• nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    Knauf. They produce drywall boards, among other building materials. You probably dwell a home where these products are built in. Excerpt from linked Wikipedia article:

    In 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Yale University published a list of companies that chose to remain active in Russia. According to this report, over 600 companies have withdrawn from Russia — but some remain. Knauf is still operating across 14 sites in Russia but has claimed to have suspended new investments.[5].
    In November 2023 Ukraine listed Knauf as an International Sponsor of War for promoting mobilisation in Russia by sending its employees to the war against Ukraine.[6].
    According to German public-service broadcaster ARD, Knauf has been active in collaborating with the Russian military in its construction efforts in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.[7][8]

    Another source (German), 2024 states, that due to investigation of a news outlet, they allegedly withdrew their actions.

    Withdrawal in response to ARD investigation?
    Only recently, the plaster company from Lower Franconia hit the headlines because of its activities in Russia: Research by the ARD magazine “Monitor” suggested that Knauf had violated EU sanctions against Russia. Whether the withdrawal from Russia is connected to the allegations made was neither confirmed nor denied by the company to BR24 today and a press spokeswoman did not wish to comment on the matter in response to a written request.

    They probably wanted to have a foot in the door when it comes to rebuilding, when the war will be over finally.

    Another, probably more known company is Claas, a manufacturer of farming equipment like combine harvesters and such. Another source (German), 2023 claims

    The company condemns Russia’s attack on Ukraine, said Mohr. Nevertheless, Claas cannot and does not want to withdraw from one of the world’s most important agricultural regions. “Both countries are enormously important for feeding the world’s population. That’s why farming must continue there,” Mohr told the SZ newspaper, adding that harvesting machines were essential for this.

  • kugel7c@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    17 days ago

    KPMG, Deloitte and Mc Kinsey, for reasons that include at times being both financial auditor and bookkeeping at the same time, and consultancy meaning reducing headcount no matter the cost.

    I don’t really know all that much about it honestly but all I’ve heard of them, is that they get the smartest people to do the worst thing that they can get away with.

    • DeLacue@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Mc Kinsey are the guys who invented and popularised the idea of executive bonuses for short term company performance and the idea of layoffs to temporarily make those companies look like they’re doing better. They’ve also consulted for all of the most evil companies in this thread while they were doing their most evil shit. They constantly do the most courpt stuff imaginable. Often their advice creates massive problems which they will then sell their services to the people cleaning up their mess.

      They’ve consulted for hostile nations while being paid by the US government to give advice on how to deal with those hostile governments.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Like the other comment said, I would love to know some morally appropriate companies, that way I can choose to use them. Boycotting is nice but if you lack the knowledge of where to shop then it’s a fruitless effort

    • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      There are large companies, many of them in Germany, who are owned by foundations. Perhaps the best known is Bosch, which is almost entirely owned by a charitable foundation. Another very large one is ZF Friedrichshaven, owned by the Zeppelin Foundation. They don’t do any consumer products, but are one of the world’s largest players in the automotive industry.

    • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Disney decided to keep their dei policies so that’s something.

      But they also cut a trans story to avoid controversy and probably other shit things I cant remember atm. So take what you will I guess

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Valid thing to want, but I get the feeling this thread is about alerting people to horrible companies they might not realize are horrible… like my comment about Trader Joe’s.

  • AreaKode@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Mark all corporations off your list. Corporations don’t care about the consumer. Only your money, which supports their shareholders.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            18 days ago

            Yes, non-profits are still a type of “business” and many of them absolutely do not help their supposed causes as much as they portray. Susan G. Komen Foundation went from a darling of the non-profit world to people wondering whether they really helped women at all.

            I think they’re using Save the Children as an example because ostensibly 74% of their revenue actually goes directly to aiding people, and 26% is employee compensation, advertising, and so on.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      18 days ago

      I mean, the whole “no ethical consumption under capitalism” or “all corporate ethics are fake” type stuff has plenty of truth to it, but at the same time, one does have to get any good or service not made oneself from somewhere, and corporations are made up of people with different views about what they’re personally willing to do, or how much they think taking unethical actions even is the profitable thing. So, there is still room for some businesses to be worse than others.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Ben & Jerry’s was traditionally a “good” company for example, but what killed that was them getting bought out by an evil company, Unilever. This path is the path a lot of “good” companies take when they go bad.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            18 days ago

            To be fair, Unilever has owned Ben & Jerry’s since April 2000.

