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Custom Alerts
Keep updated with news & reports on individual companies’ social & environmental conduct.
New subscribers: Click here to subscribe to Custom Alerts
Introductory rate = $100/month; $25/month per additional subscriber at same company. The link takes you to a credit card payment system. See below for other payment options, & pricing for non-profits & academic institutions.
Current subscribers: Click here to log in to your account
What are Custom Alerts?
Custom Alerts are a unique time-saving service that enables:
- companies to keep up-to-the-minute with what people are saying about their social & environmental conduct – so they are prepared for questions from journalists and others
- investors to monitor specific companies, sectors and issues
- NGOs to strengthen their research and campaigns
Select companies & subjects of your choice. Every time we add an item to our website about one of your chosen topics you will receive an automatic email alert. Chose from:
Over 3800 companies
Over 150 business sectors
Over 160 countries
Over 150 topics
Custom Alerts go beyond mainstream sources, covering local reports from all parts of the world. In many cases the materials on our site and in our alerts are available nowhere else. Our sources include: campaigning groups & NGOs from all regions, journalists (including local journalists in developing countries), corporate responsibility organisations, governments, policy experts, UN and international agencies.
Custom Alerts launch, April 2006: Click here for press release
Further information for companies [PDF] Companies use Custom Alerts to keep track of what others are writing about their company and sector.
Further information for investors [PDF] Investors use Custom Alerts to monitor the social & environmental performance of companies & sectors of their choice.
Further information for environmental managers [PDF] Environmental managers use Custom Alerts to keep informed of what people are saying about their company’s and competitors’ environmental performance.
NGOs, consumer organisations, universities & policy institutes use them for their research & campaigns. Please contact customalerts@business-humanrights.org for information about reduced rates for non-profit institutions.
Some examples
adidas could select “adidas”, “Nike”, “Footwear”, “Clothing & textile”, “Labour rights”, “Supply chain”, “Monitoring”, “China”, “Indonesia”
Dell could select “Dell”, “Toshiba”, Technology”, “Supply chain”, “Labour rights”, “Health & safety”, “Digital divide”, “Environment”, “Malaysia”, “Vietnam”
Unilever could select "Unilever", “Procter & Gamble”, “Danone”, “Food & beverage”, “Toiletries & soap”, “Access to water”, “Microcredit”, “Kenya”, “India”
Newmont Mining could select “Newmont Mining”, “Rio Tinto”, “Mining”, “Indigenous peoples”, “Security & conflict zones”, “Environment”, “Displacement”, “Health”
Investment firms & rating agencies could select companies that are in their portfolio, or that they are considering adding to their portfolio
Columbia Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development could select “Globalization”, “Trade”, “Project financing/loans”, “Law & lawsuits”, “Divestment”, “ Disclosure/use of payments to governments”, “Equator Principles”, “Environmental discrimination”
Oxfam could select “Development & poverty”, “Supply chain/Fair trade”, “Impact assessment”, “Access to medicines”, “Apparel & textile”, “Pharmaceutical”
Why subscribe?
Custom Alerts help you:
- Be prepared
Custom Alerts are immediate. Not only do they let you know of news and reports – they also inform you that those news and reports are on our website, which receives 1.5 million hits per month worldwide.
- Save time
No need to search for relevant items on our website – we send them straight to you, as soon as we add a link to the site.
- Keep informed with a wide range of sources, beyond mainstream news
including local sources, often the first to catch emerging issues.
The information we send is intelligently filtered by our expert staff. And it is controlled by you: choose as many or few subjects as you like, and log in to your personal page to change your selected topics at any time.
How much does it cost?
Our introductory rates are:
US $100 per month for the first person in each company to subscribe
US $25 per month for each additional subscriber within the same company (anywhere in the world)
A reduced rate is available for non-profit organisations and academic/other institutions. Please contact us at customalerts@business-humanrights.org for details.
How do I subscribe?
Electronic payments:
To subscribe and pay electronically by credit card, click here. You will be given the option to pay on a monthly or annual basis. The payments are processed by WorldPay and can be made in US$, euros, or UK sterling.
Once you have made the first payment you will be taken to a secure personal page where you can select your topics.
Invoice/cheque: (there is a 10% surcharge for this payment method)
If you would like us to invoice you and to pay by cheque or bank transfer, please contact us at customalerts@business-humanrights.org
UK office (London): +44 20 7636 7774
US office (California): +1 909 626 0260
What are Custom Alerts’ terms & conditions?
Click here for the terms & conditions. You will be asked to indicate that you accept these terms & conditions when you sign up for the Custom Alerts.
