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Some Of America's Largest Companies Not On "Most Ethical" List
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Ethisphere released its annual list of “The World’s Most Ethical Companies.” The research identified 100 companies. A committee of leading attorneys, professors, government officials and organization leaders put together the criteria. After that, the survey seems to be fixed in the favor of a limited group of corporations. Ethisphere says “companies across the world submitted their applications to become 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies.” What happens to ethical companies that don’t submit applications? Then “semi-finalist companies were notified and given an in-depth survey questionnaire to fill out about their ethics and compliance program, governance and corporate responsibility.” That is another means of making certain that the universe of candidates is not complete
Several large American companies did not make the cut: Apple (AAPL), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Wal-Mart (WMT), Apple (AAPL), AT&T (T), and all of the large US banks and investment banks. At least Google (GOOG) made the list.
The winners:
2010 WORLD’S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES:
Harris Corporation
Rockwell Collins Inc.
Comme Il Faut
Nike
Patagonia
Barrett Jackson Auction Company
Cummins
Ford Motor Company
Johnson Controls
Rabobank
Standard Chartered Bank
Westpac Banking Corporation
Accenture
Noblis
Pitney Bowes
Dun & Bradstreet
Paychex
Ashland
Dow Corning Corporation
Ecolab
Flint Hills Resources
Hewlett-Packard Company
Adobe Systems
Salesforce.com
Symantec
Teradata
CH2M Hill
CRH
Fluor
Granite Construction
Parsons
Ricoh
Xerox
Henkel
Kao
L’ORÉAL
Mattel
General Electric Co.
Freescale Semiconductor
Texas Instruments
Energy and Utilities
Duke Energy
FPL Group
National Grid
Sempra Energy
Wisconsin Energy Corporation
Waste Management
American Express
The Hartford
The Principal Financial Group
Campbell Soup Company
General Mills
PepsiCo
Solae
ARAMARK
Sodexo
Trader Joe’s
Wegmans
Whole Foods Market
International Paper
Stora Enso Oyj
Svenska Cellulosa
Weyerhaeuser
Cleveland Clinic
Hospital Corporation of America
J M Smith Corporation
Johns Hopkins
Premier
Rezidor Hotel Group
Wyndham Worldwide
Caterpillar
Deere & Company
Eaton
Milliken and Company
Rockwell Automation
Timken
Aflac
Swiss Re
Wisconsin Physicians Service
Zappos
Thomson Reuters
Time Warner
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Royal Philips
AstraZeneca
Novo Nordisk
Jones Lang LaSalle
Starbucks Coffee Company
Best Buy
Gap
IKEA
Target
Ten Thousand Villages
Avaya
Cisco Systems
T-Mobile
Vodafone Group
Nippon Yusen Kabushi Kaisha
UPS
Douglas A. McIntyre
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