Inbrief

Coffee shop chain Starbucks has bought Ethos Water, a privately held US bottled water company with a strong record on CSR. Starbucks says it will continue Ethos’s financial support for water projects in developing countries, which was one of the founding aims when Ethos was set up in 2002 by two entrepreneurs, Jonathan Greenblatt and Peter Thum. Ethos products will now be sold in Starbucks outlets.