Healthy Business Strategies Report

“Healthy Business Strategies for Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy”

Companies eliminate toxic chemicals and thrive.
Business leaders create value through healthy products.

Healthy business strategies

• enhance consumer and employee loyalty
• differentiate company brands
• increase market share
• lower costs

Six company case studies

Recommendations

• know what’s in your products
• use only green chemicals
• support government reforms
• adopt precautionary principle
• re-design products

Contents

• Executive Summary
• Introduction and Chapter 1
  • Introduction: Creating a Competitive Advantage
  • Toxic Chemicals in the Economy
• Chapters 2 and 3
  • Brands at Risk
  • From Toxic to Green Chemistry — Taking Action
• Case Studies
  • Avalon Natural Products: Consciousness in Cosmetics
  • Dell, Inc.: Mainstreaming the Precautionary Principle
  • H&M: Fashion Chemistry
  • Herman Miller: Healthy Chairs
  • Interface Fabric: Benign by Design
  • Kaiser Permanente: Healthy Patients, Workers and Communities
• Chapters 5 and 6
  • Lessons for the Journey
  • Recommendations for Healthy Business Strategies