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Subscriptions for businesses, organisations, and institutions

Our magazine has been at the heart of the ethical consumer movement since 1989.

Each issue features detailed shopping guides, news of ethical products and campaigns, in-depth features, opinion, comment, boycott updates, readers' letters, and much more.

An annual subscription for a business, organisation or institution gives full online access to our unique shopping guides, ethical rankings, company profiles and the essential ethical magazine in print or digital format.

 

Option 1

The subscription can be accessed by up to 40 users concurrently. There is one login that multiple users would share.

What your organisation will receive:

  • A digital account managed through a single point of contact, (they will have responsibility for managing the account details and logins for the users).
  • 12 months full access to all online Shopping Guides and Company Profiles.
  • Access to digital versions of the latest magazine and our entire catalogue of back issues.
  • An optional six issues of Ethical Consumer Magazine in print (one copy per issue).

This costs just £145.00 (excl VAT) per year.

 

Option 2

Up to 10 users can access the subscription through personal accounts linked to their email.

What your organisation will receive:

  • Ten individual digital-only accounts, where each of the ten users will have an individual account.
  • Twelve months of full access to all online Shopping Guides and Company Profiles for each user.
  • Access to digital versions of the latest magazine and our entire catalogue of back issues for each user.
  • An optional six issues of Ethical Consumer Magazine in print (one copy per issue per organisation).

This costs just £145.00 (excl VAT) per year.

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How to set up your subscription

Please contact our subscriptions team on 0161 226 2929 (weekdays 10am to 4.30pm) or by email.

We will invoice for the subscription and accept payment by card, bank transfer or cheque.

 

 

I have used Ethical Consumer magazine and resources for the last 20 years in my teaching around the area of consumption ethics. It is an excellent resource for providing up-to-date information on corporate activities, consumer boycotts and buycotts as well as market reports.

It is a fantastic introduction to those unfamiliar with the issues as well as for those who wish to go deeper into specific issues. Thank you Ethical Consumer!"

Professor Deirdre Shaw, University of Glasgow.

 

Sample magazine - Issue 204 (Sept/Oct 2023)

This magazine includes guides to:

  • Vitamins & Supplements
  • Breakfast Cereal
  • Baked Beans
  • Cat & Dog Food

Plus:

  • score tables and Best Buy recommendations
  • do you really need vitamins & supplements?
  • which breakfast cereals are healthy and which are junk food
  • which cereals and baked beans are high in sugar and salt
  • is it OK to buy insect-based pet food?
  • what's so bad about fish-based cat food?
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Ethical Consumer in a fantastic teaching resource, which I have used for several years as part of undergraduate social science courses.

Ethical Consumer’s reports are an excellent resource to illustrate, communicate and explore not only ethical consumption itself but topics of sustainable consumption and sustainable development; economic globalisation and global value chains; corporate abuses and corporate social responsibility; as well as campaign groups, social movements and contentious politics."

Dr Daniel Welch, Lecturer in Sociology, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

 

Other options for large organisations

With a subscription to the magazine and consumer site you get access to the consumer shopping guides and magazine, but not all the data that we hold on companies.

With a subscription to the Corporate Research Database you get access to all the data we hold on companies, not just to the data that appears in the shopping guides, but you don’t get access to the shopping guides or magazines.

 

About the Ethical Consumer website

Subscribers can access our shopping guides on the website. We have over 100 shopping guides at present.

Our unique shopping guides are powered by our Corporate Research Database. This database contains information on over 40,000 companies, brands and products.

We've developed the world's most sophisticated and simple to use, personal ethical rating system to turn this data into the score tables on our shopping guides.

The database is a result of over 20 years work conducting primary and secondary research and systematically organising it using our ratings system. Our ratings cover around 300 topics in 19 areas in 5 main categories. We continue to update it daily.

Subscribers can also access detailed product, brand & company information on our company pages.

Subscribers will also have access to the most recent magazine and our back catalogue in digital format.

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How to set up your subscription

Please contact our subscriptions team on 0161 226 2929 (weekdays 10am to 4.30pm) or by email.