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EXAMPLE NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER, 2008

Dear Ethical Shopper,

We all want to work in an ethical office.  It is really heart-warming to know that your company cares at least a little about the world out there - especially about the environment, animal welfare and human rights.

One easy way for a company to show it cares is in its choice of office technology brands.  The different brands all provide pretty much the same functionality and offer similar price points. So choosing a brand with a high Ethical Company Index score is a must because some brands are involved in activities you wouldn't want to support! (Hewlett Packard for example score a very lowly 45 on our Ethical Company Index) Similarly, there are some really impressive ethical office technology brands out there with Brother leading the way with a fantastic score of 100!

To see the detail on the comparative ethicality of all the office technology brands your office should choose just link here to your free digital pdf ethical office chapters which look at All in Ones/ Computers - DVD/Fax/Kettles - and don't forget Mobiles/Printers/TVs.

All the above are featured in the very latest edition of The Good Shopping Guide!

Link here to free pdf chapters on All in Ones/ Computers - DVD/Fax/Kettles - and don't forget Mobiles/Printers/TVs

You can get the full latest Ethical Company Index research results by buying edition 7 from bookshops or direct from www.ethical-company-organisation.org. But meanwhile, here are the headlines:- We awarded some of the worst overall Ethical Company Index scores to Exxon Mobil 5; Procter and Gamble 36; Tesco 38; Walmart 42; Glaxo Smithkline 21; Coca Cola 32; Altria Group 20; Barclays 31 - so avoid these like then plague! Congratulations to the following companies which were awarded some of the highest scores in the latest edition:- Brother UK 100; Good Energy 100; Charity Bank 100; Chelsea Building Society 81; Atmos Boilers 95; Caurnie Soap Company 86; Green Energy UK 95; Osmo 95; Ecosoapia 93; Doves Farm 92; Seasalt Clothing 92; Honesty Cosmetics 100; Green People 89; Organico 88; New Look 88; Cafedirect 88; Natura Organics 88; Natural Organic Soap 79; Lily's Kitchen 88; Redwood Wholefood Company 95; Mooncup 82, Organipets 80; Viridian 79; Innocent 80; Europa Petfoods 68; Highland Spring 88; Burns Pet Nutrition 76; Sainsburys 77; Ecotricity 89; Trophy Pet Foods 76

The good news is that many of these high scoring brands are no more expensive than less ethical brands from the major multi-nationals. So you can beat the credit crunch and still keep up your support for the ethical shopping movement's most ethical companies and brands.

Thanks for continuing to subscribe to our newsletters - you are now one of over 3 million ethical opinion formers who have used our research to compare the real ethicality of different companies and brands. It is the concerns of people like you that helped make the ethical shopping movement finally happen - so thank you! A recent report from The Co-op Bank showed that the overall ethical market in the UK was up by 15% to £35.5bn in 2007 - so we are really getting somewhere!

Annual Edition 7 of The Good Shopping Guide has now hit the bookshops - giving you the very latest 'full screening' research on which companies are truly ethical and which are not.  The book is bigger than ever before (375 pages) and again reveals a huge variation in Ethical Company Index scores. It again illustrates the key importance of seeing through companies' increasingly prevalent 'ethical wash' - as several companies with extremely low Ethical Company Index scores are simultaneously spending huge sums on 'ethical advertising campaigns'.  Such advertising blurs the truth on a huge scale and this is why The Good Shopping Guide WILL NOT accept any advertising from green-wash or ethical-wash companies.

We will be sending you a free chapter from The Good Shopping Guide every month by email from now on which will give great depth of information on over 60 ethical product sectors - but please do unsubscribe below if for any reason you would prefer not to receive these!

Yours sincerely,

The Ethical Company Organisation
http://www.ethical-company-organisation.org

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The Ethical Company Organisation continues to provide information to buyers on which choices are the most ethical through the following key media channels:-

1. The Good Shopping Guide
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Work on Edition 8 of the UK's best-selling ethical shopping book is well underway. With publication planned for October 2009, the 375 edition 8 will feature new research and sections including Good Food & Drink, Good Money, Good Health & Beauty, Good Home & Office - plus Supermarkets, the Ethical Marketplace and Cars.  See www.ethical-company-organisation.org to buy your copy or call 0845 257 6818 to request advertising or sponsorship information.  And if you want to join our network of green fair, book shop, ethical fair and farmers market distributors, please do contact us.

2. GOOSHING
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Our free online ethical shopping tool has attracted over 2.5 million unique users. It enables free ethical comparisons, price search, brochure views and purchasing on around 100,000 different online products. See http://www.gooshing.co.uk for more information. If you have a website, please post a link to GOOSHING to show you support ethical shopping - if you want to do more than a text link, you'll find special buttons/images for this on the site.

3. Ethical Accreditation
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Most of the UK's leading ethical companies have now gained Ethical Accreditation and we have thus recently been very busy researching several new applicant companies. Look out for our 'Ethical Company' logo on company websites, stationery and packaging. And please do try to choose these 'premier league' ethical companies whenever you can!