UK
companies are getting more involved in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
according to the latest index by Business in the Community.
The
second Corporate Responsibility Index results have shown an increase of 14 per
cent in the number of companies participating, with the average score for the
Index up from 68 per cent to 80 per cent.
The
Corporate Responsibility Index has been developed to ensure a systematic
approach to managing, measuring and reporting on the various impacts that
companies have upon society and their environment.
Corporate
Responsibility Index 2003 Top 100
Rank Company
1 National Grid Transco
2 BP
3 Unilever
4 Veolia Water UK
5 Aviva
6 Waste Recycling Group
7 Co-operative Bank
8 J Sainsbury
9 Barclays
10 Rolls-Royce Group
11 BT Group
12 ScottishPower
13 Lloyds TSB Group
14 Shields Environmental
15 Safeway
16 Rio Tinto
17 Imperial Chemical Industries
18 Marks & Spencer
19 Tesco
20 BHP Billiton
21 United Utilities
22 Friends Provident
23 Reed Elsevier
24 Allied Domecq
25 BOC Group
26 BAA
27 Royal Bank of Scotland Group
28 ISIS Asset Management
29 HBOS
30 Boots Group
31 Severn Trent
32 mmO2
33 Carillion
34 Diageo
35 Dow Chemical Company
36 RWE Innogy
37 KPMG
38 AstraZeneca
39 3M
40 Co-operative Insurance Society
41 Lafarge Cement UK
42 BBC
43 BNFL
44 AWG
45 John Lewis Partnership
46 Reckitt Benckiser
47 Lonmin
48 Centrica
49 Cadbury Schweppes
50 Kingfisher
51 Northumbrian Water
52 ARM Holdings
53 Ford Motor Company
54 Serco Group
55 3i Group
56 AMEC
57 Anglo American
58 Southern Water
59 Hilton Group
60 Pearson
61 Deloitte
62 Vauxhall Motors
63 Pricewaterhouse Coopers
64 British Airways
65 UnumProvident
66 GKN
67 Cairn Energy
68 Novozymes A/S
69 BBA Group
70 Woolworths Group
71 GWR Group
72 Zurich Financial Services
73 Camelot Group
74 Workspace Group
75 Granada
76 Johnson Matthey
77 GUS
78 Shaftesbury
79 Tate & Lyle
80 JJB Sports
81 Premier Oil
82 Scottish & Newcastle
83 Vodafone Group
84 Gallaher Group
85 Citigroup
86 Kelda Group
87 Unipart Group of Companies
88 Land Securities Group
89 Jarvis
90 BPB
91 Accenture
92 Invensys
93 Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
94 Berkeley Group
95 FirstGroup
96 Amersham
97 Provident Financial
98 Associated British Ports Holdings
99 Aggregate Industries
100 Hammerson