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2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies

The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action. WME honorees demonstrate real and sustained ethical leadership within their industries, putting into real business practice the Institute’s credo of “Good. Smart. Business. Profit.”

There is no set number of companies that make the list each year. Rather, the World’s Most Ethical Company designation is awarded to those companies that have leading ethics and compliance programs, particularly as compared to their industry peers. This year, there are 100 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Of these companies, 26 are new to the list in 2010 and 24 companies dropped off from the 2009 list. These “drop offs” generally occurred because of litigation and ethics violations, as well as increased competition from within their industry.

IT CAN PAY TO BE ETHICAL

Investing in ethics is beneficial for any company, even in a recession. The below graph compares the “WME Index,” or all publicly traded 2010 World’s Most Ethical Company honorees, against the S&P 500 and FTSE since 2005.

MEDIA RESPONSIBILITY REPORT

For the first time, in concert with the announcement of the 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere has published its first annual Media Responsibility Report. This report discloses the methodologies, editorial approach and financial relationships behind the generation of the annual World’s Most Ethical Companies list.

The 2010 Ethisphere Media Responsibility Report can be found here.http://ethisphere.com/worlds-most-ethical-companies-methodology/">here.>

2010 WORLD’S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES:

Aerospace Harris Corporation Rockwell Collins Inc. The Aerospace Corporation	Apparel Comme Il Faut Nike Patagonia
Auctions Barrett Jackson Auction Company	Automotive Cummins Ford Motor Company Johnson Controls
Banking Rabobank Standard Chartered Bank Westpac Banking Corporation	Business Services Accenture Noblis Pitney Bowes Dun & Bradstreet Paychex
Chemicals Ashland Dow Corning Corporation Ecolab Flint Hills Resources	Computer Hardware Hewlett-Packard Company
Computer Software Adobe Systems Salesforce.com Symantec Teradata	Construction and Engineering CH2M Hill CRH Fluor Granite Construction Parsons
Consumer Electronics Ricoh Xerox	Consumer Products Henkel Kao L’ORÉAL Mattel
Diversified Industries General Electric Co.	Electronics and Semiconductors Freescale Semiconductor Texas Instruments
Energy and Utilities Duke Energy FPL Group National Grid Sempra Energy Wisconsin Energy Corporation	Environmental Services Waste Management
Financial Services American Express The Hartford The Principal Financial Group	Food and Beverage Campbell Soup Company General Mills PepsiCo Solae
Food Service ARAMARK Sodexo	Food Stores Trader Joe’s Wegmans Whole Foods Market
Forestry, Paper and Packaging International Paper Stora Enso Oyj Svenska Cellulosa Weyerhaeuser	Healthcare Cleveland Clinic Hospital Corporation of America J M Smith Corporation Johns Hopkins Premier
Hotels, Travel & Hospitality Rezidor Hotel Group Wyndham Worldwide	Industrial Manufacturing Caterpillar Deere & Company Eaton Milliken and Company Rockwell Automation Timken
Insurance Aflac Swiss Re Wisconsin Physicians Service	Internet Google Zappos
Media, Publishing and Entertainment Thomson Reuters Time Warner	Medical Devices Becton, Dickinson and Company Royal Philips
Pharmaceuticals AstraZeneca Novo Nordisk	Real Estate Jones Lang LaSalle
Restaurants and Cafes Starbucks Coffee Company	Specialty Retail Best Buy Gap IKEA Target Ten Thousand Villages
Telecom Hardware Avaya Cisco Systems	Telecom Services T-Mobile Vodafone Group
Transportation and Logistics Nippon Yusen Kabushi Kaisha UPS

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