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...Google’s parent company Alphabet has a relatively respectable “B” grade from InfluenceMap....
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...The US tech companies’ grades, however, declined significantly once supply chain emissions were considered: Apple scored highest with a B, while Google and Microsoft were rated C-....
...But a case against Vital Farms, a Texas egg producer, is proceeding (we previously wrote about Vital Farms as a publicly traded B Corp)....
...A “B” score “does not indicate environmental leadership”, it added....
...(Simon Mundy) ‘Grade inflation’?...
...“In the tech world, you can run A/B tests [because] someone’s already set up the internet for you — you don’t need a huge amount of capital,” Coulter says....
...No less significant was a poll of the general UK public, commissioned by the B Labs non-profit group (which runs the voluntary B Corp certification scheme, for purpose-driven companies)....
...(Simon Mundy) London Stock Exchange welcomes first B Corp Over the past 14 years, the non-profit B Lab has awarded B Corp certificates to 4,000 companies that meet its exceptionally high standards of social...
...But following the concerns raised by Galloway and ProPublica, B Lab said it was reviewing these allegations as part of a complaints assessment process. B Lab declined to comment further....
...The last time Greenpeace conducted similar research on the US companies (in 2017), Apple and Google received an A grade while Microsoft and Amazon were rated B and C respectively....
...It now employs 300 people, and raised £10m in a series B funding in March 2020 to build the engineering, customer service and product teams....
...high-end retailer with heavy exposure to tourist spending, Hamleys has been insulated from some of the pressures afflicting other toy retailers, such as competition from Amazon and discounters such as B&...
...b/d in February from 300,000 b/d in January....
...No Zyklon B in the old Twitterfeed since I moved to make-believe Germany," she writes in Wired. Tech tools you can use The smartest toothbrush yet?...
...been chiefly driven by a growing long-term shift in saving behaviour, as Indian households increasingly shed their traditional predilection for real estate and train their sights on financial assets, says B...
...Meanwhile discount chain B&M bucked the trend among bricks-and-mortar retailers as it posted sharp increase in revenues on the back of store openings....
...“This is their plan B — I don’t think they’ll come back and do a bad bank after this,” says Saurabh Tripathi, financial services head for the Boston Consulting Group in India, who says there would have been...
...That has fed US complaints that foreign workers on H1-B visas, which give them the right to stay in the country for up to six years, have held down salaries, discouraging more Americans from entering the...
...Additional reporting by Jack Farchy in Moscow and Simon Mundy in Mumbai...
...Mr Kinnock accused ministers of being “asleep at the wheel” for years: “It’s incredible that the government didn’t have a clear Plan B.”...
...Earlier this week the US responded to China’s declaration of an “air defence identification zone” by sending B-52 bombers into the airspace as part of a pre-planned exercise....
...Earlier this week, the US flew B-52 bombers near the islands without telling China. Japan and South Korea have also continued surveillance missions in the area....
...During these exercises, which conclude on April 30, the US has deployed nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bombers in a demonstration of its capacity and determination to defend South Korea....
...Additional reporting by Simon Mundy in Seoul and Jonathan Soble in Tokyo demetri.sevastopulo@ft.com...
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