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ACCSR appoints Jonathan Dutton as non-executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... and Supply (CIPSA), which he led as founding managing director in Australasia from 2004 until earlier this year. "Procurement and supply side questions have become much more prominent in responsible business practises in our region in the last few years," ...

Net Balance Foundation joins CitySwitch program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... company's overall sustainability goals include embedding improved efficiencies in business practice, including technology, procurement and distribution. "This new funding provides a huge opportunity to commercial office tenants around Australia to join ...

Net Balance/ECO-Buy merger looks to impact strategy, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... together supply chain and other market developments to have the connections you need to make across supply chain, procurement, and contracts, as well as understanding exactly what you need in terms of strategy and policy commitment from senior leadership ...

Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... legislation to help promote change in Australia and the region." Net Balance recently announced a merger with sustainable procurement advisory firm ECO-Buy, a move that brings together two leading specialist sustainability organisations. The merger will ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Net Balance and sustainable procurement advisory firm ECO-Buy have merged, bringing together two leading specialist sustainability organisations. Cameron Neil, Net Balance The merger will see both entities increase the range of their sustainability ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... just for full-scale sustainability reporting - it's equally important when it comes to individual supply agreements, procurement arrangements where there' some level of assurance required around a sustainability measure, and we want to make sure that ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... December 2014. In terms of further roll-outs of its sustainability agenda, CBA reported that it had used its centralised procurement system to monitor sustainability risks in the supply chain. In May 2012, the bank began assessing suppliers by asking ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... come in. We see that in the supply chain. We see that from companies getting questions form their customers about procurement practices and human resource practices. That will happen with a more affluent and sustainability-sensitive customer." Understanding ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... chain on sustainability issues. In the 2012 financial year, the company "achieve[d] the specified annual level of procurement from Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council (AIMSC) certified suppliers, actively engaged with AIMSC and its key initiatives ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Global businesses are increasingly integrating climate change strategies into their supply chain procurement guidelines, but suppliers' rates of reducing greenhouse gas emission are lower than their corporate clients, according to a Carbon Disclosure ...