Wednesday, May 02, 2007

How far do you go?

It's all very well being an ethical company, treating your staff well and buying fairtrade pencil holders. But what about the people you do business with, how ethical are they? How much do you know about the people who supply your paper, where do they get it from?

What with multinationals masquerading behind smaller ethical companies (Cadbury's - Green and Blacks) and ethical companies supplying global corporations (Innocent Drinks - Mcdonald's); it can be a moral minefield. We recently had the dilemma of a potential client who was involved in supporting the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In the end, we felt we had to say 'no'. What would you do?

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