Since Russia launched its illegal full-scale invasion on Ukraine on Feb 24,2022, 1030 companies stopped their operating in Russia but
224 companies are defying demands for exit or reduction of activities. Some of them like Heineken, Sbarro Pizza, TGI Fridays, and WeWork have lied about exiting and have instead stayed on.
179 companies have postponed future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing business.
151 companies have scaled back some significant business operations but continuing others.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute has also made it easy for you to tell these companies to stop doing business in Russia, by providing their contact info at https://www.emailcontactukraine.com/ .
You can email and/or post on the Meta/Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn of these companies decision-makers to let them know that you dont want them to support Russia's illegal invasion.
To be honest, I only read them and try to think that they might be biased. I’m not the most clever person in the room, and I’ve been fooled too many times and now I try (not very well but at least I try) to think about everything as ‘xx source says this…’ or ‘yy source says that…’ instead of being absolute truths.
But in my experience: most companies care about profits more than morals, so I believe morr the sources that do not contradict that.
You are right that most companies do value profit more than anything else, yet there are some that have gone ahead and ditched their profit off Russia. As for those who value profits, we can exert somepressure on them by not spending our money on their products/services and by embarassing them on SM.
Many consumers who are against Russia's imperialism and unaware that their favourite brand of shampoo support Russia. Maybe when they realise via SM and mainstream they will join as well.
BizAgainstRussianInvasion is a sister zine to this space and names companies that did the right thing, so there are alternatives to choose from. It was created on the premise that if we need choices to be able to choose. It's no good saying boycott Dove, if the person is unaware of brands that chose morality over profits.
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