August 2009 newsletter 15% off online

Welcome to our August newsletter we hope where ever you are you are getting a little sunshine.

Using the website for online orders

All customers if you haven’t already done so, firstly need to register
with the site by going to Sign in via the Home Page then contact me via
email jim@simplysoaps.com
or telephone during office hours, 01603 720869 to be set up to see
trade prices online, we will respond confirming that we have set you
up, so that when you log in again you will be able to buy Simply Soaps,
Hedgerow Herbals and Faerie Flames at trade prices. Current prices
shown are mail order prices in bulk.

The benefits of buying online is that it is quick and easy,
carriage is only £2.50 instead of the usual £5, and there are no
minimum orders. Plus we are offering a further 15% discount off your
order total!!* Simply type in the word: trade15 in the discount code
box at the checkout and you will be entitled to 15% off your order.

NO MINIMUM ORDERS

Due to the increasing
demand for our products and in order to keep refilling those lines that
sell more quickly, our retailers have asked us to reduce the minimum
order value from £100. So we are more than happy to oblige, there will
be NO MINIMUM ORDER AMOUNT. Laurence Campion for the company says that;
‘this will help in the current climate plus some of our lines out sell
others, so now customers don’t have to wait before re-ordering.’

As part of Article 13’s United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) commitments (http://www.article13.com/csr/ungc_iip_values.asp) for 2009 to ‘work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery’, we have written the Second of a series of  five best practice cases studies on Transparency and Anti-Corruption (T & AC).  The aim of the case studies are to disseminate T & AC best practice and to advocate take up, to our network of partners, clients, associates and the Article 13 visitors through the use of a well recognised organisation/ brand.

This case study focuses on Shell’s Transparency and Anti-corruption
approach in its operations in Nigeria. Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) is the
second largest multinational energy corporation in the world, with wide
scale operations and activities, a diversity of different business
units and has over 102,000 employees in more than 100 countries and
territories (http://www.shell.com/). The case study identifies in great depth, the following:

1.    The Company
2.    The key drivers for change integrating T & AC.
3.    Taking action
a.    Core values
b.    Communication
c.    Policies and initiatives
d.    Reporting
e.    Working with the community
4.    Challenges to transparency and anti-corruption
a.    Poor track record
b.    New challenges
c.    Corporate citizenship
5.    Conclusion

Full case study:
Article 13 T & AC case study:
Ford (http://www.article13.com/A13_ContentList.asp?strCategory=Best%20Practice)

Further information on T & AC please see:
Transparency and anti-corruption resource centre
(http://www.article13.com/csr/ungc-transparency-anti-corruption.asp)

Contact information
Please contact Fiona Banyard on fionab@article13.com or call 020 8840 4450
Please also see Article 13’s website www.article13.com