ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 13, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- For the sixth consecutive year, Abbott (NYSE:
ABT) has been named the leading company in its industry by the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), one of the most prestigious
global benchmarks for corporate sustainability and responsibility.
As the industry leader in Health Care Equipment & Supplies,
Abbott is one of the 60 companies recognized for leading their
respective global industries.
The DJSI designation recognizes companies for responsible and
sustainable business, including economic, social and environmental
performance. This is the 14th consecutive year that
Abbott has been recognized for sustainability through its inclusion
on the DJSI, including both the Dow Jones Sustainability World
Index and North America Index.
"As a healthcare company, we recognize that the success of our
business depends upon a range of factors — economic, social and
environmental. Our work is aligned with the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals to ensure our efforts are focused on
the needs deemed most important to global well-being," said
Miles D. White, chairman and chief
executive officer, Abbott. "This year marks Abbott's 130th
anniversary. That long history of success gives us a particular
appreciation for sustainability, and what it takes to achieve it.
We will continue to bring that perspective and that commitment to
our efforts to be a productive and responsible corporate
citizen."
Abbott earned the highest industry scores in economic and social
performance. The company's score of 82 was more than double the
average score of 33 for other companies in the industry.
Abbott also achieved the top industry scores in nine of DJSI's
24 specific economic, social and environmental criteria, including
corporate governance; talent attraction and retention; marketing
practices; customer relationship management; health outcome
contribution; tax strategy; environmental reporting and social
reporting; and corporate citizenship and philanthropy.
In addition to being included in the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index for 14 years, Abbott was recently named to the Fortune
magazine "Change the World" list for creating positive social
impact through business. The company also was named one of the 100
Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility magazine
for 10 consecutive years, and was named the 2018 Corporate Citizen
of the Year by the Executives' Club of Chicago. To learn more about Abbott's
sustainability initiatives and reporting, please visit
www.abbott.com/sustainability.
ABOUT S&P DOW JONES INDICES
The Dow Jones
Sustainability Indices (DJSI) are maintained collaboratively by
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), one of the world's leading
index providers, and RobecoSAM, the investment specialist that has
focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing (SI) for over 23
years. Launched in 1999, the DJSI World represents the gold
standard for corporate sustainability and is the first global index
to track the leading sustainability-driven companies based on
RobecoSAM's analysis of financially material Environmental, Social,
and Governance (ESG) factors and S&P DJI's robust index
methodology. RobecoSAM assesses the world's largest companies via
its annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), which uses a
consistent, rules-based methodology to convert an average of 600
data points per company into one overall score. This score
determines inclusion in the DJSI.
For additional information on the DJSI and the changes to its
components' numbers, please visit: RobecoSAM's DJSI review page and
S&P Dow Jones Indices.
ABOUT ABBOTT
At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best
possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years,
we've brought new products and technologies to the world – in
nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic
pharmaceuticals – that create more possibilities for more people at
all stages of life. Today, 99,000 of us are working to help people
live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we
serve.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and
@AbbottGlobal.
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