McCormick & Co., Campbell Soup make global sustainability index
TORONTO — Two US food companies, McCormick & Co. at No. 14 and Campbell Soup Co. at No. 89, made the Corporate Knights Global 100 Sustainability Index released Jan. 9. Toronto-based Corporate Knights, which includes a magazine and a research division, assessed 6,914 companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenues across 23 performance indicators, including carbon productivity and racial and gender diversity.
Vestas Wind Systems, a wind turbine manufacturer based in Denmark, ranked No. 1. Chr. Hansen, another company based in Denmark, came in at No. 2 and made the top 100 for the fifth straight year.
“Zooming in on Chr. Hansen, it is noteworthy that the year’s score improvements are broadly anchored across all ESG (environmental, social and governance) areas — from clean revenue, a classic Chr. Hansen stronghold, to ESG pay link, safety and diversity — and that is a testimony to the hard work done across the entire…
