CSR Minute: Brown-Forman Publishes Case Study on Stakeholder

Brown-Forman has published its third corporate responsibility report. It includes a case study on the company’s recent Stakeholder Dialogue session, at which experts and advocates met to share ideas about how Brown-Forman can positively influence consumer behaviors on responsible alcohol consumption. The event was the first of its kind in the beverage alcohol industry. Brown-Forman produces Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort, Finlandia, Korbel, and other quality alcohol brands.

Thames Water is planning to become Britain’s largest producer and industrial user of solar power. The company has partnered with Ennoviga Solar to install solar panels in three locations around London that will provide an annual output of more than 4,500 megawatt hours of electricity, enough to run 1,000 homes. Ennoviga Solar will maintain the panels and repay the 7 million pound—$11 ½ million—investment by selling the clean electricity to the water company. Thames Water estimates the initiative wil