Corporations

Dégâts des eaux au Brésil: Nestlé refuse l’expertise

Richard Girard, July 23, 2007, The Polaris Institute - On July 5th, 2007, the chief executive officers of bottled water giants Coke and Nestlé joined 4 other corporate leaders, including water privateers Suez and Läckeby Water Group, to announce a new CEO Water Mandate at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders meeting.

Stockton, CA, City Council vote to end the privatization of the city’s water and sewer systems, and to bring them back under public control

"Employers led by a Coca-Cola executive [Ed Potter] stopped the International Labour Organisation examining violations of workplace rights in Colombia..."

The Sydney Morning Herald , June 6, 2007

Aaron Glantz OneWorld US, LOS ANGELES, Jun 6, 2007 - The Coca-Cola company has been charged with illegally seizing lands communally owned by small farmers and indiscriminately dumping sludge and other industrial hazardous waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as the multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to protect rivers on four continents.

How the soda giant fought charges of tainted products in a country fixated on its polluted water

Tara Lohan, May 30, 2007, AlterNet - Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry.

Joanna Moorhead, Tuesday May 15, 2007, Guardian - It was in 1977 that campaigners first called for a boycott of Nestlé because of its aggressive marketing of formula milk in the developing world. Thirty years on, have Nestlé and the other baby-milk firms cleaned up their act? Joanna Moorhead travels to Bangladesh to find out

Shira Tevah, May 22, 2007, Chicago Maroon - Students at the University of Chicago are calling for the removal of Coca-Cola from campus dining halls until the corporation begins respecting human rights. Investigations have shown that Coca-Cola is guilty of serious violations around the world.

The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2007, ATLANTA - SunTrust Banks Inc. began a restructuring plan that includes selling 9% of its Coca-Cola Co. stock.

The bank said it recently sold 4.5 million of its 48.2 million Coke shares. SunTrust said it will decide what to do with the rest by year's end.