Is Corporate Social Responsibility here to stay?
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About the video: ‘Is Corporate Social Responsibility here to stay?’
In a climate of increased consumer awareness and public scrutiny, reputation and brand image have never been more critical to the fortunes of multinational corporations. As a result, many are looking for business models that allow them to improve the social and natural environment in which they operate without hurting profits. Fair trade is one such model. Paul Rice analyses the burgeoning success of initiatives related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and assesses the impact fair trade has made in the market place.
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Filmed: San Francisco, USA on 27 March 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Paul Rice
Paul Rice is President and CEO of TransFair USA, the only Fair Trade certifier in the United States.
TransFair has developed business partnerships with over 650 US companies (including such leading brands as Starbucks, P&G, Green Mountain and Dunkin’ Donuts), launched Fair Trade coffee into 50,000 retail outlets nationwide, certified over 160 million pounds of Fair Trade coffee.
In 2000 Paul Rice has received the Ashoka Fellowship for his pioneering work in fair trade and in 2002 he was named by the Klaus Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as one of the world’s top 40 Social Entrepreneurs. He has authored several publications including “Sustainable Coffee at the Crossroads” (1999).
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