Welcome to The Ethical Company Organisation

The Ethical Company Organisation's ETHICAL RESEARCH team provides the world's leading clear and comparative ethical information on thousands of companies and brands to ethical shoppers, NGOs, ethical companies and ethical investors. We compare hundreds of companies' ethical and Corporate Social Responsibility records in relation to up to 15 different ethical criteria, including environmental and human rights records, food standards, animal welfare and involvement in the arms trade.  This involves working closely on ethical shopping issues with ethical consumers, ethical companies and several NGOs - from Friends of the Earth to Oxfam. Our research reports both the poor ethical standards and the good ethical standards of the world's companies and brands and our aim is at all times to be both transparent and fair. Our work aims to encourage the world's companies to treat humans, animals and the environment with the highest possible levels of respect - and those that don't we will report on accordingly.

Our ETHICAL ACCREDITATION SCHEME is the UK's only cross-spectrum (people, animals and environment) ethical accreditation scheme and exists to reward ethical companies' behavior. Companies with excellent scors on our Ethical Company Index analysis may display our independently CSR standard marks - and provide up-to-date positive comparison with less ethical competition.  Only the highest ethically ranked 30% of any particular product sector are eligible for ethical accreditation. See the Ethical Accreditation scheme application form here.

ETHICAL REFERENCE BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

The Good Shopping Guide is the world's leading ethical shopping reference book - providing clear & extensive ethical rankings across 60 product sectors.  Now on its 7th annual edition, this is the essential reference work for the ethical shopping sector - and includes detailed ethical comparison tables on the leading companies in consumer sector from ethical banking to ethical investment and ethical fashion.  The Good Shopping Guide is used by ethical consumers, NGOs, CSR professionals, every ethical business, and government procurers who want to choose the most ethical products. See example free pdf chapters on left of page. 

The Good Nutrition Guide compares and ranks all the nations food brands on the health criteria set out by The Food Standards Agency.  This features over 2 years of new and uncompromising ethical research.  For some example product sections see The Good Nutrition Guide PDF. 

GOOSHING.CO.UK is our free online ethical shopping programme and has already served over 1 million unique ethical shoppers.  It enables ethical shoppers free ethical comparisions, brochure views and live price searches on thousands of ethical products from over 300 etailers - this way you can be sure your purchase is both the lowest cost and the best ethical investment. 

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