BITCI Corporate Responsibility Week 2007

Corporate Responsibility Week is a unique initiative in Ireland led by BITCI and its member companies. Each event will focus on a specific issue of corporate responsibility, with participation from member companies and will aim to highlight some of the many outstanding responsible business practices led by BITCI member companies and to highlight key issues affecting business competitiveness. Public profile events will seek to raise awareness among key stakeholders including media.

Corporate Responsibility Week also aims to support BITCI member companies communicate internally on their CR practices by suggesting companies "mirror" some of the activities and themes organised during the week. The aim of this internal element is to engage as many member company employees as possible to better understand why corporate responsibility has become an essential element of good business practice.

Confirmed Events:

Community - Monday October 15th, 8.30am: Seeing is Believing tour of Cork City, led by Bryan Mohally, MD, Janssen Pharmaceutical and new BITCI Board Member. Munster-based CEOs will be invited to visit three community projects supported by businesses to see first hand the positive impact business can have in community regeneration.

Marketplace - Tuesday October 16th: A meeting will be held with the National Consumer Association to discuss consumer rights.

Environment - Wednesday October 17th, 8.00am: Forum with Minister Gormley in Dublin. Objective is to open a dialogue with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government on the environment as an increasing topic of importance on the business agenda.

Workplace - Thursday October 18th, 9.30am: Health & Wellbeing Workshop on Managing Stress in the Workplace. The workshop is for member company HR and CR managers and will take place in Dublin.

CR Communications - Thursday October 18th: Launch of the fourth edition of the BITCI Best Practice publication.

Friday October 19th - On this day, we will be mailing out copies of the Best Practice publication to member companies, non member companies, academia, and government.


For further information, contact Moira Horgan, Marketing Communications Manager at 01-8743812, 086-1722105 or mhorgan@bitc.ie