About us

Ethical Corporation has provided business intelligence for sustainability since 2001.

We serve around 3,000 customers a year mainly from big business. Our customers are also NGOs, think-tanks, academia, governments and service providers to the corporate sustainability industry.

We're a UK business, part of FC Business Intelligence Ltd, an independently owned company based in London Ethical Corporation is 100% focused on global ethical business and how large companies are responding to the sustainable business agenda.

We have writers and experts all over the world. We publish the leading global responsible business magazine, host events and sell independent research. Our conferences are widely recognised as the best in the field.

Ethical Corporation and Stakeholder Intelligence Ltd. 

Ethical Corporation's founder and Chairman Toby Webb is involved with both EC and Stakeholder Intelligence Ltd as a director and co-founder.

To be clear about who does what, here's what both firms do:

Ethical Corporation provides customers with magazine subscriptions, conference passes and sponsorships, and sells independent research reports

Stakeholder Intelligence Ltd provides training, speaking, facilitation, contract research and advisory services to customers. For more information visit www.stakeholderintel.com 

The EC team:

Toby Webb is our founder and chairman, Nick Johnson directs and manages the whole team. Liam Dowd, Hayley Weinberg and Tommy Derrick do the marketing for the magazine and reports. Steven Wilding and Catherine McNally are our conference directors. Aaron Jackson and Oliver Bamford look after sponsorship and advertising. Harshi Joshi looks after subscriptions and Ian Welsh is the Editor of the magazine. To find out more about us, click on the following links: for the Magazine, Conferences and Research

Our print magazine and website

Our print magazine is published ten times a year. We love it. It's about 60 pages every issue. That's 600 pages a year of independent, critically constructive analysis of global corporate responsibility issues. All the articles are on this website, on the homepage and in the archive. We publish independent business journalism and commentary that you can't get anywhere else. We also publish almost daily on Ethicalcorp.com and host one CR management blog at: http://ethicalcorp.blogspot.com

Our conferences Our flagship conference is called the Responsible Business Summit. We host it during the first week of May each year in London. We’ve just expanded it to New York, and plan to run it also in Asia in 2012.

Our other conferences are all very focused on key corporate responsibility management issues. These include reporting, supply chains, heavy industry and other issue or sector based area. The conferences are about two things: Strategy, and Management. We usually discuss strategy on the first morning, and then spend a day and a half on management of difficult CR issues.

We use corporate case studies and select only the best companies as speakers. All our agendas are based on in-depth research with our corporate customers and other key stakeholders. Click here for more.

Our research, debate, workshop and other products Every year Ethical Corporation produces a number of independent research reports which we sell to our customers. They are always about how strategy is being implemented by leading companies in the space.

Recent reports have included water use reduction, socio-economic impact assessments and how companies embed corporate responsibility into business operations. Further reports will be published during 2011 and 2012. We also have a variety of other products available for corporate customers and service providers to industry.

Our Live Debate product is an online text chat with leading experts, allowing anyone from around the world to take part in a simple, engaging way and join the debate. A sample debate is here. We market these debates heavily to our database; usually reaching more than 30,000 readers and having several hundred take part in each debate. 

Our Supported Editorial product is a level above the advertorial offered by others. We work with leading companies such as PepsiCo, Cargill Truvia and Microsoft to offer corporate supported analysis of a particular issue. We ensure distribution to tens of thousands of readers and opinion formers around the world, from our database of more than 80,000 CR contacts.

Here’s a recent example For prices and availability contact: Oliver Bamford on +44 (0)207 375 7518. Contact us at subs@ethicalcorp.com for more information.