LS&Co. Unzipped
May 15 2011
Not Just Cotton -- Better Cotton
Levi’s®, and Dockers®, and our newest brand, Denizen™, are known for marketing and design. We also want to be known for farming.Not that we’re buying land and leasing tractors. We’ll leave that to the experts.But 95% of our products are made of cotton. So we have a vested interest in how that cotton is grown. And that’s why we’ve joined the Better Cotton Initiative, which is committed to growing cotton in a way that’s healthier for communities and the environment – and more economical.
Posted By: Pankaj Kapoor, Levi Strauss & Co. Social & Environmental Sustainability |
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May 11 2011
The Month of Respect
If your home is a relatively calm and stress-free place, consider yourself fortunate. And then consider this: 15.5 million children in the United States alone are growing up in homes where they witness or, worse yet, experience abuse.15.5 million. Children.At Dockers,® we want to do something about relationship abuse. Who wouldn’t? And you can help.
Posted By: Lissa Lowe, Dockers® Global Consumer Marketing |
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May 10 2011
The Next 20 Years
We take great pride at this company in ensuring the dignity, respect and safe working conditions of not only our employees, but also the workers around the world who make our products.In fact, 20 years ago, we took the labor, health, safety and environmental standards we used in our own factories and effectively told our vendors, “Here. These are now your standards.”It was a big risk, one that many said would put us out of business. But it was the right thing to do.And guess what? We’re still here.
Posted By: John Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Levi Strauss & Co. |
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May 10 2011
Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason
“Leaders of Tomorrow" -- that’s how Time magazine characterized my father, Peter E. Haas, Sr., and my uncle, Walter Haas, Jr., in 1953.
Posted By: Peter E. Haas, Jr., Director, Levi Strauss Foundation |
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May 05 2011
Giving Back Never Goes Out of Style
It’s Community Day in Levi Strauss & Co. offices in many parts of the world. And while volunteering in their communities is a regular part of many employees’ lives, this is the day when they head out en masse to a variety of projects.We talked to employees at San Francisco headquarters as they began their day. Here’s what they had to say…
Posted By: Cory Warren, Editor, LS&Co. Unzipped |
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Apr 27 2011
30 Years of AIDS
HIV/AIDS presents us with two interrelated issues: a medical epidemic and the associated scourge of stigma and discrimination.
Posted By: Cory Warren, Editor, LS&Co. Unzipped |
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Apr 22 2011
The Evolution of Earth Day
Despite what some might think, Earth Day isn't dead. It's evolving.Today’s world is a much different place than it was when Earth Day was first celebrated 41 years ago. We’re lucky to live in a world where, more and more, making environmentally friendly decisions is becoming the norm, not the exception.What’s more, consumers actually now expect corporations to not only make great products, but also be socially responsible and do good for the community and the environment.
Posted By: Amy Leonard, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Levi Strauss & Co. |
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Apr 18 2011
Getting It Covered: Improving Access to
HIV/AIDS Care
It may be hard to imagine, but many local insurance plans around the world still do not cover HIV/AIDS. Levi Strauss & Co. is one of only a handful of global employers working hard with local insurance plans globally to make such coverage the rule – not the exception.And they're making progress.Recently, the company negotiated with Mexico’s largest health insurance provider to drop a four-year waiting period for HIV/AIDS benefits. That waiting period was a local standard of coverage.
Posted By: Gilles Ascensio-Parvy, GMC Services |
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Apr 14 2011
Stop the Presses!
If you printed our just-released 2010 annual report … and placed the pages end-to-end …they would stretch more than half the length of a football field.That’s a lot of paper. It’s also one reason why we’re not printing it.This year, for the first time, the Levi Strauss & Co. annual report is strictly electronic. You may download it here. Or view the interactive version here.
Posted By: Kris Marubio, Levi Strauss & Co. Corporate Affairs |
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Apr 12 2011
In It for the Long Haul
I must admit, there were times when coming to work was tough.When my organization -- ACHIEVE, or Action for Health Initiatives, Inc. -- was in its infancy, we lost our first group of advocates to AIDS. This was a decade ago, when affordable, life-saving medicines to treat HIV and AIDS weren’t readily available in the Philippines.
Posted By: Malu Marin, ACHIEVE Executive Director |
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