ConAgra Foods Recognized in Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America
September 08 2011 - 6:35PM
Business Wire
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG), one of North America’s leading
packaged food companies, today announced that it will be added for
the first time to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North
America.
One of the world's most recognizable sustainability indexes,
DJSI North America is based on a rigorous analysis of corporate,
economic, environmental and social performance, and tracks the
performance of the top 20 percent of the 600 biggest North American
companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index that
lead the field in terms of sustainability.
ConAgra Foods is one of four food processing companies listed on
the DJSI North America. The company achieved the food industry’s
leading scores in Corporate Governance, Environmental
Policy/Management Systems, Human Capital Development, and Labor
Practice indicators.
“Earning a place on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index is a
tremendous compliment to the work our employees do on a daily basis
to do the right thing for our communities and the environment,”
said Gary Rodkin, CEO. “Though honored by this achievement, we know
that our journey does not end here. Our employees will continue to
find ways to enhance sustainable business practices and develop
innovative programs to deliver on our citizenship commitment.”
ConAgra Foods’ is committed to corporate responsibility, and its
efforts have been focused under the “Good for You, Good for the
Community, and Good for the Planet” platform. Some of the company’s
most recent achievements include:
- Earned Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED(R)) Platinum certification from the U.
S. Green Building Council (USGBC) at ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s
new sweet potato processing facility in Delhi, La., the first
frozen food manufacturing plant worldwide to earn this
distinction.
- Engaged nearly 70,000 consumers to
raise $350,000, or the equivalent of 2.7 million meals, for the
Feeding America’s food bank through the Child Hunger Ends Here
cause-marketing campaign.
- Established a new, innovative
partnership with Forgotten Harvest, a food rescue organization, to
redirect unsalable, and formerly discarded, meat snacks from our
Troy, Ohio facility where they are repackaged and distributed to
feed people in the Detroit area.
- Named a Top 100 Employer for Women
MBA’s by Universum, one of America’s 100 Best Adoption-Friendly
Workplaces by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® for three
consecutive years, and most recently, named a Diversity Leader
Award from Profiles in Diversity Journal®.
- Strong progress in achieving its pledge
of reducing salt across its portfolio of food products by 20
percent by 2015.
About ConAgra FoodsConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) is
one of North America’s leading food companies, with brands in 97
percent of America’s households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef
Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt’s,
Marie Callender’s, Orville Redenbacher’s, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip
and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass
merchandise, and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong
business-to-business presence, supplying potato, other vegetable,
spice and grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants,
foodservice operators and commercial customers. For more
information about the company’s Corporate Responsibility program,
please visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.
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