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Below is some of GoodCorporation’s recent press coverage. For hard copies, or the full press cuttings pack, please click on Media contact details.

Financial Times, 7 July 2004: In the Special Report Business in the Community Awards (7 July 2004) the FT quotes Leo Martin extensively on the CSR performance of SMEs based on an analysis of data from over 100 verifications conducted by GoodCorporation. "When it comes to actual CSR performance, smaller seems to be more responsible."
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Trust: Make your workforce believe in you
Financial Times - June 2008
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Ethics: rhetoric and reality
Don't be fooled by the growing number of CSR reports
Accountancy Age - May 2008
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By Invitation: Consumer finance: Banks to learn principles of fairness
Ethical Corporation - May 2008
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One Third of Employees Think Bosses are Unfair - Guardian, November 2007
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UK business directors urged to improve relationship with employees -
Cripps Sears & Partners
, November 2007
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which is the Fairest Sector of Them All?
GoodCorporation press release November 2007
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Many employers considered 'unfair' - Training Zone, November 2007
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Third of UK workers think boss is unfair - HR Review, November 2007
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Many employers considered 'unfair' - HR Zone News, November 2007
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Eight out of 10 UK employees do not trust their manager - Personnel Today , November 2007
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Not a Fair Trade - Management Today, November 2007
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HR Network Employment News, Pinsent Masons November 2007
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Platinum performance must shine all the way through, Ethical Performance October 2007
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Burma: Sanctions are not the solution, New Statesman October 2007
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London tops the polll: Observations on corruption, New Statesman October 2007
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Speaking Out - Corporate Citizenship Briefing , August / September 2007
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Adnams Ethics receives praise, EDP August 2007
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Good Practice Award for Adnams , EADT August 2007
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BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, 6 February 2006
Leo Martin of GoodCorporation comments on BP’s corporate responsibility performance.

BBC 5 Live, Wake up to Money, 6 February 2006
Leo Martin of GoodCorporation comments on BP’s corporate responsibility performance.

Ethical Performance, February 2006
Report on GoodCorporation’s first five years of assessment.

Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 91, December 2006/January 2007
Article about GoodCorporation’s first five years of assessment.

Ethical Performance, Volume 8 December 2006 issue. Guest column by Lisa Buchan discusses whether football clubs need to reassess gambling links.
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Financial Times, 20 September 2006: BP battles to clear its Augean stables. Leo Martin, director of GoodCorporation is quoted. View the article (subscription required).

Springer Publications, 5 July 2006: Management Models for Corporate Social Responsibility. This book includes a chapter on the GoodCorporation Standard and assessment
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Corporate Citizenship Briefing, Issue 88 June/July 2006: Speaking out: the risks and rewards of casino-led regeneratio. Lisa Buchan examines the link between corporate responsibility and regeneration prompted by changes in gambling law.
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egaming review, Issue 26 May 2006: E is for Ethics. Lisa Buchan discusses the social cost of the e-gaming boom. View the article in a new window (PDF format).

Sunday Times, 7 May 2006: Companies that Count - ARM is committed to the GoodCorporation Standard View the article (PDF document).

HRzone, 20 December 2005: 2005 - the year in CSR View the news story (external web site opens in new window - site registration required).

HRzone, 23 November 2005: CSR and beyond: When I'm 65 or will that be 67? View the news story (external web site opens in new window - site registration required).

Ethical Performance, September 2005: GoodCorporation expands into Ireland in partnership with A&L Goodbody Consulting Dublin. View the news story (external web site opens in new window - site registration required).

Financial Times, 24 August 2005: British Airways' lesson on how not to outsource. To read the article, which mentions GoodCorporation as an assessor of responsible practices click here (external web site opens in new window - subscription required to view full article).

Best Practice: Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Plus August 2005
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RTE online, 21 July 2005: Group to look at social standards. GoodCorporation launches in Ireland. View the news story (external web site opens in new window).

CSR and beyond: Doing "good" with HR, HR Zone May 2005
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HRzone, 25 May 2005: Corporate Manslaughter - an end to getting away with murder? View the news story (external web site opens in new window - site registration required).

CSR and beyond: the Pope, the EU and the Election, HR Zone April 2005
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Ethical Performance, March 2005: Review by Peter Mason of Corporate Social Responsibility: From Principles to Profit, mentions GoodCorporation’s involvement in the production of this BBC Business Learning pack. Published in Ethical Performance, March 2005, and reproduced here as a PDF download with kind permission. View the article (PDF document).

People Management, p10, 27 January 2005: Review by Mike Emmott of Corporate Social Responsibility: From Principles to Profit, mentions GoodCorporation’s involvement. Originally published in People Management on 27 January 2005 and reproduced with permission. View the article (PDF format).

The Marketer, Issue 9, January 2005: Mean what you say by Jane Bainbridge, quotes Lisa Buchan.

Corporate Responsibility Management, Vol. I, Issue 2, p10, October/November: What the UK’s OFR will mean for voluntary CR reporting by Michael Littlechild.

Corporate Responsibility Management, Vol. I, Issue 2, p34, October/November: Measuring responsibility with stakeholder interviews by Leo Martin.

Financial Times, 7 July 2004: In the Special Report Business in the Community Awards (7 July 2004) the FT quotes Leo Martin extensively on the CSR performance of SMEs based on an analysis of data from over 100 verifications conducted by GoodCorporation. "When it comes to actual CSR performance, smaller seems to be more responsible."

Ethical Performance, July 2004: Verification analysis suggests size doesn’t matter

Financial Times, 11 May 2004: Time to strengthen the protection of small investors

Financial Times, 29 April 2004: Investors are right to push for CSR

Ethical Performance, February 2004: Central Europe receives assistance

CSRwire, 18 December 2003: CEILE launches values based leadership training and CSR verification service in Hungary

Budapest Business Journal, 1 December 2003: Decent Money

Corporate Citizenship Briefing, November 2003: How to be good

Manifest, November 2003: Group aims to set standard for corporate social responsibility

Ethical Performance, October 2003: Three-year-old CSR standard gets an update

Ethical Performance, September 2003: Tick Box CSR "not all bad"

Global Finance Magazine, August 2003: Shaping Up

Ethical Corporation, August 2003: GoodCorporation standard to be updated

The Guardian, July 2003: Ethics come before profits

Ethical Corporation, July 2003: UK Radio Group becomes a GoodCorporation

People Management, July 2003: Hooked on Ethics

Corporate citizenship Briefing, June/July 2003: Ethical supply policy

Energy Intelligence, June 2003: Total makeover

Ethical Performance, May 2003: TotalFinaElf

Burmanet News, April 2003: TotalFinaElf to undergo ethics review

Caterer News, April 2003: Queens award for Seaview hotel

Financial Times, April 2003: Lord Sharman to join Securicor

Financial Times, April 2003: Total launches review of corporate ethics

L'Express, April 2003: Totalement communiquant

Ethical Corporation, January 2003: Complying with the ABI guidelines on social responsibility

Marketing Week, November 2002: Blowing your own trumpet