Company profiles updated this month

Company profiles updated this month, by study criterion

Labor

Restructuring, relocation and outsourcing, child labor, forced labor, sexual or racial discrimination, anti-union practices, salaries below living wage, violation of the maximum working hour in the industry. [?] list 2007

Agriculture: Chiquita Brands International Inc.

Automotive & transport: Ford Motor Co.

Banking: Citigroup Inc. , Merrill Lynch & Co.

Chemicals: Clariant Ltd

, Rhodia SA

Telecommunications equipment: Qwest Communications International Inc.

Metals & mining: ArcelorMittal : ArcelorMittal will sub-contract in India the maintenance of its software, a volume of work of approximately 350 full equivalent-times currently carried out with the Benelux countries, in France and Europe of the South.
Evraz Holding

Postal services: TNT Post Groep

Transportation services: Delta Air Lines, Inc

Financial services: Deutsche Borse AG

Computer services: EDS Corp. (Electronic Data Systems)

Apparel: New Man

Environmental impact

Tanker wreck, explosion on a refinery, hazardous product spill or emission, asbestos, contamination with genetically modified organisms, with bacteria (listeria, salmonella), hidden secondary effects of drugs... [?] list 2007

Food: Cargill Inc : Cargill Inc. will pay a $100,000 civil penalty for pollution from the company’s biodiesel refinery in Iowa Falls. Cargill discharged its sludge into the Iowa Falls city treatment plant. During parts of 2005 through 2007, pollutants in the sludge were at enough levels to exceed the limits of the treatment plant.

Energy & water: Enbridge , Total SA

Apparel: Reebok International Ltd.

Delinquency

Accounting fraud to inflate profits and stock value, mislead shareholders or avoid tax, market sharing with competitors to sell at a higher price, IPO fraud, audit errors... [?] list 2007

Banking: Banque Cantonale de Genève Citigroup Inc.

Electronics: Motorola Inc.

Energy & water: Halliburton Co.

Financial services: Julius Baer : Rudolf Elmer, which was dismissed of its post of director of the subsidiary company of Julius Bär in the Cayman Islands, shows the Swiss bank to manage "billion" in this tax haven the Caribbean and to box the profits in Switzerland by dissimulating it with the Swiss authorities. The bank, specialized in the management of fortune for very easy customers, holds according to Mr. Elmer "a double accountancy". In certain documents, the subsidiary company of the Caiman is mentioned like controlling transactions, but those in fact are ordered of the seat from the bank in Zurich, affirms the ex-leader, quoted by German weekly magazine DER Spiegel. The bank would have also set up at the Cayman Islands a "pseudo-company of internal insurance at the group" which would get busy to notch the Swiss tax department. Mr. Elmer shows also the financial institution to grant to certain customers fictitious loans allowing them to reduce the amount of their taxes, and to help of the administrators of goods to box their commissions in the Cayman Islands, in the back of the Swiss tax department. The banking data that he wants to publish cover the period 1997-2002 and relates to "a number of German rich person in particular". In April 2007, a spokesman of the bank had recognized, following an article of press, that a former employee had flown of the files, former to 2003.

Sport clubs: Arsenal Holdings

Influence

Human impact

Forced displacement of population, financing of terrorists and paramilitary groups, destruction of villages, assassination of opponents and complicity in all theses crims (money laundering). [?] list 2007

Agriculture: Chiquita Brands International Inc.