Companies

IKEA

retail

15 👺

Ikea is a Swedish furniture manufacturer that has sourced timber from illegal logging [1][2], and whose furniture designs have led to the deaths of children [3]. Ikea France was found illegally spying on employees [4], Ikea stores have been built over historic buildings and tombs [5][6], and the founder of Ikea was involved with Nazi groups [7].

Mondelez

food

20 😡

Mondelez International, the maker of Cadbury, Oreo, and other popular snack brands, has been accused of destroying tens of thousands of hectares of orangutan habitat [1] and continuing to employ child labor on cocoa farms in its supply chain despite past pledges to eliminate such practices [2]. Despite promising to source sustainable palm oil, Mondelez has remained linked to suppliers engaged in deforestation and human rights abuses, and the company continued operating in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, leading Ukraine to declare it an international sponsor of the war [3].

PepsiCo

beverages

20 😡

PepsiCo is an American food and beverage conglomerate which is one of the biggest plastic polluters worldwide [1], has contributed to water shortages in drought-affected areas [2], and been complicit in illegal rainforest destruction [3]. The company has aimed to reduce its environmental impact, achieving positive water balance in India [4].

Tesco

retail

30 😡

Tesco is a British retailer which appropriated a UNICEF slogan for advertising purposes [1] and engaged in price fixing [2], and its supply chain has included animal cruelty [3][4], slave labour [5], and deforestation of the Amazon [6]. Tesco has provided millions of pounds in educational equipment to schools [7], which is a fraction of the amount it has avoided in tax [8].

Unilever

food

5 👺

Unilever is a British food and beverage and consumer products conglomerate that has been named by Ukraine as a sponsor of war [1], continued selling Ben & Jerry's in Israeli settlements depite the brand's intent to withdraw [2], hired security that assaulted peaceful protestors [3], aggressively pushed skin lightening products [4], engaged in price fixing [5], opposed legislation against single-use plastic [6], caused deforestation [7] and sourced palm oil from a supplier that used child labour [8].