Challenging corporate power

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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Aim

Help Ethical Consumer challenge corporate power beyond consumer markets


Many large for-profit companies are no longer operating in the long-term interest of humans, animals or the planet.

In addition, some of them have captured our democratic governments and our media channels and surrounded us with a sea of misinformation and hate speech.

Ethical Consumer has long identified challenging corporate power as a core part of its mission and identity.

We think that, with 36 years of research and campaigning expertise in this area, now would be a great time for us to increase our contribution to the wider debate and campaigns around corporate power, in addition to our work on ethical shopping guides.

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What we would like to do is to use our practical, solutions-focused approach to journalism to promote a vision where:

  • most enterprises are co-ops or social enterprises
  • public and community ownership are thriving
  • other stakeholders sit alongside shareholders on corporate boards everywhere

This work will also involve:

  • challenging the legitimacy of damaging business models
  • challenging the corporate-sponsored growth paradigm
  • challenging runaway monopoly power and growing corporate legal rights

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More details on this project:

Since March 2025, we have published information on:

There is a short summary of our current plans for the project here.

Some of our work on degrowth appears in our climate gap reports.

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