Rank a Brand, a leading global company with supply chain productions in various areas, including textile, hunting for an ambitious Product Developer!

We are looking for a Product Developer with:

* Diligence, high concentration capacity, attention to detail * Flexibility, ability to work on average 84 hours/week * Physical health and capacity to stand and kneel for several hours at a time. Candidates free from infectious diseases strongly preferred

What we can offer: * Learn how to work with textile

* Protection from tedious internal and externa...

Rank a Brand wants to know about the labour conditions of factory workers where our cell phones are being assembled, our garments are being sewed and our prawns are being peeled. That’s why Rank a Brand scans if brands endorse acceptable working hours, pay proper wages and give their employees the right to freely join trade unions. Because the labour conditions in factories can be tough.

The stories of the people that work in those sweatshops do not often reach the outer world. The workers are afraid to lose their jobs if managers find out that they are telling others about the abu...

Apple is being cut down in the media right after the company published its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report 2010 last weekend.  Headlines as ‘Apple admits using child labour’ and ‘Apple admits chi...

The ‘green’ image that consumers might have of brands does not always correspond to the actual ‘green’ policy of companies. This is the result of a research performed by the green innovation consultancy ‘Change’ based in the US . This report  analysed the CSR policies of brands and also assessed the perception of mainstream consumers of how green and responsible a variety of brands are. This then allowed the consultancy to compare the ‘actual score’ of a brand to the ‘perceived s...

After analyzing hundreds of CSR-reports and websites during the last 5 months, we have noticed that the CSR slogan of a brand does not necessarily say anything about its actual CSR policies. Our rankers made a top 3 to illustrate this point:

1.Nintendo’s definition of CSR is “activities that put smiles on the faces of everyone Nintendo touches”. Although completing Super Mario no doubt led to many happy child faces, this can’t been seen as a serious CSR-goal.

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