{"id":2809,"date":"2008-10-23T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/covalence-ethical-ranking-3rd-quarter-2008\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:49:53","slug":"covalence-ethical-ranking-3rd-quarter-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/covalence-ethical-ranking-3rd-quarter-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Covalence Ethical Ranking 3rd Quarter 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/CovalenceEthicalRankingQ3-2008_PressRelease_23.10.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"081023_cov_ranking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/081023_cov_ranking.jpg\" title=\"081023_cov_ranking.jpg\" alt=\"081023_cov_ranking.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: <\/span><st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><st1:stockticker>IBM<\/st1:stockticker><\/span><\/st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> enters top 10 EthicalQuote score across sectors replacing Starbucks; <st1:city><st1:place>Toyota<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, Unilever and HSBC lead the way;<u1:p><\/u1:p> Kraft Foods and DuPont appear in top 10 best progress category;<u1:p><\/u1:p> Wal-Mart, <st1:city><st1:place>Toyota<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Nissan show best Reported Performance;<u1:p><\/u1:p> Criteria gaining weight within positive news in Q3 2008 have been: 31. Product Environmental Risk, 32. Waste Management, 1. Labour Standards, and 33. Eco Innovative Product. Within negative news criteria gaining weight were: 18. Downsizing, 32. Waste Management, 1. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\">Labour Standards, and 6. External Working Conditions. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/CovalenceEthicalRankingQ3-2008_PressRelease_23.10.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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\/CovalenceEthicalRankingQ3-2008_PressRelease_23.10.2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Covalence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: IBM enters top 10 EthicalQuote score across&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":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}