Covalence - Covalence Ethical Ranking 3rd Quarter 2007

Unilever, Toyota and HSBC top EthicalQuote rankingStore this angel in big sizeGeneva-based Covalence is publishing today its annual ethical acceptability ranking, giving the best ranked companies as able-bodied as those companies which accept fabricated the a lot of advance in the third division of 2007. An overview of hot issues above sectors is aswell given.

The capital after-effects above sectors are:

> Unilever, Toyota and HSBC top EthicalQuote ranking

> Toyota, Coca-Cola and IBM annals best advance during Q3 2007

> Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Toyota appearance best Reported Performance

Twenty bunch companies are analyzed in ten above sectors; the top ten assuming companies are ranked in anniversary category: Best EthicalQuote Score (positive bare abrogating news, cumulated from 1 January 2002 to 30 September 2007), Best Ethical Progress (positive bare abrogating news, cumulated from 1 July to 30 September 2007) and Best Reported Performance (positive account only, cumulated from 1 July to 30 September 2007).

Best EthicalQuote Score and Best EthicalQuote Progress are accustomed by against absolute and abrogating news. Best Reported Performance is affected by quantifying absolute account alone – it shows how companies address on their ethical achievement after because criticisms and demands. Some companies accepting awful targeted by activists accept a low EthicalQuote Score while at the aforementioned time baronial top in agreement of Reported Performance. We can accept that “ethical demands” (negative account i.e. stakeholder issues, campaigns, expectations) activate “ethical offers” (positive account i.e. initiatives, reporting, advice by companies).

The abounding Press Release can be accessed online: www.covalence.ch/docs/CovalenceEthicalRankingQ3-2007_Pres...

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Geneva-based Covalence advance the ethical acceptability of multinationals by sourcing advice from companies, the media and noncombatant society. Thousands of absolute and abrogating account are quantified, coded and actinic into archive and rankings. This ethical citation arrangement allows stakeholders to accession companies’ acquaintance by transmitting advice appear the accessible and banking markets, and it enables us to action acceptability administration articles to audience a allotment of multinationals, investors and non accumulation organisations.