Best Practice & Ethics
100 Best Corporate Citizens
Green
Mountain Coffee Roasters has retained its position at the top of
CRO magazine’s annual list of the
100 Best Corporate Citizens
– the first time in the US list’s eight year history a company has held
this place for two consecutive years. Green Mountain is a major supplier
of Fairtrade organic coffee – which pays coffee growers a guaranteed
minimum floor price for their crops.
Sharing the top ten with Green Mountain were
companies such as IBM,
Timberland and
Motorola.
CRO found the top 100 to be dominated by companies
increasingly focusing on sustainability and climate change. Among the top
10 companies were eight members of the US
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) green power partnership.
Four are EPA climate leaders, working with the government on strategies
to address global warming.
Michael Connor, CRO editor, said the 100 Best
Companies are distinguished from their peers by their combining of strong
financial performance with responsible social and environmental
practices.
Links
Green Mountain Coffee
Roasters
CRO magazine
100 Best Corporate
Citizens
IBM
Timberland
Motorola
US Environmental Protection Agency
March 2007 |
