Showing posts with label firms. Show all posts
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Best Foreign Corporations with Operations in Canada

Here is a list of the top non-Canadian corporations with operations in Canada as compiled by Corporate Knights. Corporate Knights “is a media, research and financial products company focused on quantifying and animating clean capitalism drivers for decision makers.” Corporate Knights Capital is a source for objective, data-driven ‘clean capitalism’ ratings for over 2000 companies globally.  To be on this list the companies must also “be listed on the Financial Post 500, and rank among the top 10 per cent of 4500 global companies according to the Global Sustainability Research Alliance (GSRA).” The GSRA is one of the “world’s largest sustainability research consortiums. According to GSRA and Corporate Knights the top Foreign Corporations operating in Canada:
  1. Honda Canada Inc. from Japan
  2. IBM Canada Ltd. From United States
  3. Toyota Canada Inc. from Japan
  4. Hewlett-Packard Co. from United States
  5. Nissan Canada Inc. from Japan
  6. Siemens Canada Ltd. From Germany
  7. Lafarge Canada Inc. from France
  8. RSA Canada Group from Great Britain
  9. Cisco Systems Canada Co. from United States
  10. BASF Canada from Germany
  11. Kia Canada, Inc from South Korea
  12. L’Oréal Canada Inc. from France
  13. SAP Canada Inc. from Germany
  14. Direct Energy from Great Britain
  15. Xerox Corp. Inc. from United States
  16. Johnson Controls LP from United States
  17. ING Bank of Canada from Netherlands
  18. Aviva Canada Inc. from Great Britain

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Corporate Sustainability 2012 Executive Forum

Corporate Sustainability 2012 Executive Forum is subtitled, Your Company's Secret Weapon in Winning Market Share. The event will take place on March 18 - 20, 2012 at Greenrbrier America's Resort, WV. This event pertains to how corporations and organizations can successfully increase market share, increase revenue, and maintain customer loyalty while also making a environmental difference. The executive forum is structured to educate executive officers, managers, and those decision makers involved in sustainable initiatives.

The Tangible Returns of Implementing a Sustainability Initiative:
• Preservation of Social License to operate through enhanced reputation and social capital
• New Market Opportunities
• Improved Operational Efficiencies
• Improved Investment Opportunities
• Increased Top Lines
• Reduced Costs

Designing a Sustainability Strategy- Starting Your Development of:
• Vision & Values
• Codes for Corporate Sustainability
• Economic success through sustainability
• Individual responsibility and motivation
• Safe and environmentally compatible products/technology
• Safe and efficient plants and production processes
• Treatment of business partners and market behavior
• Sustainable business processes
- Technology and knowledge transfer
• Management systems for clear responsibilities and continuous improvement
• Social Responsibility

Other Themes and Topics:
• Life Cycle Assessment: A Road Map to Guide Sustainability & Strategy Executives
• Sustainability Performance Management Systems: Building and Implementing Next Generation Tracking & Reporting
• Benefit/Flexible Corporations: The New Paradigm for Sustainable Companies
• People, Process, Products, Environment & Profits
• Galvanizing Employee Buy-In Through Top-to-Bottom and Bottom-to-Top Alignment on Your Sustainability Initiative
• Creating Closed Loops for the Birth and Continual Rebirth of the Products You Sell
• Population Growth: Pressure on our Ecosystems and Wallets
• HOT SPOTS: Locating where is your company is loosing money

5 Key Components:
• Energy
• Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency
• Alternative Energy (Investing, Information, and Opportunity)
• Localities and mutual benefits of using local energy
• Self production
• Profitable Projects
• Carbon
• Reducing output and reducing costs
• Materials
• Supply and Feasibility Concerns
• Water
• The Crucial Role and Value Water has in the Industries, Products, and Processes of the Corporate Sector
• Categorizing and Justifying current and potential Risks to not having Enough water or the Right Quality of Water for your Business
• Waste Management
• Reducing output

Target Audience
• Corporate Level Executives and decision makers
• Organizations related to: manufacturing, installations, and marketing of sustainable efforts
• Corporate Sustainability Officers, Responsibility Officers and their strategists
• Investors and Investment Firms
• Banks, lawyers and politicians involved in legislation regarding sustainability
• Transportation and Distribution Sector
• Sustainable Corporation Consultants

For more information click here.

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