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Macy's Inc. was known as Federated Department Stores until June 2007.
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Macy's Accused of Bias in Suit
Author: Bloomberg News
Macy's flagship store in Herald Square allegedly apprehended 1,600 people for shoplifting last year and 92 percent were minorities, according to an expanded lawsuit accusing Federated Department Stores Inc., owner of Macy's and other stores, of...
- Related stories: USA: Lawsuit accuses Macy's of racial discrimination in its efforts to catch shoplifters
- Related companies: Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Macy's
Broken Vows: Diamond Jewellery Retailers Fall Short on Conflict Diamond Pledge
Author: Global Witness
Major United States...and international retailers selling diamond jewellery are falling short on their promises to combat the trade in conflict diamonds...Out of 30 companies, 25 have failed to respond to Global Witness in writing about their policies...
- Related stories: New Global Witness report says diamond retailers falling short on conflict diamond pledge
- Related companies: Aber Diamond Bloomingdales (part of Macy's) Bulgari Cartier (part of Richemont) Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Fortunoff Harry Winston (part of Aber Diamond) Macy's Richemont Saks Fifth Avenue (part of Hudson's Bay) Tiffany Van Cleef & Arpels (part of Richemont) Whitehall Jewellers
full report: "Broken Vows - Exposing the 'Loupe' Holes in the Diamond Industry's Efforts to Prevent the Trade in Conflict Diamonds"
Author: Global Witness
- Related stories: New Global Witness report says diamond retailers falling short on conflict diamond pledge
- Related companies: Cartier (part of Richemont) Macy's Richemont Tiffany
New Global Witness report says diamond retailers falling short on conflict diamond pledge
Co-op America's Retailer Scorecard
Author: Co-op America
[W]e've gone around the world with eight major players in America's retail landscape, looking at recent high-profile sweatshop abuses in their factories, and we've summarized their involvement in the accompanying chart. [refers to Federated Department...
Macy's Settles Complaint of Racial Profiling for $600,000 [USA]
Author: Andrea Elliott, New York Times
Macy's has agreed to pay New York State $600,000 to settle a complaint that its New York department stores engaged in racial profiling and the unlawful handcuffing of customers detained on suspicion of shoplifting, officials said yesterday. Under the...
- Related companies: Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Macy's
Informed consumers can improve sweatshops
Author: Conrad MacKerron, Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Program at the As You Sow Foundation, in San Francisco Chronicle
Nearly a decade after concerns about the conditions in sweatshops surfaced, few companies have revealed any quantitative data about how workers in their global supply chain are treated...Gap's new report provides more hard data about its supply-chain...
- Related stories: Conrad MacKerron says Gap's frank reporting about its supply chain should be the rule not the exception - "Where is the rest of the apparel industry, as well as the toy and electronics industries?"
- Related companies: Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Gap J.C. Penney Macy's Nike Sears Target Walmart
USA: Survey lists "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" - top 5 are Verizon, Con Edison, Coca-Cola, Health Care Service, HBO
[full list] The 2006 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
Author: DiversityInc [USA]
1. Verizon Communications/Wireless 2. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York 3. The Coca-Cola Co. 4. Health Care Service Corp. 5. HBO [part of Time Warner] 6. PricewaterhouseCoopers 7. Turner Broadcasting [part of Time Warner] 8. Abbott 9. BellSouth 10....
- Related stories: USA: Survey lists "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" - top 5 are Verizon, Con Edison, Coca-Cola, Health Care Service, HBO
- Related companies: Abbott Laboratories Allstate Altria American Express AT&T Bank of America Bausch & Lomb BellSouth (now AT&T) Bloomingdales (part of Macy's) Citigroup Coca-Cola Colgate-Palmolive Comerica Con Edison Cox Communications (part of Cox Enterprises) Cox Enterprises DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler) Darden Restaurants Ernst & Young Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Ford HBO (part of Time Warner) HP (Hewlett-Packard) HSBC IKON Kaiser Permanente Kraft Foods Macy's Marriott Merck Merrill Lynch (part of Bank of America) MGM Resorts Novartis PepsiCo Prudential Financial SC Johnson Sempra Energy Sodexo Sprint Nextel Starbucks Starwood Hotels SunTrust Banks Time Warner Toyota Turner Broadcasting (part of Time Warner) Verizon Wachovia (part of Wells Fargo) Wellpoint Wells Fargo