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Top marks for excellence

RESPONSIBLE business practice is big with businesses in the North-East, as was evident at Business in the Community's North East Awards for Excellence gala dinner, held on Thursday at the Civic Centre, Newcastle. Read

'Fluffy stuff' now seen as the route to profits

IT wasn't too long ago that whenever I mentioned the term 'CSR', people would immediately sneer and mutter cynically about 'window dressing' or rant on about how 'proper' businesses shouldn't concern themselves with such fluffy stuff Read

Doing their bit for our communities

Erimus Futures is a well established 10-week citizenship course run in primary schools across Middlesbrough to year-six pupils. Read

Community plans in store

WITH annual sales of £6.4bn and 68,000 employees, known as partners, John Lewis is the UK’s largest employee-owned business. Read

Technology for the future

ESTABLISHED 200 years ago and now a FTSE-100 company, Johnson Matthey is a speciality chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysts, precious metals and fine chemicals. Read

Royal Mail aims to deliver

FOR Royal Mail Group, corporate social responsibility means doing the right thing for its people, its business and the communities in which it operates. Read

Helping to boost the image of our region

THE North-East is proud of its thriving business culture and, as the regional development agency, One NorthEast wants to play its part in inspiring, challenging, engaging and supporting it. Read

Important steps to reducing a carbon footprint

ONE of the biggest current issues in the arena of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is carbon off-setting. It’s rarely out of the news, but it’s not just about rock stars planting trees to offset the air mile emissions they’ve notched up during world tours. Read