Ethical Business Research Tools

Ethical Consumer’s Business Research Tools help you increase your social impact with high quality insights into partners and suppliers.

Working with organisations that share your values can be an important way of increasing your positive impact on the world.

All year round Ethical Consumer’s researchers undertake detailed, independent analyses of companies’:

• carbon reduction plans
• approaches to workers’ rights
• claims around purpose and ethics
• tax avoidance behaviours… and much more

This research is then made publicly available through two databases and other services. 

Our subscription model

We have three levels of access to our Business Research Tools.

Essential

Provides an organisational subscription to our consumer website’s paywalled data for up to 30 people. Read detailed ethical analyses of around 1,000 companies in 100 sectors including technology and financial services. 

Cost: £145 annually.

Intermediate

Along with an organisational subscription to the consumer website you also get organisational access to our separate Corporate Research Database. This analyses a wider range of around 2,500 companies and allows you to easily download detailed technical reports for sharing internally. 

Cost: £380 annually.

Advanced

Bundling together organisational subscriptions to our consumer website and Corporate Research Database, this level also allows you to order one of our in depth screenings report each year into any company of your choice at a reduced rate. 

Cost: £630 annually.
 

Contact us to find out more

To begin your subscription, or to discuss the options in more details, please contact us

• by online form
• by email on consultancy [at] ethicalconsumer.org
• by telephone 
   

Customer feedback

Our Business Research Tools are used by a wide range of charities, NGOs, and businesses with ethics at the heart of their organisations and who are keen to research potential clients, partners, suppliers, or sponsors prior to beginning commercial relationships.

"At Oxfam GB we rely on the Corporate Research Database as a key part of our private sector partner due diligence processes. It’s really easy to use and pulls together relevant news stories and NGO rankings, summarising the key points and providing references to follow where more detail is needed."

Other resources for organisations

We offer a range of services, from training to screening potential donors:

• search companies in our database
• company screening reports
• quarterly business newsletter
• training and advice on a variety of ethical topics

Plus relevant articles, for example

• why supply chain due diligence is important for charities.