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// January 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Doing Good

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Phones beyond repair, or with little value, are dispatched … for their gold. …. The most valuable handsets find their way to adobe illustrator cs5 download a room across the hall from the storeroom, where two employees sell them on eBay. Most, however, are adobe illustrator cs5 download sold via private auction to a stable of about 20 different resellers.” (NY Times Magazine purchase online Adobe Creative Suite 5)

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Lululemon, CSR, and product attributes

// November 18th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Graphic windows 7 buy key, Retail

This is adobe illustrator cs5 download a point about corporate social responsibility, using consumer marketing and Canadian company Lululemon as an adobe illustrator cs5 download example. While consumers are willing to invest a fair amount of faith and adobe illustrator cs5 download goodwill in a company without proof of a detailed CSR plan, at the adobe illustrator cs5 download first sign of a crisis, they tend to look for evidence, independent testing and adobe illustrator cs5 download videotape of manufacturing facilities with happy and well-educated workers.

Which brings us to the upscale active wear chain Lululemon.

Seaweed or no seaweed? Health benefits from the product or no benefits? That’s the question the New York Times asked this adobe illustrator cs5 download week about a fabric called VitaSea and the products made of the adobe illustrator cs5 download fabric sold by the company. The newspaper (after a tip from a shortseller of Lululemon stock) had adobe illustrator cs5 download tested two of their products for presence of seaweed, as claimed. There didn’t seem to be any.

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When asked about Lululemon’s product tags and the claims about vitamins and minerals, [Chip Wilson, founder, product designer and board chair] said, “That’s coming from adobe illustrator cs5 download the manufacturer. If you feel the fabric, it feels a lot different.”

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Director for adobe illustrator cs5 download products and design. She said the company would test the fabric in the adobe illustrator cs5 download future.“We will be adobe illustrator cs5 download diving in deeper, so that our educators on the floor can adobe illustrator cs5 download answer those tough questions,” Ms. Schweitzer said. “Right now, we are relying on the mill and SeaCell’s information.”

That’s not the best of answers. Just ask Nike or Mattel how “the manufacturer is responsible” works as a adobe illustrator cs5 download rebuttal to criticism of product quality. Which must be one reason why Canada’s Competition Bureau got involved cheapest Creative Suite 5 Master Collection.

The company responded quickly, noting that they regularly ask an independent lab to adobe illustrator cs5 download test their materials and products, and that they did contain fabric derived from adobe illustrator cs5 download seaweed.

Still, you have to wonder why that fact wasn’t communicated to a BSD like the New York Times when they first asked. (a point Eric also brought up)

By the adobe illustrator cs5 download end of the week, the Competition Bureau had struck an agreement with Lululemon to adobe illustrator cs5 download stop making claims of health benefits for the fabric.

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Bob Meers, Lululemon’s CEO, issued a statement after the Competition Bureau announcement, noting that:

“In order to adobe illustrator cs5 download ensure the integrity of our product labelling, we are conducting a adobe illustrator cs5 download review of the therapeutic attributes described on all product hang tags.”

That seems to mean the score is product quality = 1, product attributes = 0.

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