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Brands

Defining Natural Beauty

Learn how Burt’s Bees is advocating for clear and consistent guidelines for natural personal care labeling.

Corporate Responsibility

On the Front Lines of Ingredient Transparency

Clorox continues to be on the front lines of ingredient transparency — and not just because it’s required or good for business but because it's the right thing to do.

Corporate Responsibility

Building Sustainable Bridges — in Partnership

At AIM-PROGRESS, working with peer companies, discovering ruby chocolate and attending a Braves game at Wrigley Field are all in a day’s work.

Corporate Responsibility

Making What’s Inside — and Now What’s Outside — Count

We’ve committed to go beyond the ingredient labeling that will be required under the new California Cleaning Product Right to Know law.

Corporate Responsibility

Burt’s Bees Helps Industry Group Drive Sustainability in Products, Packaging

The natural personal care brand worked with competitors, retailers and NGOs to create a common rating system for beauty and personal care products.

Corporate Responsibility

EPA Names Clorox Partner of the Year

Clorox is an Environmental Protection Agency Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award winner for a second year running.

Brands

Making a Safer Choice

Clorox receives EPA's Safer Choice Partner of the Year award.

Communication

Formalizing a CR Strategy Can Help Dial Up Peformance

The following is an excerpt from a chapter Kathryn Caulfield wrote for "Driving Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR Leaders on Strategies for Increasing Profit and Sustainable Business." Kathryn is vice president of Global Corporate Communications & Corporate Responsibility for Clorox. In 2013, ExecRank named Kathryn a Top Communications Executive for 2012. Corporate responsibility has been at the core of our company since its founding in 1913; it is part of our DNA and rests on a set of core values that guide us in everything we do. The trust that has come with that is a foundation on which we have grown our business for one…

Company

Burt’s Bees Social Responsibility Report Takes Lessons from Bees

This post was written by Paula Alexander, director of Sustainable Business for Burt’s Bees and president of the Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation. Authenticity, transparency and sustainability are important strands of the Burt’s Bees brand DNA. We bring this to life through the “% natural” indicator on our labels and through our Sustainability Report. On June 24, Burt’s Bees released its last corporate social responsibility report. Because our official data and reporting is now covered by the award-winning Clorox integrated report, we have fewer constraints on our reporting format and can focus on our progress against goals, our strategic priorities and what’s…

Communication

Report Card on Our Annual Report

Recently, we asked for feedback on our annual report from some of our stakeholders, including analysts, NGOs, bloggers, media and opinion leaders. It was an anonymous survey, unless the person choose to share their information, and here's some of what they had to say. Most rated the report -- which combines our financial and our environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance -- as "excellent,” a smaller group as “average” and one person as “poor” compared to other integrated reports. (We didn't like seeing the "poor," but some of the commentary helped us guess the thought and context behind the rating.) …

Company

Enduring Value: Our FY12 Annual Report

There's a yellow hazard sign that someone posted near my door that reads "Caution: Annual Report Under Construction."  I don't have bumper stickers on my car, wear pins on my bags or (typically) post signs in my window, but after months of "building" our annual report, that sign felt very apt. Today, after toasting a cold one last night, I happily removed the sign and can now point people to our FY12 Annual Report: Enduring Value – Our Financial, Environmental, Social and Governance Performance. A few things about this report:…
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