Chemicals, electronics and telecommunications
                                    South Korea's fourth largest conglomerate.
                            Company Assessment
            (Last updated Aug 2025)        
        
        
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                LG Corporation
            
                            
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        CDP Climate Change score of A
    
    
        In 2024, 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 A.
    
            Source: CDP
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
        
        84/100 in Solar Scorecard
    
    
        The 2018-19 Solar Scorecard, produced by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, rates solar panel producers on their commitment to the environment and worker safety. Areas looked at include emissions reporting, chemical reductions plan, workers rights and conflict minerals. This company received a score of 84/100.
    
            
    
        
        Forced labour in China
    
    
        The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including brands owned by this company. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's 2020 report  estimates (somewhat conservatively) that more than 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.
    
            Source: ASPI
                                    (2020)
                            
        
    
        
        High ESG Risk
    
    
        Sustainalytics, a top ESG research firm, evaluates environmental, social, and governance risks for over 16,000 companies. Its ESG Risk Rating reflects how much risk a company faces in its industry and how well it manages those risks. The final score includes both unmanaged and unmanageable risks, and companies are rated on a scale from negligible (0-10) to severe (40+). This company received an ESG Risk Rating of 39.7, placing it in the "high risk" category (retrieved April 2025).
    
            Source: Sustainalytics
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
        
        Involvement in Rapu-Rapu mine
    
    
        This company group is under a boycott call for their involvement in a controversial mining project in Rapu-Rapu, Philippines. Local residents face ecological disasters & their effects: health problems, loss of land & livelihood, and an uncertain future. LG owns 42% of the mine.
    
            Source: Save Rapu-Rapu
                                    (2012)
                            
        
    
        
        Workers rights in China
    
    
        This company is a client of Biel Crystal, supplier of 60% of the world's  touchscreen cover glasses. This SACOM 2013 investigative report discovered serious labour rights abuses in Biel Crystal's Chinese factories including excessive working hours, military-style management, worker suicides and blank work contracts. Moreover, Biel Crystal's Shenzhen factory has been fined by the Shenzhen municipal government for 3 continuous years of polluting the environment. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
    
            Source: SACOM
                                    (2013)
                            
        
    
        
        Microbeads scorecard
    
    
        In 2016 Greenpeace East Asia ranked the world's 30 biggest personal care companies on their commitment to eliminating microbeads from their personal care products.  The scorecard was based on four main criteria: commitment & transparency, definition, deadline and global application. This company was ranked as 'getting there'. Microbeads are not retained by wastewater treatment and end up in the ocean where they are a threat to the marine environment.
    
            Source: Greenpeace
                                    (2016)
                            
        
    
        
        Corporate Rap Sheet
    
    
        The Corporate Research Project's Corporate Rap Sheets are dossiers summarising the most significant crimes, violations and other questionable activities of the world's largest and most controversial companies. Follow link to see this company's Corporate Rap Sheet.
    
            
    
Company Details
Type:
                Public company
                                                    Revenue:
                147 billion USD
                                            (2018)
                                    
                                        Employees:
                220,000
                                            (2012)
                                    
                                                    Subsidiaries:
                
        LG Electronics Inc
                            
            
                
                
            
    
        Electronic goods manufacturer
                                    Founded as Goldstar in 1958. World's #2 television manufacturer. Consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances.
                            
        LG Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
                            
            
                
                
                    
    
        Household appliance wholesaling
                                    Established 1997. Importer and distributor of home appliances, mobile phones and home electronics.
                            
        LG Household & Health Care Ltd
                            
            
                
                
            
    
                Consumer goods
                                    Cosmetics, household goods, and beverages business. Founded in Korea in 1947.
                            
        The Avon Company
                            
            
                
                
                    
    
        Beauty products
                                    North America's largest direct selling beauty company. In 2016 Avon spun off its North American unit to create New Avon, which was acquired by LG in 2019. Renamed The Avon Company in Jan 2021.
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LG Electronics Australia
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                LG G Watch
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                                Wireless Earbuds