the owner’s money, and also granted a minority grant in the amount of $25, 000. The overall costs

Primark, an Irish clothing retailer company was set up and headquartered in Dublin in 1969. Nowadays, there are over 250 stores across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe and the United States. Moreover, Primark operates with about 700 suppliers in China, India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Eastern Europe. Primark takes corporate social responsibility for the shareholders, owners, customers, suppliers as well as employees. Corporate social responsibility is that a company not only creates profits for the shareholders, but also undertakes the social responsibility for customers, employees and environment, including complying with business ethics, rights of workers and the rules of environmental protection. In order to develop continuously, corporate social responsibility plays an significant role in a company, which drives stakeholders have reliance on the company. This essay focuses on the ways in which Primark taking its duty to society and the ways in which the company should have done better.

Admittedly, more and more brands and retailers are taking action to respond to the ethical and sustainable issues. From the consumer side, there is an apparent growth of ethical purchase. Kate Spade, as an American luxury fashion brand, undergoes ethical enhancements of its manufacturing process in Africa. However, instead of transforming this approach into a charitable purpose, Kate Spade chooses to retain its high-quality standard and beautiful products to attract customers . This report will first focus on the elements Kate Spade practically supports in Africa, then review the performances of their program, using a comparable retailer’s moral action as a comparison. We will eventually conclude by examining the positive and negative impacts of such a policy for Kate Spade.

Target has suggested that its vendors create special products or prevent price comparisons to help decrease consumer show-rooming (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). Pressure of this sort could create opportunities for vendors to participate in unethical practices and could create a negative image for Target (McKay, Nitsch, & Peters, 2015). Although laws, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are basic frameworks that business operations must comply with, there is no guideline that businesses have to follow when making business decisions. Furthermore, ethical behavior can be perceived by customers, investors, and society as corporate responsible while creating additional value for products or services (Kinicki et al., 2013). Target should ensure that it ethically follows all constraints of the law while considering the impacts its decisions will have on its stakeholders, and while fostering an image, responsibly by corporate.

In this report I will be talking about how my chosen organisation, which is Primark, uses ethical issues to consider in its every day operational activities. Primark may not have some ethical issues that I will be discussing about in this report, but I will talk in detail about how they could use them, issues in their business. I will be explaining how Primark’s way of selling affects ethical issues and will be discussing about the things they need to be aware of whilst selling their clothes.

Kohl’s Department Stores has expanded its commitment to supply chain sustainability in 2012 to include analysis of 50 private brand vendors, as well as the company’s top 325 national brand vendors, which represents approximately 90 percent of the company’s merchandise spend. The company also surveyed 38 non-merchandise business partners in the areas of transportation and consumables, according to its newly released 2012 corporate social responsibility report. Kohl’s leverages these scores in key areas of sustainability to foster consistent dialogue and education and to help vendors establish their own programs and commitments.

I decided to do my research at Lowe’s Home and Improvement. Lowe’s Home and Improvement is a hardware store that sales everything from your basic household appliances to minor cleaning supplies. Lowe’s believes that in order to maintain great customer service they feel that they must follow these simple rules: Provide customers with environmentally-responsible products, packaging and services at everyday low prices, educate and engage employees, customers and others on the importance of conserving resources, reducing waste and recycling, review and communicate progress made toward achieving established goals and objectives, and to engage on public policy issues related to sustainability. In this report I will discuss how I observed two

Nordstrom has continued to improve their dedication to the environment, steps such as: reducing carbon dioxide released into the air, using organic cottons and investing time and money into the discovery of more sustainable fabric clarification. Although many of these steps may seem like obvious choices so many large companies are still struggling to make the leap nordstrom has shown in these areas. The hunt for more sustainable fabrics is in hopes to lower the unlawfully logged forests and continue to encourage other brands, which they outsource from to be aware of how and where their fabric materials are made. The ethical decision to improve their own environmental practices and inspire other brands to do the same shows they care about the recent changes in society and are willing to form to these

