The launch follows the acquisition of The Corporate Citizenship Company, one of the longest standing and most respected CSR consultancies in the world by Chime Communications plc, owners of CR specialists The Smart Company. The two companies have merged to create a business with unrivalled breadth and depth of experience in the CR sector.
Corporate Citizenship will offer a business focussed approach to corporate responsibility to clients such as Scottish & Newcastle, Pearson, Cadbury Schweppes, Diageo, HSBC, Lafarge, Unilever and Vodafone.
Specialisms include reporting and assurance, strategy and benchmarking, stakeholder engagement, management of environmental risk and community relations. The company also manages the London Benchmarking Group on behalf of its 100+ corporate members and publishes the leading journal, Corporate Citizenship Briefing.
Chris Satterthwaite, CEO of Chime Communications, comments: “This is a dynamic and exciting market place and we believe that increasingly corporate responsibility will lie at the heart of successful businesses. By bringing The Corporate Citizenship Company together with The Smart Company, we are demonstrating our commitment to creating a globally recognised, market leading corporate responsibility brand.”
Amanda Jordan OBE, Chair and Founder of The Smart Company, comments: “We are excited about what lies ahead. Our combined business brings together some of the most talented people in the CSR field. By bringing together these two companies we are creating a one-stop consultancy that will offer clients around the world unrivalled depth and breadth of experience.”
David Logan, Co-Founder of The Corporate Citizenship Company, says “We are passionate about enabling businesses to take on the challenges of corporate citizenship and sustainability. We believe that by becoming part of the Chime Group and working alongside Smart we will create an international centre of excellence in management practice for forward-thinking companies.”
To mark the launch, the company has just published exciting new insights into “The Shape of Corporate Citizenship in 2008”. The report draws on the knowledge and experience of 170 business professionals in the UK and USA working in the field of corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. The report is available on the Corporate Citizenship web site at:
http://www.corporate-citizenship.com/
