Generation Leadership > Kudos for Colgate Palmolive

http://legalliteracy.com/blog [http://legalliteracy.com/blog]      This is a business practice success story that corporate compliance lawyers will want to share with their clients.  Not only did Colgate neutralized a potential smoking gun situation, they turned a potential legal problem into a business opportunity — the chance to protect their reputation and avoid an embarassing legal entanglement. 

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Corpwatch.org[Corpwatch.org] CorpWatch: A Notre Dame professor has analyzed Dick Cheney's 2005 tax return and concluded that our fair Vice President exploited a new tax law instituted post-Katrina to save himself several million dollars. It turns out that Smirky Dick used a loophole intended to encourage charitable donations for Katrina relief to write off charitable contribution which went to non-Katrina causes.

[Aubreypub.typepad.com] R Blog: I’m certain that I was inspired to learn to curse after first hearing my maternal grandfather call a recalcitrant milk cow, “You sonofabitch!” Sonofabitch had a wonderful ring to it and when I tried it out later (I believe I was five) it felt good to let the ess slide easily out of my mouth followed by a rhythmic vowel-consonant-vowel connector and then forming the lips together to emit the emphatic exhalation of “bitch.” (“Sonofabitch” seems to be almost archaic these days replaced in the idiom by the more currently popular “Jackass” which I must admit is a wonderful word and one of my favorites because there are so many jackasses around). A few years later in the copper town of Miami, Arizona, older kids offered obscenities in English and Spanish.

[Stevensilvers.com] Scatterbox by Steven Silvers: In the other camp are the outraged ideologues, violently shaken from their convenient rationalization that a $732 million, publicly traded corporation existed primarily to validate their anticorporate beliefs. The UK-based Ethical Consumer threatens to lower The Body Shop’s “ethical rating,” adding the company to a list of activist group boycotts that already includes Microsoft, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Israel, Maxwell House, Procter and Gamble, Shell, Rolls Royce and the whole country of Canada.

[Accountingobserver.com] The AAO Weblog » Auditing: Let me state the facts up front: I am a shareholder of Colgate-Palmolive and I have been for years. I own it, and it’s in accounts that I manage for clients.

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