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Fall 2010 issue
Socially Responsible Investing – Better Companies, Better Communities
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SustainableBusiness.com Announces This Year's SB20: The World's Top Sustainable Stocks
Rona Fried
In July, 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 semiconductors; Green Mountain Coffee in coffee.
United Natural and Whole Foods have business models with a sustainable mission - to
integrate natural/ organic products into society. Both companies have been outperforming the stock
market for years and stand out as the biggest sustainable stock success stories thus far.
Vestas (the world's largest wind company) is the only alternative energy company on the list
this year, because it is the one company in this emerging sector that is profitable. Ballard and
Fuel Cell Energy were on the list for the past two years and will hopefully be back next year when
their financial position makes more sense for investors.
Jack Robinson of Winslow
explains, "From a macro-perspective, all the drivers are in place for the renewable energy industry
to experience excellent long term sustainable growth of over 20% a year. I see this industry as
where natural/ organic foods was 12 years ago. The challenge now is to pick the winning companies.
Right now that's very tricky."
Some people invest in Baldor, East Japan Rail, JM, or even
Electrolux, Canon and Philips as ways to safely get exposure to clean energy in their portfolio.
Baldor makes energy efficient motors affordable. East Japan Railway, the world's largest passenger
railroad, incorporates a wide range of sustainable business practices from green procurement and
efficient engines, to experimenting with wind and solar energy to run its trains. Electrolux, Canon
and Philips use life cycle analysis to design the most efficient products in their respective
markets. JM, a Swedish real estate and construction company, extensively uses green building
practices which by their nature are energy efficient and resource conserving.
Conclusive
research shows that companies that outperform on the environment outperform financially. Too often,
the "green" business sector remains a mystery to many of today's investment information sources.
Creating the SB20 and the The Progressive Investor to follow the companies and news on an on-going
basis showcases and rewards companies that are well positioned as investments.
The
SB 20 List for 2004 - Alphabetical Order
Baldor (BEZ)
Canon (CAJ)
Chiquita
(CQB)**
East Japan Railway (9020)
Electrolux (ELUXB)**
Green Mtn Coffee (GMCR)**
Henkel (HNKG.BE )**
Herman Miller (MLHR)**
JM (JM.ST)**
Novozymes (NZYMb.CO)**
Philips (PHG)
ST Micro (STM)**
Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCAa.ST)
Swiss Re (RUKN:SWX)**
Timberland (TBL)**
Triodos (TBL)
United Natural (UNFI)**
Vestas (VEST.CO)**
Wainwright Bank (WAIN)**
Whole Foods Market (WFMI)**
** Denotes companies on
the list in both 2003 and 2004.
The SB20 Judges:
Terry Foecke:
Managing Director, Investment Research, Materials Productivity LLC
Patrick McVeigh: VP
Investment Research, Lowell, Blake & Associates
Carsten Henningsen, Co-Founder & Principal,
Portfolio 21 mutual fund
Jack Robinson: Managing Director, Winslow Management Company, Green
Growth Fund
Matt Patsky: Managing Director, Winslow Management Company, Green Growth Fund
The Progressive Investor is a monthly newsletter that guides people toward sustainable
investments. Each issue includes a conversation among world-class sustainable investment analysts
for their insights and opinions on viable investments in companies leading the way to a clean
economy: renewable energy, organic and healthy lifestyle companies and more. Published by
SustainableBusiness.com, the most visited, trusted source on sustainable business on the Web.
http://www.progressiveinvestor.com
Article written by Rona Fried, Editor, The Progressive
Investor
rona@sustainablebusiness.com
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