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Ethical business

July 2024

  • Shoppers pass a Body Shop store in Canterbury, Kent

    Body Shop nears rescue deal with group led by British cosmetics tycoon

    Mike Jatania’s Auréa heading consortium in exclusive talks with administrators for UK chain

June 2024

  • Tom Jeffreys

    Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

    Tom Jeffreys
  • Green piggy bank with calculator.

    Ethical banking in the UK: how to put your everyday account to good use

May 2024

  • Staff sort plastic bottles on a conveyor belt

    ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

  • Staff working at the bar of BrewDog Waterloo, London

    Little remains of Brewdog’s ‘punk’ ethos as co-founder steps down

April 2024

  • Unilever sign

    Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges

  • Fairphone Fairbuds review earbuds sitting on top of their charging case.

    Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries

February 2024

  • Charlie Bigham at his London headquarters with selection of meals

    Observer business profile
    Ready meal king Charlie Bigham: ‘I haven’t seen a single benefit from Brexit yet’

  • Aurelius has yet to set out its plan for The Body Shop but staff fear more than 200 stores are at risk.

    The Body Shop staff fear company will be broken up, risking 2,200 jobs

  • Photo dated 26/3/2001 of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick stacking shelves in her store in High Street Kensington, London, to mark Body Shop's 25th birthday

    Brief letters
    A piercing flashback to The Body Shop

  • A Body Shop store In London

    The Body Shop collapses into administration in UK

  • The Body Shop files intention to appoint administrators

  • Job losses likely as The Body Shop lines up administrators

January 2024

  • Alexandra Shulman, in a Gucci jacket she has been wearing for 25 years, at a sale of vintage fashion in north-west London.

    The latest fashion rules: buy pre-loved labels and just five new items a year

  • From left: Jane Shepherdson, Jessica Stanley, Dalbir Bains.

    Could you commit to buying just five new items of clothing in a year?

November 2023

  • Tony's Chocolonely bars in  a variety of flavours

    Let boardrooms look beyond shareholder returns to drive productivity, report urges

    Adapting business laws to include benefits other than profit in decision-making could add £149bn to UK economy, says Demos thinktank

July 2023

  • The Bibby Stockholm immigration barge in Portland, England, operated by CTM.

    Ethical fund to sell shares in Australian firm CTM over concerns it profits from asylum seeker detentions in UK

    Brisbane-based firm oversees UK’s floating barges that are to accomodate asylum seekers and which have drawn protests and raised concerns

May 2023

  • a woman wearing a knitted cardigan while knitting

    Closet clinic
    How to pick knits: six questions to ask before buying that cardigan

    A quick touch test can give you a sense of a knit’s quality. But dig deeper into its fibre and yarn and you can ensure your jumper lasts years
  • Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the HSBC AGM in Birmingham on Friday.

    HSBC investors reject plan to split bank in meeting disrupted by climate protest

    Majority of shareholders reject proposal to spin off Asian operations, after hour of disruption from campaigners
  • An artist's impression of artificial intelligence

    US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI

    White House says it will invest $140m in AI advances that are ‘ethical, trustworthy, responsible and serve the public good’
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