SustainableBusiness.com Announces This Year's SB20: The World's Top Sustainable Stocks

New York, July 21, 2004 – SustainableBusiness.com announces the 2004 SB20 list – The World’s Top Sustainable Stocks. The list is presented in the The Progressive Investor newsletter, published by SustainableBusiness.com, which tracks this emerging marketplace. To choose the 20 companies that make up the list, SustainableBusiness.com asked five leading social/ environmental investment analysts to recommend companies that stand out as the world leaders in terms of both sustainability and financial strength. “Our goal is to create a list that showcases the top public companies leading the way to a sustainable society,” says Rona Fried, Ph.D., SustainableBusiness.com CEO and Editor of The Progressive Investor. Novozymes, Herman Miller, Swiss Re and Electrolux and Triodos Bank represent sustainable business at its best. Sustainability is wrapped around each of their business models. Each company is acutely aware of the ecological crisis and its role in ameliorating it. What sets them further apart though is that they each take a public stand for sustainability in their respective industries and are helping their industry as a whole make the transition. Many of the companies are leading their respective industry toward sustainable practices: Henkel in chemicals; Chiquita in bananas; Philips and Canon in electronics; STMicroelectronics in […]

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