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making a difference

Throughout all our travel management services corporate and social responsibility is fundamental to what we do. We have been committed to ethical trading since 1844 and have been voted the UK’s most ethical brand for the second year running.*
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In 2007 we gave 10.4m of our pre tax profits to the community
Since the launch of it’s ethical policy in 1992, The Co-operative Bank has turned away over 900m of loans to businesses that conflicted with it’s customers ethical concerns
We were the first major food retailer to champion fair trade. We sell around 200 grocery product lines, more than any other supermarket
We are one of the world’s largest independent generators of renewable energy
We have built the largest in-house office waste recycling centre in the UK
The Co-operative Travel group was the first travel company to go carbon neutral
We have invested 2m in green energy for schools across the UK
We were awarded the prestigious International Climate Change Award by business in the community in July 2008

For further information access our Group Sustainability report: