The milk products factory at Shuangcheng has brought many benefits to local farmers, including programmes for improved cattle breeding, better milk prices, better road systems between the farms and the factory and improvements in livestock feed to increase milk production. The company reports on the code of conduct implemented in factories manufacturing Reebok products to ensure safe and healthy working conditions. Reebok says that factory workplace conditions are assessed with the assistance of external monitors. Shell Brasil describes how it became the first gasoline distributor in Brazil to insert in its contracts with suppliers a ban on the use of child labour. By November 1999, the clause had been introduced in contracts with 39 distilleries.
Initiatives range from tree planting in Thailand to adult literacy programmes in Brazil.
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