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Gilden Tree ( gildentree.com ) is a Nebraska based company that specializes in foot, hand and body care products. The majority of their ingredients are Certified Organic or Wild-crafted and the products are effective and delightful to use. The Company originated in 1990 in Pakistan and was from the very beginning committed to environmental and ethical practices. In Pakistan, they employ village women who hand-produce the products. Wanting to give something back to the community, Gilden Tree began paying for the education of their employees’ children, and later for the education of the women themselves. The idea of providing the education  to the kids in Pakistan attracted a lot of media attention that boosted the sales over 25% and greatly benefited to the business growth. What is your CSR story? More Free resources on Social Responsibility

Costa is the UK’s largest and fastest growing coffee shop brand with over 1300 coffee shops across the UK and more than 600 internationally.  Costa is passionate about being a responsible business. 100% of the coffee they use comes from sustainably grown beans sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms. As a part of their commitment to reducing environmental impact, Costa set a goal to reduce carbon emissions by 25% by 2017 . The adoption the ISO 50001:2011 - Energy Management standard allowed Costa to reduce their carbon emissions by 32 % and increase and expand their operations without building a new site ( an estimated of 150,000 GBP in savings) Costa's story about how NQA certification to ISO 50001   let them to win new business, reduce energy consumption, maintain quality and save money. The Energy Management Good Practices set by Costa: 1. Go beyond obvious and look at all Processes and Procedures to identify opportunities for achieving eff...

Litecontrol is a Massachusetts based company that provides commercial and educational lighting products. In over 75 years the Company evolved from the early innovations in wall/slot lighting, to today's advanced LED fixtures. As the biggest environmental impact of lighting is the energy used during operation, Litecontrol designs their fixtures with the latest optical and thermal techniques to achieve 85-95% efficiency ratings that allow saving energy. LiteCycle wiring, developed exclusively for Litecontrol , eliminates the PVC-based wiring material used by other manufacturers.  A broad view of what constitutes a quality product and a quality lighting manufacturer brought Litecontrol to earn the lighting industry's first Cradle to Cradle Silver Certification for all products manufactured in Plympton, MA factories in 2008. Cradle to Cradle is the leading "green" certification program using a multi-criteria approach to address product design and ma...

Starbucks Coffee Company started in Seattle, WA, in 1971. Today it has over 17000 stores in over 30 countries, and growing. Starbucks is committed to buying and serving high-quality coffee that is responsibly grown and ethically traded. In 2001 Starbucks in conjunction with Conservation International developed socially responsible coffee buying guidelines called C.A.F.E. Practices (Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices) that contained 28 specific indicators five focus areas: product quality, economic accountability (transparency), social responsibility, environmental leadership in coffee growing and environmental leadership in coffee processing. As a result, 93 %  of coffee was ' ethically sourced ' in 2012. Watch the video and find out how Starbucks builds sustainable relationship with it's suppliers by making investments that benefit coffee producers, their families and communities, and the natural environment. More case studies in our Social Responsi...