            Unless you were pressuring them about that issue before April 2000, you were actually dealing with Unilever.

            Which is literally my point.

              • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                18 days ago

                Published date: 20 July 2021 14:27 BST

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry's#Unilever_era

                In April 2000, Ben & Jerry’s sold itself to British multinational food giant Unilever for $326 million

                In 2010, Jostein Solheim, a Unilever executive from Norway, was appointed CEO.

                In 2018, Matthew McCarthy, previously a Unilever executive, was appointed CEO, replacing Solheim.

                You’re missing the point here. It hasn’t been in control of the original people who ran the company for a long, long time. It’s literally been being run by Unilever executives.

                • Maeve@kbin.earth
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                  18 days ago

                  _The brand said it would end sales in the territories

                  spoiler-title

                  after years ::: of campaigning by activists allied with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign._

                  I think I see what you’re saying but they still owned the company.

                  However,

                  When did Ben and Jerry’s become a public company? In 1978, with $12,000, Ben & Jerry’s opened in a vacant gas station. The first franchise followed in 1981, distribution outside Vermont began in 1983, and the company went public in 1984.

                  So maybe that’s the biggest issue.

  • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Someone needs to create a website called boycotteverything.com or something, and list off every company to boycott because of something heinous they did.

    But have a score out of 10; some are worse than others.

    And link to sources / fact checks.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Sinclair group in the US, bought up basically every local news station and began inserting propaganda into scripts as stories. Highly insidious because the older population generally trusted their local news anchors more than the national outlets.

    GEO group, one of the largest private prison corporations that also manages ice detention facilities and many mental institutions, not sure I need to say much more.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      The Sinclair monopoly is an invisible part of why Trump is in office. Local news doesn’t really exist anymore.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Sinclair is literally why I don’t have a local news station anymore, and also part of why after 10 years of working in local television news and being promoted to higher and higher positions I was finally like “fuck this, I’m out” and started working at a fucking Subway.

  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    18 days ago

    For the big makers of pseudo-science based bullshit medicine, see Weleda (naturopathy, anthroposophy) and Boiron (homeopathy).

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    18 days ago

    Stickermule and uline

    https://slate.com/business/2024/07/sticker-mule-ceos-pro-trump-maga-email-surprised-employees.html

    After stickermule went full magat the owner started to dox people who left negative reviews or spoke out against them.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial

    A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Samuel Smith Old Brewery is probably the shittiest company in the world. Or more specifically its owner, Humphrey Smith, is a full on twat. And, unlike most companies, this brewery and all associated businesses are unlimited companies, meaning that Humphrey bears full legal responsibility for everything his companies do.

    Who’s Humphrey Smith? He’s an ultra rich Englishman (but no one knows his wealth size as all of his businesses are privately owned unlimited companies, so he doesn’t have to file financial reports apart from tax related stuff), he owns a pretty large part of Tadcaster town, hundreds of pubs across UK and he doesn’t give a shit about his employees, customers or people living in Tadcaster.

    He has extremely strict rules for his pubs, which include no kids, no mobile phones, no TVs, etc. He regularly tours his pubs, kicks out people found using mobile phones and then fires the whole pub staff on the spot. He also blocked construction of a new bridge in Tadcaster when old one fell apart, because fuck locals.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I met a guy who really wanted to work at riot games and found no issue with their culture. And the longer I spent talking to him, the more I realize… Ah, you’re an edge lord. Of course you would like the company.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      16 days ago

      I want to add to this their absolutely egregious forced kernel-level anti-cheat. It demands full privileged access to a user’s machine, and unlike some competing systems, it doesn’t want to go away when the game is no longer being played.

      The assurance this won’t be used or exploited for ultra-malicious purposes across the globe by a corporation owned ultimately by the CCP is…

      “Just trust me, bro.”