Praxair Named a 2017 World’s Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute
March 13 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX) was named a 2017 World’s Most Ethical
Company® by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining
and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.
In 2017, 124 companies globally were named Most Ethical
Companies by the Institute. Praxair is one of three companies
listed in the Chemical sector and the only industrial gas company
to receive the honor. This award recognizes Praxair’s unwavering
commitment to ethical conduct through its many programs that
instill a culture of ethics and compliance throughout the
business.
“At Praxair, ensuring a culture of ethics and compliance is
paramount to doing business the right way and is top of mind for
all of our global employees,” said Steve Angel, Praxair chairman
and chief executive officer. “It is a great honor to be recognized
as a World’s Most Ethical Company and I thank all of our employees
for their dedication to our core values and making this
accomplishment possible.”
The World’s Most Ethical Company assessment is based upon the
Ethisphere Institute’s Ethics Quotient® (EQ) framework, which
provides a quantitative method to assess a company’s performance in
an objective, consistent and standardized way. The EQ framework
measures a company’s performance across five key categories: ethics
and compliance (35% of total score), corporate citizenship and
responsibility (20%), culture of ethics (20%), governance (15%) and
leadership, innovation and reputation (10%).
The full list of the 2017 World’s Most Ethical Companies can be
found at
http://worldsmostethicalcompanies.ethisphere.com/honorees/.
About Praxair
Praxair, Inc., a Fortune 300 company with 2016 sales of $11
billion, is a leading industrial gas company in North and South
America and one of the largest worldwide. The company produces,
sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and
high-performance surface coatings. Praxair products, services and
technologies are making our planet more productive by bringing
efficiency and environmental benefits to a wide variety of
industries, including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage,
electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, primary metals and
many others. More information about Praxair, Inc. is available at
www.praxair.com.
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