Karina/special issue 03 interfacing the law
4 MAY
Unilever
https://www.unilever.com/legal.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever
"Unilever is organised into four main divisions: Personal Care (production and sale of skin care and hair care products, deodorants and oral care products); Foods (production and sale of soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, margarines and spreads); Refreshment (production and sale of ice cream, tea-based beverages, weight-management products and nutritionally enhanced staples sold in developing markets); and Home Care (production and sale of home care products including powders, liquids and capsules, soap bars and other cleaning products).[78] In the financial year ended 31 December 2013, Unilever had a total turnover of €49.797 billion of which 36% was from Personal Care, 27% from Foods, 19% from Refreshment and 18% from Home Care. Unilever invested a total of €1.04 billion in research and development in 2013.
Unilever is one of the largest media buyers in the world, and invested around €6 billion (US$8 billion) in advertising and promotion in 2010."
Products - 13 $1 billion brands
- Axe
- Dove
- Heartbrand
- Hellmann’s
- Knorr
- Lipton
- Lux
- Magnum
- Omo
- Rama
- Rexona
- Sunsilk
- Surf
Lipton Tea
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1073495-d3655567-Reviews-Lipton_s_Seat-Haputale_Uva_Province.html
Anual Report 2015
https://www.unilever.com/Images/annual_report_and_accounts_ar15_tcm244-478426_en.pdf
More reports
https://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/sustainable-living-news/reports-and-publications/index.html
Bad press
Former manager sues Unilever over ‘illegal’ sacking (Daily Nation, June 2012)
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Former-manager-sues-Unilever-over-illegal-sacking-/1056-1431282-ei34nh/index.html
Atwoli: dismissal of Unilever tea workers illegal (3 years ago)
http://www.hivisasa.com/posts/3912
"The court heard that the Kericho-based tea company dismissed a group of workers on diverse dates between November 2013 and April 2014 on allegations of violating a document termed as Code of Business Principles... The Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union on Thursday moved to the industrial court to stop the eviction orders by the tea company claiming the code of business principles was not brought to the attention of the employees."
Unilever Code of Business Principles
https://www.unilever.co.uk/Images/4394-cobp-code-policies-booklet-external.v12_tcm1252-409220_en.pdf
Unilever admits toxic dumping: will clean up but not come clean (Greenpeace, June 2001)
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/unilever-admits-toxic-dumping-will-clean-up-but-not-come-clean
"The company has also agreed to undertake a clean-up of 5.3 tons of mercury wastes it illegally dumped at a local scrapyard, but it is still refusing to accept that local people and workers at the factory in Kodiakanal may have been exposed to the highly toxic metal."
Tesco and Unilever fail test (The Guardian, January 2005)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/jan/29/supermarkets.unilever
Ethical Consumer Information Systems
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/shoppingethically/ourethicalratings/environment.aspx#pollution
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/portals/0/downloads/categoriesa4.pdf
Ethical Consumer Research Association
http://www.corporatecritic.org/info/rr/ethiscore.aspx
http://www.corporatecritic.org/categories.aspx
11 APRIL
good site if you want to use a site without making a login. check whether it also works for websites discussed on 10/04
http://bugmenot.com
10 APRIL
pzi pad
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/ifl.hnimeeting_100417
evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/be246973-d2c6-4610-9b59-14fdeeca02ff/cf92fe33ff257154f038298668861bc6
Balázs Bodó - Libraries in the post-scarcity era
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2341818/162448_Libraries_in_the_post_scarcity_era.pdf