Some Of America's Largest Companies Not On "Most Ethical" List

Investing

Published: March 23, 2010 8:03 am

Last Updated: March 23, 2010 8:27 pm

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

Google

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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