4) Overwaitea Food Group is one of the biggest retailer and wholesaler in Canada and its total sales for 2014 were approximately $4.1 U.S billion (insert citation). Even though it is very hard to quantify the outcome of Overwaitea’s commitment toward moral standard on its profitability separately as there could be several other external and internal factors, which should be affecting its profitability. However, Overwaitea’s commitment toward moral standard must be one of the main cause toward its profitability. Overwaitea is seeing a continuous sustainability in sales and profit. The corporation was ranked number 38 in Top 75 North American Food Retailers and Wholesalers for 2015 and was ranked 39th, 42nd and 42nd for 2014, 2013 and 2012 respectively

Accordingly, a store’s image is affected by store brands and loyalty to a store is increased by a store brands’ quality (Kremer & Viot, 2012). In addition, stores must maintain a positive store image in consumers’ minds in order to decrease the perceived risks of store brands (Delgado-Ballester, Hernandez-Espallardo, & Rodriguez-Orejuela, 2014). In order to increase image and loyalty among consumers and elevate the opinion of its store brands, Target could expand its offerings by adding a line of green products (Kotler & Armstrong, 2014, p. 264). Florence Kremer and Catherine Viot determined, “when consumers notice that store brands are committed to respecting the environment or satisfying their needs, the retailer's image is improved” (Kremer & Viot, 2012). Green, natural, ecological, ethical, fairtrade, and organic sums up the growing trend in products such as household cleaners, personal care products, baby products and even pet products.

Are you more likely to purchase a product from a company with a strong commitment to sustainability? Although I admit that I don’t shop based on a

Demand depends on the Economy - Consumers buy more clothing when they have more disposable income and the economy is healthy. Under recessionary conditions, clothing stores sales can slow significantly. Economic factors that drive consumer spending, including personal income, consumer confidence, and credit availability, affect demand. When money is tight, consumers often cut discretionary purchases, including clothing and accessories.

The Invisible Impacts of Wal-mart “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business,” said Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company (qtd. in “Remember”). This famous quote is a reminder for every business to commit moral business practices if they wish to achieve productivity and long-term success. Meanwhile, business should contribute to the community and its people rather than insisting on making money at any cost. Sooner or later, the consumers will figure out about unethical practices that one is trying to hide, and then losing business is unavoidable.

In the business world, companies compete for the lowest price because they want consumers to purchase their products. If consumers buy them, corporations generate money. Companies don’t care about the methods to obtain the lowest retail price for their products. They will do it even if it means that companies have to degrade working condition, paying worker less, or even ignoring regulation and unloading harmful waste straight into the environment. However, in recent times, more and more people are joining the “conscious consumerism” movement. People start to favor products and companies that are environmentally and socially friendly. This also propels the idea of “conscious capitalism”, which when companies choose to follow a path that can bring benefits to both the people and the environment. Some companies respond to conscious consumerism by producing more environmentally friendly products, while others respond by “greenwashing” their products and themselves. “Greenwashing” is when Companies start to shine their spotlight on their green side and hide their destructive and unpleasant side. Greenwashing is an easy way for the companies to associate themselves with an image of environmentally responsible and “conscious capitalism”. However, companies shouldn’t be allowed to “greenwash” their products because it prevents conscious consumerism from moving forward and harms the environment even more.

Private enterprises are considered to be key actors in achieving sustainable development in Denmark.[iv] Therefore it is essential that companies take an active part in the efforts to improve the environment and contribute to green industrial development. A large number of companies in Denmark, thus, are sustainable and ethical and have high ranks among sustainable companies all over the world, like Danisco, Chr. Hansen Holding and tec. Many of the sustainable companies have products in traditional grocery stores, which are the biggest competitors of Trader Joe’s. Meanwhile, some local food factories and restaurants in Denmark are also very big competitors for Trader Joe’s, even though they may not serve food with very ethical resources. Such companies like Danish

In today’s society, ethical consumerism can be seen as a significant way of thinking about the responsibilities individuals take in respect to ‘’fair trade and ‘’eco friendly’’ products. The study of (Chris Arnot, Et al) also shows that fair trade products represent a large and rowing market sector world wide. Marks and Spencer has also taken interest in ethical in the environment when reporting their performance as they