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Collins Debden

OVERALL

Owned
IDN
Rating
Criticism, some praise

Diaries and stationery

Sales offices in Australia, UK and Singapore. Based in Australia.

Company Ownership

Collins Debden Pty Ltd   AUS     website   email      
  Nippecraft Ltd   
   owns 100% of Collins Debden Pty Ltd  
SGP     website   email      

Office supplies

Founded in 1977

      Asia Pulp & Paper Company Ltd   
       owns 64% of Nippecraft Ltd  
SGP     website         

Pulp and paper company

With combined pulp, paper and packaging capacity of 7 million tonnes in Indonesia, it ranks number one in Asia, excluding Japan.

       »    Sinar Mas Group   
             owns 100% of Asia Pulp & Paper Company Ltd  
IDN     website         

Pulp & paper, food, agri-business & financial services

This Indonesian conglomerate has extensive interests in both the palm oil and pulp and paper sectors. It is Indonesia's largest palm oil producer and the second-largest globally. Controlled by the family of Indonesian tycoon Eka Tjpta Widjaja.

> About the Ratings

Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Collins Debden Pty Ltd
Environment 5/5 for packaging performance
This company received the highest packaging performance level of 5 (Beyond Best Practice) in its 2022 APCO Annual Report. Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) is a not-for-profit organisation leading the development of a circular economy for packaging in Australia. Each year, APCO Members are required to submit an APCO Annual Report and Action Plan, which includes an overall performance level from 1 (Getting Started) to 5 (Beyond Best Practice).
Source: APCO (2022)
Environment FSC certification
This company holds Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody Certification, and sells products certified as FSC Mix, FSC 100% and FSC Recycled.
Source: FSC (2017)
Environment Dropping APP as a supplier
Following a 2012 Greenpeace report, Collins Debden Australia dropped APP as a supplier and committed to no longer use raw materials from APP mills in Indonesia. The investigative report exposed how APP pulp mills are riddled with ramin, an internationally protected tree species.
Source: Greenpeace (2012)
Business Ethics Environmental claims
This company states its Environmental Policy on its website.
Source: company website (2020)
Nippecraft Ltd
Business Ethics Sustainability claims
This company has sustainability claims on its website.
Source: company website (2020)
Asia Pulp & Paper Company Ltd
Environment CDP Forests Score of B
In 2022, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts towards removing commodity-driven deforestation and forest degradation from its direct operations and supply chains. Responding companies are scored across four key areas: disclosure; awareness; management; and leadership. This company received a CDP Forests Score of B.
Source: CDP (2022)
Environment CDP Climate Change Score of B
In 2022, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change risk. Responding companies are scored across four key areas: disclosure; awareness; management; and leadership. This company received a CDP Climate Change Score of B.
Source: CDP (2022)
Social CDP Water Security Score of B-
In 2022, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts to manage and govern freshwater resources. Responding companies are scored on six key metrics: transparency; governance & strategy; measuring & monitoring; risk assessment; targets & goals; and value chain engagement. This company received a CDP Water Security Score of B-.
Source: CDP (2022)
Environment Rainforest destruction
A 2019 report found that this company violated their zero-deforestation commitments in 2018 by taking wood from a controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group, who are yet to adopt a policy to refrain from deforestation, peatland destruction, or exploitation of local communities.
Source: Environmental Paper Network (2019)
Environment Supply chain practices in China
This company received a score of 7.6/100 (retrieved 10-Oct-2020) in the Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI), a system for evaluating supply chain practices in China, particularly in regards to environmental management and water pollution. Scores are calculated using government compliance data, online monitoring data, and third-party environmental audits, as well as trends in the environmental performance of factories in the company's supply chains.
Source: IPE (2020)
Social Conflict with local communities
A 2019 report found that this company is involved in hundreds of conflicts with communities across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The research results show that in just five provinces of Indonesia, at least 107 villages or communities are in active conflict with APP affiliates or its suppliers. The controversial expansion of APP's pulpwood plantations has had vast social impacts on local communities, including land-grabbing and displacement of local populations, sometimes involving brutal violence.
Source: Environmental Paper Network (2019)
Environment Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragons report, 2001
This 2001 report by Friends of the Earth UK examines the responsibility of international financial institutions for Indonesian forest destruction, social conflict and the financial crisis of Asia Pulp & Paper.
Source: Friends of the Earth UK (2001)
Environment Illegal logging in Indonesia
A 2012 Greenpeace investigative report exposed how APP pulp mills were riddled with ramin, an internationally protected tree species. The logging and trade in ramin is banned under Indonesian law. Greenpeace was calling APP's customers to stop doing business with APP until they clean up their act. APP has since announced a moratorium on further forest clearance and a range of measures to stop its role in deforestation.
