Examples include Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), Chiquita Brands, Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) and Toys R Us.
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In their bid for Chiquita, the two cities and states have weighed in with considerable heft.
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For almost 20 years, Neil has worked with the likes of Chiquita Brands, Levi Strauss and Lotus Development Corp.
Otherwise, Chiquita sends bananas to several distribution centers, where they are stored in "ripening rooms" designed to reactivate the ripening process.
Many companies, from Alcoa to Chiquita Brands to Google don't think so.
But in the long term, she says, Chiquita could actually benefit by making its tightly controlled supply chain a selling point to consumers.
Earlier this year, Dole and Chiquita caught flak from activists after removing posts from their Facebook pages related to their consumption of tar sands oil.
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This allows Chiquita to deliver bananas with the colors requested by the customers, which falls anywhere on a nine-point scale ranging from green to deep yellow.
Other buys for the Marketocracy gurus last week included Chiquita Brands International (nyse: CQB - news - people ), an international marketer and distributor of fresh food products.
Chiquita Brands hired Edgar Blanco of MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics to gauge the carbon footprint of the supply chain that transports bananas by truck and ship from Central America to the United States.
As Neil described how hard he works to help companies like Chiquita not just change the way they do business, but to embrace the values that underlie their corporate responsibility efforts, I started to see his point.
"Nonprofit religious organizations like universities, hospitals or charities with religious objections won't have to arrange, contract, pay or refer for coverage of these services for their employees or students, " said Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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