Corporate Responsibility Magazine Names DuPont Among Best
Corporate Citizens - Recognized as No. 1 in Materials
Sector
Wilmington, Del., October 10,
2011 - Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine recently
unveiled its first-ever Top 10 Best Corporate Citizens rankings by
industry category at the COMMIT!Forum in New York City.
DuPont was ranked No. 1 in the materials
sector. Companies were judged on performance in seven categories:
environment, human rights, governance, financial, climate change,
employee relations and philanthropy.
This is the first year that CR Magazine
recognized companies by industry, applying the methodology from its
100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
"Our 100 Best list honors transparency across all industry
sectors," said Dirk Olin, the magazine's editor and publisher.
"This segmentation bestows apples-to-apples recognition and reveals
sector leaders."
"DuPont is proud to be on top of the materials sector list in
this inaugural ranking," said
Linda J. Fisher, vice president and chief sustainability
officer.
"Being rewarded for transparency is a vote of confidence,
especially since the rankings are born out of assessments of our
performance in seven categories vital to the sustainability of our
business."
Richard Crespin, executive director of the Corporate
Responsibility Officer Association, commented, "The COMMIT!Forum
brought together some of the world's leading thinkers and doers
that are shaping our world by transforming workforces, supply
chains, infrastructures, education and energy policies. The Top 10
Best Corporate Citizens are role models for all of us."
CR Magazine is America's leading voice on corporate
responsibility, providing case studies, analyzing best practices
and tracking trends in the five primary segments of CR: energy and
the environment, risk management, governance and compliance,
employee relations and human rights.
See "The 10 Best Corporate Citizens by Industry" full list: http://www.thecro.com/content/industrial-evolution.
DuPont - one of the first companies to publicly establish
environmental goals more than 20 years ago - has broadened its
sustainability commitments beyond internal footprint reduction to
include market-driven targets for both revenue and research and
development investment.
The goals are tied directly to business growth, specifically to
the development of safer and environmentally improved new products
for key global markets.
For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to
inclusive innovation, visit http://www.dupont.com/.