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Example Newsletter November 2008

Dear Ethical Shopper,

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! Today's Co-op Bank report 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.

Thank you to Brother UK, Good Energy, Cafedirect, Highland Spring, Green People, Trophy Pet Foods and Oxfam for being the lead sponsors/advertisers in the book - each company is an example of true ethical excellence - across ALL environmental, animal welfare and human rights areas.

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; 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.

If you are interested in joining our huge network of book shops and book distributors or just want to link to our websites please contact us on admin@ethical-company-organisation.org or on 0845 257 6818.

By using Ethical Company Organisation research, you have the information you need to really help animal welfare, human rights and the environment - so please continue to spread our information amongst your friends and colleagues on which companies and brands to choose - those which do reach the Ethical Company Organisation benchmark.

We will be sending you a free chapter from The Good Shopping Guide every month by email from now on which will give greater 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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