BMW jumps on "most sustainable automaker in the world" title
Time for a new "green" award for BMW: SAM Group announced that the Bavarian marque got its fourth-in-a-row Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) award. According to BMW, this new award certifies that they're the most sustainable automaker in the world. How did DJSI make the selection? According to their website, they analyzed "corporate economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, branding, climate change mitigation, supply chain standards and labor practices."
If you want the complete list of the winners into the 19 categories, here you go: adidas (Personal & Household Goods), Air France-KLM (Travel & Leisure), ANZ Banking Group (Banks), BASF (Chemicals), BMW (Automobiles), BT Group (Telecommunications), ENI (Oil & Gas), Grupo Iberdrola (Utilities), Holcim (Construction & Materials), Intel (Technology), Investimentos Itau (Financial Services), Kingfisher (Retail), Land Securities (Real Estate), Novartis (Health Care), Pearson (Media), Swiss Re (Insurance), TNT (Industrial Goods & Services), Unilever (Food & Beverage), and Xstrata (Basic Resources).
[Source: BMW, DJSI]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Turbofrog 3:31PM (9/09/2008)
Seems like an odd choice to me. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with the product they're purveying...I was once a huge BMW fan, and still respect their design and engineering, but I've really just lost all interest in them. And luxury cars on the whole.
Actually, in cars in general.
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bruce 3:30PM (9/09/2008)
If nothing else, it's interesting that all of those companies except three are based in Europe (Holcim and Intel are American, and ANZ Bank is Australia/New Zealand).
Interesting, but not all that surprising.
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Geefy 8:11PM (9/09/2008)
Hey, I'm a corporate ethics researcher, and I work for the company which SAM pays to research the Australian companies (ASX 200) for the DJSI, and I'd just like to add that the DJSI is a "best of sector" sustainability index. This means that essentially, BMW perform better on the indicators mentioned when compared to other car makers.
This index doesn't necessarily say that these companies are doing good, as such, they're just doing what they're doing "better" than their peers on the measured indicators.
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