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How ethical is Amazon Web Services? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud computing arm.  AWS owns about a third of the entire cloud market. Amazon has been widely criticised for its practices, including its tax avoidance. 

Amazon is known for its shameless tax avoidance, workers’ rights abuses, environmental impacts and much more. The company has been the subject of an Ethical Consumer global boycott call since 2012. We’ve summarised the key ethical issues to consider when it comes to Amazon.

Netflix is the best-known TV streaming service in the UK. So how ethical is this entertainment giant?

Google is one of the best known brands and one of the five largest tech companies in the world. So how do its ethics measure up?

Holland & Barrett is probably the UK's best known health store. It's on most high streets and sells many brands marketed as vegan and organic. But how well do you really know this company? We look behind the brand reviewing the company's ethical policies and ownership.

The NatWest Group is one of the biggest high street banks in the UK.  As the fifth largest bank in the country, it has 19 million customers and assets worth almost £700 billion. But how ethical is this popular giant?  

Tesco is the UK's largest supermarket chain. From sales of live turtles in China to the treatment of suppliers, the company has been the target of many campaigns over its approach to business.  Tesco says it is doing all it can on sustainability but how do the company's ethics really stack up? 

Shell plc is one of the world’s largest oil and gas multinationals. In 2023 it was voted “Worst Company of the Year” by Ethical Consumer readers.* It’s recently been in the news over its gargantuan profits and massive executive pay offers during the cost of living crisis.  In this company profile we outline these, and other ethical issues.