Corporate Sustainability: A Progress Report In cooperation with Corporate Sustainability Definition & Survey Methodology Corporate Sustainability: A Progress Report is a ’KPMG’s Climate Change & Sustainability Services practice’ research paper‚ conducted in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit. It reviews the importance of sustainability within business today and executive’s attitudes toward this issue. For the purpose of the report‚ corporate sustainability is defined as “adopting
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Executive summary More corporations tend to apply sustainability into their business operations. Woolworths as an Australian retail company‚ also add more emphasis on sustainable development. This report shows the reason why Woolworths take sustainable strategies in global business context for further development in the future. Firstly‚ the report offers a brief description for the background of Woolworths and presents the definition for sustainability. With the development of globalization‚ environmental
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COPPER MINE DISPUTE: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CONSIDERATION Prepared for Myanmar Holding Company Table of content Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Background 4 3. Issues and Problems 4 3.1 Social cost of local community 4 3.2 Environmental cost 5 3.3 Lack of transparency 5 4. Discussion 5
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Introduction Trend towards triple bottom line reporting is undisputed. Especially for many public corporates‚ there is always a separate sustainability reporting when releasing the annual reports. For small and medium businesses‚ there is also information about social and environmental effects in annual reports‚ provided to stakeholders. But there are still many challenges‚ which impede businesses addressing triple bottom line reporting. This essay will briefly discuss the major challenges of triple
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1.1 What is Sustainability The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987‚ in Gareis et al. 2010‚ p. 2) defines sustainability as the development that conforms to the needs of the present without making or willing to make concessions on the ability of future generations in order to meet their own wants and needs. In a different concept‚ sustainability has lately turned out to be a corporate yet societal concept (Gareis et al.‚ 2010). Corporate sustainability has different
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the judicial obligation‚ Billabong International Limited appointed Pricewaterhouse Coopers as their audit firm. PWC is a London based multinational company known for its Professional Services. As an audit firm for Billabong‚ Pricewaterhouse reviews the company’s accounting statements and determines the company’s financial position. The lead auditor for Billabong is Steven Bosiljevac. Steven Bosiljevac is a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. (Billabong Financial Report‚ 2013: 43) Answer 8
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Billabong’s Recent Nose Dive Billabong is a popular Australian company whose business includes surf‚ skate‚ snow‚ sports apparel‚ accessories‚ and hardware. The company started in 1973 in Gold Coast‚ Queensland‚ Australia and through their four decades of business they have established brands such as Element‚ Von Zipper‚ Honolua Surf Company‚ Kustom‚ Palmers Surf‚ Xcel‚ Tigerlily‚ Sector 9‚ DaKine‚ and RVCA brand names. In 2008‚ the company witnessed peaking numbers with profits of $158 million
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Billabong was founded in the Gold Coast‚ Queensland‚ Australia in 1973 by Gordon Merchant. At first‚ he designed and created the board shorts at his home and then sold them to local surf shops. Surfers soon realized the durability of Merchant’s board shorts that was the result of his triple-stitching technique. Merchant understood that his company needed to expand to achieve success‚ so Billabong started to sponsor contests—these contests increased the public’s awareness of Merchant’s products and
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Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Chapter 1: Company Profile – Billabong International Ltd 3 1.1 Overview of Billabong 3 1.2 Financial Analysis 3 Chapter 2: Identification and evaluation of Billabong’s global strategy 4 - 7 2.1 4 P’s 4 - 5 2.1.1 Product 4 2.1.2 Promotion 4 2.1.3 Price 5 2.1.4 Place 5 2.2 SWOT Analysis 6 2.3 Current Target Market 7 2.4 Reasons for Billabong’s international expansion 7 Chapter 3: Identification and evaluation of the external environment
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Billabong is Australia’s largest surfware manufacturer which generates a revenue of $680 million. In 2000 Billabong was listen among Australia 200 largest companies. Billabong started to expand in 1983 in order to gain international market and creating a global identity. In year 1985 and 1987 it expanded its business in NewZeland and France respectively. Billabong last CEO was Launa Inman. And current CEO is Neil Fisk. Now it has retail stores and manufacturers in East Asia. Billabong also sells
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