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Many global companies that runs the program of corporate social responsibility (Corporate Social Responsibility / CSR) improvise. These companies are rarely balanced with corporate activities that are ethical.

As quoted from Ethisphere.com, Tuesday (04/14/2009) to be a company that deserves thumbs up for his behavior to the worker, environment and society with not enough funds flushed UD $ 100 million to fund solely for the sake of publicity activities to improve company image.

Institution think tank, the Ethisphere Institute based in the U.S. made a list of ’2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies’ contains 99 companies that are considered to give a role model.

A total of 20 companies that entered the list in the year 2007 should be backward in the 2008 sample that came out of Toyota, Canon, Sharp.

The 99 companies come from 33 industries judged from several criteria such as innovative, running CSR, has a good track record in the laws and regulations, executive responsibilities, good corporate governance, internal systems are good company and a leader in its industry .

As an example of an ethical companies like to sell a good product to the public and accountable, not to discrimination or other illegal activities and does not damage the environment.

Ethisphere Institute also admitted there is no perfect business, such as facing a lawsuit or exposed to crises. However Ethisphere gave acungan to companies that always tried to do so.

List of 2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies are:

Aerospace & Defense:
Honeywell International (U.S.)
Science Applications International Corporation / SAIC (USA)
The Aerospace Corporation (USA)

Banking:
HSBC (UK)
Rabobank (Netherlands)
Standard Chartered Bank (UK)
Westpac Banking Corporation (Australia)

Agriculture:
Dole Food Company (USA)

Apparel:
Nike (USA)
Patagonia (USA)
Timberland (USA)

Business Services:
Accenture Ltd. (Bermuda)
Manpower (USA)
Noblis Inc. (USA)
Paychex (U.S.)
Pitney Bowes (USA)

Chemicals:
Ecolabs (U.S.)

Automotive:
BMW (Germany)
Cummins Inc. (USA)
Honda Motor Company (Japan)
Johnson Controls (U.S.)

Computer Hardware:
Cisco Systems (USA)
Sun Microsystems (USA)
Xerox Corporation (USA)

Computer Software:
Oracle Corporation (USA)
Salesforce.com (USA)
Symantec Corporation (USA)

Energy & Utilities:
Duke Energy (USA)
FPL Group (USA)
Statkraft (Norway)
Wisconsin Energy Corp. (USA)

Consumer Product:
Aveda Corporation (USA)
Henkel AG (Germany)
Kao Corporation (Japan)
S.C. Johnson & Son (USA)
Unilever (Netherlands)
Whirpool Corporation (USA)

Engineering & Construction:
Fluor Corporation (USA)

Environmental Services & Equipment:
Waste Management (U.S.)

Diversified Industries:
General Electric (U.S.)
Smiths Group (UK)

Financial Services:
American Express (USA)
NYSE Euronext (U.S.)
The Principal Financial Group (USA)
The Hartford Financial Services Group’s (USA)

Electronics:
Freescale Semiconductors (U.S.)
Royal Philips (Netherlands)
Texas Instruments (USA)

Food & Beverages:
General Mills (USA)
Kellogg Company (U.S.)
PepsiCo (U.S.)
Stonyfield Farm (U.S.).

Manufacturing:
Caterpilar (U.S.)
Deere & Company (USA)
Eaton Corporation (USA)
Milliken & Company (USA)
Rockwell Automation (USA)

Forestry, Paper & Packaging:
Internatational Paper Company (USA)
Precious Woods Group (Switzerland)
Stora Enso (Finland)
Svenska Cellulosa / SCA (Sweden)

Insurance:
Aflac (U.S.)
Allianz (Germany)

Healtcare:
Fresenius Medical Care (Germany)
Premier (USA)

Internet:
Google (U.S.)

Hotels, Travel & Hospitality:
Accor (France)
Marriott International (U.S.)

Media & Entertainment:
Kiplinger (U.S.)
Pearson (England)
Time Warner (U.S.)

Medical Devices:
Becton Dickinson (USA)

Restaurants & Cafes:
McDonald’s (USA)
Starbucks Coffee Co. (USA)

Metals & Mining:
Alcoa Inc. (U.S.)
Rio Tinto Group (UK).

Oil & Gas:
Flint Hills Resources (USA)
Petro-Canada (Canada)

Retail:
Gap (U.S.)
IKEA (Sweden)
Marks & Spencer (UK)
arch Corporation (USA)
Ten Thousand Villages (U.S.)
Trader Joe’s (USA)

Pharma & Biotech:
Genzyme (U.S.)
Novartis (Switzerland)
Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
Novozymes (Danish)

Telecommunications:
Avaya (USA)
Roup Vodafone (UK)

Real Estate:
Jones Lang LaSalle (U.S.)

Transportation & Logistics:
Nippon Kaisha / NYK (Japan)
United Parcel Service / UPS (U.S.).