Author
Ethisphere
Date
June 2009
Region/Country
Global
Description
Ethisphere has released its 2009 list of the world’s most ethical companies.
This year 99 companies make the list. Twenty companies have been removed and 25 appear for the first time. 44 companies are “three-peats” making the list every year for the last three years.
Key findings
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Sector |
Company (Country) |
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Aerospace/ Defence |
Honeywell International (US) Aerospace Corporation (US) Harris Corporation (US) |
|
Apparel |
Nike (US) Patagonia (US) |
|
Automotive |
BMW (Germany) Cummins (US) Johnson Controls (US) Toyota Motor (Japan) |
|
Banking |
HSBC (UK) Rabobank (Netherlands) Standard Chartered Bank (UK) Westpac Banking Corporation (Australia) |
|
Business Services |
Accenture (Bermuda) Pitney Bowes (US) Dun & Bradstreet (US) |
|
Chemicals |
Ecolab (US) |
|
Computer Hardware |
Dell (US) Hewlett-Packard (US) Ricoh Company (Japan) Xerox (US) Oracle (US) Salesforce.com (US) Symantec (US) |
|
Consumer Products |
Henkel (Germany) Kao (Japan) Mattel (US) SC Johnson & Son (US) Unilever (UK/Netherlands) |
|
Diversified Industries |
General Electric (US) |
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Electronics and Semiconductors |
Freescale Semiconductor (US) Intel (US) Texas Instruments (US) |
|
Energy and Utilities |
Duke Energy (US) FPL Group (US) Sempra Energy (US) Statkraft (Norway) Wisconsin Energy (US) |
|
Engineering and Construction |
CRH (Ireland) Fluor (US) CH2M Hill (US) Holcim (Switzerland) |
|
Environmental Services and Equipment |
Waste Management (US) |
|
Financial Services |
American Express (US) Hartford Financial Services (US) The Principal Financial Group (US) |
|
Food and Beverage |
Danone (France) General Mills (US) Kellogg Company (US) PepsiCo (US) Stonyfield Farm (US) |
|
Food Service |
Sodexo (France) |
|
Food Stores |
Safeway (US) Trader Joe’s (US) |
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Forestry, Paper, Packaging |
International Paper (US) Stora Enso (Finland) Svenska Cellulosa (SCA) (Sweden) Weyerhaeuser (US) |
|
General Retail |
Target (US) |
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Healthcare |
Cleveland Clinic (US) Johns Hopkins Hospital (US) Premier (US) |
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Hotels, Travel, Hospitality |
Accor (France) Marriot International (US) |
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Industrial Manufacturing |
Caterpillar (US) Eaton Corporation (US) John Deere (US) Milliken (US) Rockwell Automation (US) |
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Insurance |
Aflac (US) Sompo (Japan) Swiss Re (Switzerland) |
|
Internet |
Google (US) Zappos.com (US) |
|
Media, Publishing, Entertainment |
Thomson Reuters (Canada) Time Warner (US) |
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Medical Devices |
Baxter International (US) Becton Dickinson (US) Royal Philips (Netherlands) |
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Oil and Gas |
Flint Hills Resources (US) Petro-Canada (Canada) |
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Pharma and Biotech |
AstraZeneca (UK/Sweden) Novartis (Switzerland) Novo Nordisk (Denmark) Novozymes (Denmark) |
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Real Estate |
Jones Lang LaSalle (US) |
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Restaurants and Cafes |
McDonald’s (US) Starbucks (US) |
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Speciality Retail |
Best Buy (US) Gap (US) IKEA (Sweden) Marks & Spencer (UK) Ten Thousand Villages (US) |
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Telecom Hardware |
Avaya (US) Cisco Systems (US) |
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Telecom Services |
T-Mobile (US) Vodafone (UK) |
|
Transportation and Logistics |
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan) UPS (US) |
More information
World’s Most Ethical Companies, the full list
Tags: ethical companies, food, internet, pharma biotech, restaurants, telecom, three-peats