Despite backlash to bottled water, profits grow
June 4, 2008
New York, NY - Bottled water may be going the way of the dodo, if you believe the hype in the media these days. But despite the backlash from many about its green costs, profits are up.
Nonetheless, Fiji Water is upping its marketing budget to make its image more eco-friendly. One of their new slogans: “Every Drop Is Green”. Read more
Popularity: 5%
GE - Shining light on water
May 30, 2008
BOSTON - Surging oil prices have captured the attention of consumers and leaders around the globe, but General Electric Co is already on to what it thinks will be the world’s next big worry — water. Read more
Popularity: 10%
Bottling plans scaled back
May 20, 2008
SACRAMENTO - The Nestle company on Monday said it is significantly scaling back plans in Northern California to build what would have been the country’s largest water bottling plant. Read more
Popularity: 11%
Agri-giant addressing water use
May 20, 2008
ST. LOUIS - Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it is investing $6 million in a new center in Gothenburg, Neb., that will focus on technologies, corn breeding and agronomic practices to address water management in crop production. Read more
Popularity: 4%
The true cost of bottled water
May 20, 2008
The growing consumption of bottled water raises questions about the product’s economic and environmental costs. Among the most significant concerns are the resources required to produce the plastic bottles and to deliver filled bottles to consumers, including both energy and water. Read more
Popularity: 5%
Conference tackles water’s effect on bottom line
May 13, 2008
BOSTON - Over and again, water is labeled the new oil, a resource where demand continues to rise but supply is limited.
Experts at the Ceres Conference here on Tuesday focused on the risks to businesses and communities that the “global water crisis” poses, one with economic, environmental, and human health impacts. Ceres is a network of environmentally oriented investors. Read more
Popularity: 6%
Coke thirsts to be water neutral
April 22, 2008
Coke has good business reasons to take sustainability seriously. Its brand is all-important. It depends on clean water, a scarce resource. And the company has been stung by alleged misdeeds. Although no one ever proved a connection, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kerala, India, was shut down in 2004 after nearby wells went dry. That fed into a global anti-Coke campaign that caused about 20 colleges, including the University of Michigan and NYU, to suspend the sale of Coca-Cola products, albeit temporarily. (Fortune) Read morePopularity: 5%
Starbucks introduces environmentally friendly coffee
April 9, 2008
Starbucks Middle East has introduced Columbia Narino El Tambo gourmet coffee across the region. Growers in El Tambo,near the upper slopes of Colombia’s Volcan Galeras, use environmentally friendly agricultural practices that help maintain clean ground water. Read morePopularity: 6%
Nestle: free water from Florida to sell at a huge profit
April 1, 2008
MADISON COUNTY, FLORIDA — Nestle, the Swiss company that holds about one-third of the bottled water market in the United States, has made a deal with the state of Florida to take hundreds of millions of gallons of water a year from a state park, Madison Blue Springs, at no cost — except for a $230 pumping permit. Read morePopularity: 9%
South African Mine Displaces Thousands
March 26, 2008
LONDON - Mines operated by the world’s biggest platinum producer Anglo Platinum have displaced thousands of South Africans, who have lost access to farmland and clean water, pressure group ActionAid said on Tuesday in a report. Read morePopularity: 9%
