Social enterprise targets Tibetan yak cheese

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Updated October 8, 2009 21:03:40

Traditionally the aim of a business is to maximise profits for its owners. But there's another kind of business - social enterprise - where the aims are to maximise social or environmental gains as well as keep the balance sheet in the black. Social enterprises deliver everything from electric cars to organic vegetables and now even gourmet Yak cheese made by Tibetan nomads in Western China.

Presenter: Bill Bainbridge, reporting from the Social Enterprise World Forum in Melbourne, Australia

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