Sara Lee
Headquarters in USA
Sara Lee website: www.saralee.com
Sara Lee spun off its apparel business, including its Hanes, Champion & Playtex brands, as Hanesbrands, in September 2006.
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Country's Top Undergarment Brand Vows No More Business in Burma
Author: Free Burma Coalition
Sara Lee joins Wal-Mart, Costco, Perry Ellis, Fila, Family Dollar in string of Burma cut-offs: Sara Lee, a top seller of intimate apparel in the United States with nearly $17.5 billion dollars in annual revenues and owner of Hanes, Hanes Her Way,...
- Related companies: Costco Fila Hanes (part of Hanesbrands) Perry Ellis Sara Lee Walmart
Corporations Behaving Badly: The Ten Worst Corporations of 2001
Author: Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor
[Abbott Laboratories, Argenbright Security, Bayer, Coca Cola, Enron, ExxonMobil, Philip Morris, Sara Lee, Southern Co. and Wal-Mart]
Activists Press Burma Campaign: More Companies Agree That Labor Conditions Are Oppressive
Author: Kirstin Downey Grimsley, Washington Post
A group called the Free Burma Coalition...has persuaded more than two dozen American corporations [including Ames Department Stores Inc., Jones Apparel Group, Sara Lee Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc., TJX Cos. which operates T.J. Maxx stores, and...
- Related companies: Jones Group Nautica (part of VF Corp) Sara Lee TJX
Sara Lee agrees to pay dlrs 3.5 million in settlement with black workers [USA]
Author: Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press
Sara Lee Foods Corp. has agreed to pay dlrs 3.5 million to 139 black employees who complained of racial harassment and retaliation at a hot-dog plant that closed last year.
- Related companies: Sara Lee
Coffee companies under fire as millions face ruin
Author: Oxfam
Millions of people in 45 coffee-growing countries are facing economic ruin - and many are going hungry - due to collapsing world prices. Oxfam today launches a global campaign to tackle the coffee crisis and force the corporate giants who dominate the...
US urged to wake up to "coffee with a conscience"
Author: Ros Davidson, Reuters
...fair trade beans are slowly making inroads into some of America's favourite coffee emporiums, with them being sold in some 10,000 outlets nationally including retailers such as Starbucks, the world's largest speciality coffee company, the...
- Related companies: Safeway (USA) Sara Lee Starbucks
Company Policies for EEO [Equal Employment Opportunities] in Textiles, Clothing and Leather Manufacturing
Author: International Labour Organization
[The Bata Shoe Organization, Courtaulds, Irvin Aerospace Canada Limited, Sara Lee]
company website: Sara Lee
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Coffee-makers' huge profits leave a bitter taste
Author: Stathi Paxinos, The Age [Australia]
Aid and fair trade organisations accuse the world's major coffee roasters of making huge profits out of impoverished growers in developing countries, whose returns are a fraction of retail prices. They say the price paid for green coffee is so low...
- Related companies: Altria Folgers (part of Procter & Gamble) Kraft Foods Nestlé Procter & Gamble Sara Lee
Earthgrains to Pay $5.25 Million Penalty and Phase Out Refrigerants that Damage Ozone Layer [USA]
Author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The settlement requires Earthgrains [now owned by Sara Lee Corp.] to pay a $5.25 million civil penalty for having committed the largest ever corporate-wide violations of stratospheric ozone protection regulations.
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