{"id":2252,"date":"2008-01-02T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/02\/covalence-ethical-ranking-2007\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:50:44","slug":"covalence-ethical-ranking-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/01\/02\/covalence-ethical-ranking-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Covalence Ethical Ranking 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/CovalenceEthicalRanking2007_PressRelease_02.01.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080101_cov_ranking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/080101_cov_ranking.jpg\" title=\"080101_cov_ranking.jpg\" alt=\"080101_cov_ranking.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its third annual ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in 2007. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given.<span><\/span><span><\/span><o:p> <\/o:p>The main results across sectors are: <o:p><\/o:p>&gt; Rio Tinto, Dell and Marks &amp; Spencer enter top 10 EthicalQuote score across sectors replacing BP, GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol Myers Squibb; Unilever, <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Toyota<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> and HSBC lead the way; <o:p><\/o:p>&gt; Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Toyota<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> show best Reported Performance;  <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">&gt; Emerging topics in 2007 have been: Environmental Impact of Production, Eco Innovative Product, Waste Management and Anti-corruption Policy, while the following criteria have lost importance: Social Impact, Social Sponsorship, Labour Standards and Human Rights Policy. Image source: Covalence. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/CovalenceEthicalRanking2007_PressRelease_02.01.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Publication: Covalence Press Release <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">Country: <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">Global<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><span class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\"><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><span class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/CovalenceEthicalRanking2007_PressRelease_02.01.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Covalence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its third annual ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in 2007. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: &gt; Rio Tinto, Dell and Marks &amp; Spencer enter top&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[26,101,23,18,62,73,55,29,96,38,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-news","tag-bp","tag-bristol-myers-squibb","tag-coca-cola-co","tag-dell","tag-gsk","tag-hsbc","tag-marks-spencer","tag-rio-tinto","tag-toyota","tag-unilever","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}