Acer designs environmentally friendly products and, with its vendors, has established a green supply chain.
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Along the way they identified a niche: those who liked eco-friendly products but weren't hard-core "granola" types.
"I've been very impressed by the eco-friendly products and the overall appearance of the store, " he says.
She starts with an interview with actress Jessica Alba, who talks about her Honest Company for eco-friendly products for familes.
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It consists of five eco-friendly products made from plant oils: organic glass cleaner, brake dust shield, hydrophobic car wash, tire shine and wheel cleaner.
While the company does have strategic partnerships with several companies and a focus on open innovation collaboration projects, they still continue streamline mom-friendly products.
The driver of a Smart Car is ahead of his time, the Daimler-Benz mantra declares, and people want to be associated with environmentally friendly products.
It says the initiative will promote energy efficiency and more environmentally friendly products, and help the EU meet its targets on energy and climate change.
Liberty Tire Recycling reclaims nearly 1.5 billion pounds of rubber for innovative, eco-friendly products by recycling 50% of all tires in the United States.
He says the Amazon is increasingly being pulled into a global market that demands environmentally friendly products, which is, he says, the argument that Cargill is using.
Additionally, the 50 and 30 series monitors meet international energy standards including Energy Star 5.0 and China's Energy Level 1 grade (50 series), proving themselves eco-friendly products.
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He and two business partners say they plan to apply for dot-eco, a domain they hope will be attractive to companies and nonprofits with eco-friendly products or missions.
That means going beyond perfunctory donations to charity and throwing a few eco-friendly products into the store mix, but instead, making ethical retailing an integral part of a business strategy.
Rather than focusing on geeky products for techies -- such as the Xserver and Mac Pro -- Del Prete says he's betting Steve Jobs will show off consumer-friendly products such as a freshened iPhone and a new version of the Apple TV set top box next week.
With each sleek issue ripe with interviews, infant and toddler friendly products and ensembles, and advice for new (and existing) moms alike, I got the opportunity to sit down and interview with Kaitlyn about what makes Babystyle successful, the balance of her editorial life with her social life, and how to decide who gets to be the cover star of the publication.
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Zodiac is the leading provider of premium, innovative pool and spa products and is committed to designing and producing the most energy efficient, earth-friendly pool products and systems available.
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While the iPad is the quintessential example, consider, too, every product in the Method brand's line of environmentally friendly cleaning products, each created with the consumer's socially-aware needs in mind.
James Neal, who as head of Columbia University's libraries in New York is a big customer, gives Reed Elsevier top marks for creating user-friendly research products, but he also has a six-point gripe list with the company that includes price-gouging and concerns that scientific journals are increasingly being consolidated under one corporate banner.
And over and above the choice of products, friendly and knowledgeable staff were seen by many as a big draw.
And as much as Apple is heralded for its product design, its efforts to run an environmentally friendly business and create products that make the world a better place, there is almost no attention paid to the fact that Apple is one of the nation's biggest users of outsourced labor.
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Scottish Friendly added that new flexible online products introduced in 2011 continued to grow in popularity.
In fact, our engineering teams have worked incredibly hard over the years to make our products even more environmentally friendly, and much of our progress has come in areas not yet measured by EPEAT.
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According to a recent report from the McKinsey Quarterly, Method, a maker of household cleaning products that is widely praised for its environmentally-friendly practices, refuses to compromise for the environment when it comes to the aesthetics of its products.
"Samsung's 50 and 30 LED monitors illustrate our commitment to releasing top-of-the-line products that are environmentally-friendly and address the needs of consumers, " said Jin-hwan Kim, Vice President, Visual Display Business, Samsung Electronics.
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In many cases, these companies emphasize that their products and production practices are environmentally friendly and beneficial for China.
Back in 2001 the company created a process called Green List to screen the chemicals in their products and substitute them with environmentally friendly alternatives.
Got Milk? has nearly ubiquitous awareness in the US, been licensed for use on a variety of products, and shared extensively via friendly riffs and parodies.
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Like Apple products, Apple staff are people friendly.
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He was a superlative, productive dynamo, a technology genius, and someone who learned from his own management failures and set-backs to become a worthy corporate executive too, who focused on the bottom line and on the commercial viability of his products, whether in user-friendly computers, animated motion pictures, online music or smart phones.
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