Source: Greenpeace (2012)
Environment Illegal logging, corruption
'The company has profited from a corporate ethic founded on corruption and environmental exploitation. In Indonesia's Riau province, where APP has fed paper mills for some two decades, forests have been devastated, while the local population has remained one of the poorest in the country.' Multinational Monitor article outlining criticisms. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
Source: Multinational Monitor (2005)
Environment Rainforest destruction
Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL are among Indonesia's most destructive corporations. Between them, they produce 80 percent of Indonesia's pulp and paper. This comes from clear cutting rainforests and replacing them with monoculture acacia pulp wood plantations grown on these cleared rainforests and peatlands.
Source: RAN (2010)
Environment Companies end supply contracts
A number a companies cut ties with APP in 2008 on environmental grounds including Office Depot, Walmart, Staples, Ricoh and Australian retailer Woolworths Ltd.
Source: Wikipedia with links (2008)
Business Ethics WWF report - APP Misleads Customers
'Four years ago, APP made a public pledge to protect some of the high conservation value forests within its holdings... APP is now touting a hollow commitment to conservation in an elaborate public relations and advertising campaign at the same time they are accelerating the clearing of rainforests.' [Listed under Information due to age of report]
Source: WWF (2006)
Business Ethics Sustainability Consortium member
This company is a member of The Sustainability Consortium, an organization of diverse global participants that work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation to improve consumer product sustainability. They develop transparent methodologies, tools, and strategies to drive a new generation of products and supply networks that address environmental, social, and economic imperatives.
Source: Sustainability Consortium (2019)
Information BankTrack profile
BankTrack is a global network of civil society organisations and individuals tracking the operations of the banking sector and the activities they finance. Banktrack aims to promote fundamental changes in the banking sector so that banks adopt just and sustainable business practices. BankTrack also has profiles on companies, such as this one, which have been the subject of civil society campaigns for damaging the environment or society. Follow the link to see this company's profile.
Source: BankTrack (2018)
Information Wikipedia profile
Follow link to see Wikipedia profile on this company
Source: Wikipedia (2015)
Sinar Mas Group
Environment 31% in Forest 500 Rankings
Forest 500 identifies the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions with the greatest exposure to tropical deforestation risk, and annually assesses them on the strength and implementation of their deforestation and human rights commitments. This company received a score of 31%.
Source: Forest 500 (2022)
Environment Pulping the Planet
This Greenpeace report reveals how Sinar Mas is engaged in clearing rainforests and destroying peatlands. The group also has significant interests in palm oil and coal mining, amongst other sectors.
Source: Greenpeace (2010)
Environment Friends of the Earth report
A 2008 report on the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on the state of sarawak.
Source: FOE (2008)
Environment Deforestation & Palm Oil Plantations
Criticisms in this Greenpeace report include illegal logging, large-scale deforestation and expansion of palm oil plantations into previously forested areas. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
Source: Greenpeace (2008)
Social Most controversial companies of 2010
This company appeared ninth on RepRisk's top ten "most environmentally and socially controversial companies of 2010". Companies on the list were severely criticised during 2010 by the world's media, governments and NGOs. Criticisms of Sinar Mas include excessive deforestation to make way for palm oil production in Indonesia, destroying the habitats of endangered orangutans and Sumatran tigers, illegally burning forests, damaging rivers and fish stocks, destroying indigenous ways of life, and creating social conflict through land rights and resources disputes. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
Source: RepRisk (2010)
Information BankTrack profile
BankTrack is a global network of civil society organisations and individuals tracking the operations of the banking sector and the activities they finance. Banktrack aims to promote fundamental changes in the banking sector so that banks adopt just and sustainable business practices. BankTrack also has profiles on companies, such as this one, which have been the subject of civil society campaigns for damaging the environment or society. Follow the link to see this company's profile.
Source: BankTrack (2018)
Information Wikipedia profile
Follow the link to see Wikipedia's profile on this company
Source: Wikipedia (2020)

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Company Details

Type Wholly-owned subsidiary

Contact Details

Address Level 3, 79 George St, Parramatta, NSW, 2150, Australia
Phone 02 8831 3000
Email enquiries@collinsdebden.com.au
Website www.collinsdebden.com.au

Products / Brands

Collins Debden
Collins Bookkeeping
Collins Diaries & Planners
Debden Diaries & Planners


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