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Release Corporate Knights Announces the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World at the World Economic Forum in Davos DAVOS, SWITZERLAND (under embargo until 2:01 am EST), January 23rd, 2013 Corporate Knights, the Torontobased media and investment research company, announced today its Global 100 list of the worlds most sustainable corporations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Global 100 consists of the 100 topperforming stocks worldwide on a range of sector specific sustainability metrics. In aggregate, the Global 100 had revenues of US$3 trillion (roughly 4.5 per cent of global GDP) and a workforce of nearly 5.3 million in 2011. The topranked company in this years Global 100 was Umicore (EBR: UMI), the Belgiumbased materials technology and recycling company. The top 5 were rounded out by Natura Cosmeticos, Statoil, Neste Oil and Novo Nordisk. Umicore derives the majority of its revenue (2011: US$20 billion) from clean technologies such as catalysts that reduce pollution from vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. It achieved the top overall ranking in the 2013 Global 100 due to its strong, acrosstheboard sustainability performance. The company notched topquartile performance on six of the 12 indicators used in the project, including carbon and water productivity, and employee turnover. Commenting on this years Global 100, Toby Heaps, Corporate Knights CEO, remarked, the Global 100 are leading a resource productivity revolution, transforming waste into treasure and doing more with less. They are steering our civilization away from ecological overshoot and back to a place of balance with our planet. He added, on carbon, water, energy, and waste, the Global 100 are on track to double their resource productivity by 2025 in twothirds of the cases, and in an era of peak commodity prices, this makes as many dollars as it does sense.

Canada and the United States led the way in country representation, each with 10 constituents, followed by Australia, Britain and France, each with 9 constituents. Overall, the Global 100 drew companies from 22 countries on six continents. Corporate Knights uses its flagship Global 100 ranking and the underlying research methodology to explore sustainable investment strategies with investors. Doug Morrow, the VP Research at Corporate Knights, says, the Global 100 is one of the few equity indexes that we are aware of that has outperformed the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) the Global 100s benchmarkby over 900 bps over the last 8 years. It turns out that our methodology for stock selection in the Global 100 is a strong proxy for corporate operational efficiency, which has been an increasingly important driver of stock returns in recent years. Corporate Knights collected data for the project primarily from Bloomberg and through direct engagement with the 350 companies that made the projects shortlist, selected from the projects starting universe of all global mid and large cap stocks (numbering approximately 4,000). The Global 100 uses a twostep methodology. First, companies from the starting universe are screened according to their sustainability disclosure practices, financial health, product types and recent legal payouts. Those companies that remain are then scored, relative to their same sector peers, on a set of key performance indicators (KPIs). A different suite of KPIs is used for companies in each industry, depending on recent reporting trends in each industry group. Added Morrow, we feel that the sustainability data that flows into our Global 100 research model, once properly cleansed, can contain hidden and statistically robust signals about companies future financial performance. It is a vastly underutilized source of competitive information on Wall Street and in the asset management community worldwide. For full rankings and other details, please see: www.global100.org or www.corporateknights.com/global100. About Corporate Knights: Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights is an independent Toronto based media and investment research company. http://www.corporateknights.com/ About the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (Global 100). The Global 100 is an annual project initiated by Corporate Knights, the company for clean capitalism. Launched in 2005, the Global 100 is announced each year at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ends

Contact information: Toby Heaps, CEO, Corporate Knights Phone: +1 (416) 2741432 Email: toby@corporateknights.com

Doug Morrow, VP Research, Corporate Knights Phone: +1 (416) 2725483 Email: doug@corporateknights.com

Appendix I: Financial Performance of the Global 100 Since Inception (February 1st, 2005) to December 31st, 2012 The graph below shows the monthly total return of the Global 100 and its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) in $US, since inception (February 1, 2005) to December 31, 2012, inclusive. Over this period, the Global 100 offered investors a 59.89% total return, compared to 50.39% for the MSCI ACWI, resulting in 9.5% outperformance. The Global 100 is equallyweighted and mirrors the industry composition of the MSCI ACWI on a percentage basis.

The Global 100 vs. Benchmark (MSCI ACWI)

100 80 Total Return (%) 60 40 20 0 20 40 01/02/2005 01/08/2005 01/02/2006 01/08/2006 01/02/2007 01/08/2007 01/02/2008 01/08/2008 01/02/2009 01/08/2009 01/02/2010 01/08/2010 01/02/2011 01/08/2011 01/02/2012 01/08/2012

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Appendix II: Resource Productivity In order to double productivity every 12 years, a company must sustain an annual compounded rate of improvement of 6 per cent. Using improvements achieved during the 2009 to 2011 period, the table below shows the proportion of the Global 100 that is sustaining this level of performance on each of the four resource productivity indicators in the Global 100 research model.
Key performance indicator Proportion of 2013 Global 100 that are on a 'sustainable' growth trajectory

Energy productivity Carbon productivity Water productivity Waste productivity

70% 79% 51% 53%

Appendix III: Country Representation in the 2013 Global 100

Country Canada United States Australia Britain France Germany Brazil Sweden Japan Netherlands Norway Spain Denmark Finland Singapore Switzerland Belgium Portugal Hong Kong Ireland South Africa South Korea Number of Global 100 constituents 10 10 9 9 9 7 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1

Appendix IV: 2013 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
Rank Company name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Umicore SA Natura Cosmeticos SA Statoil ASA Neste Oil OYJ Novo Nordisk A/S Storebrand ASA Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV Biogen Idec Inc Dassault Systemes SA Westpac Banking Corp ASML Holding NV Outotec OYJ Schneider Electric SA Intel Corp Sims Metal Management Ltd Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Adidas AG Atlas Copco AB Novozymes A/S Cisco Systems Inc Teck Resources Ltd Enagas SA Daiwa House Industry Co Ltd Agilent Technologies Inc Croda International PLC Inditex SA Scania AB AlcatelLucent Acciona SA Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson Siemens AG Centrica PLC Life Technologies Corp Wolters Kluwer NV BASF SE Vivendi SA BG Group PLC DNB ASA Country Belgium Brazil Norway Finland Denmark Norway Netherlands United States France Australia Netherlands Finland France United States Australia Germany Germany Sweden Denmark United States Canada Spain Japan United States Britain Spain Sweden France Spain Sweden Germany Britain United States Netherlands Germany France Britain Norway GICS Sector Materials Consumer Staples Energy Energy Health Care Financials Industrials Health Care Information Technology Financials Information Technology Industrials Industrials Information Technology Materials Consumer Discretionary Consumer Discretionary Industrials Materials Information Technology Materials Utilities Financials Health Care Materials Consumer Discretionary Industrials Information Technology Utilities Information Technology Industrials Utilities Health Care Consumer Discretionary Materials Telecommunication Services Energy Financials

39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79

Aeroports de Paris Barrick Gold Corp The Clorox Company Accenture PLC Companhia Energtica de Minas Gerais S.A. Daimler AG Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd Geberit AG The Sage Group PLC Telenor ASA Vale SA Kesko OYJ General Electric Company City Developments Ltd Henkel AG & Co KGaA LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA National Australia Bank Ltd Royal Dutch Shell PLC Canadian National Railway Company Electrolux AB Motorola Solutions Inc TELUS Corp Prudential PLC Galp Energia SGPS SA Eisai Co Ltd Wesfarmers Ltd Hang Seng Bank Ltd StarHub Ltd Coloplast A/S Ramsay Health Care Ltd Renault SA Cie Generale d'Optique Essilor International SA Nexen Inc AstraZeneca PLC Hennes & Mauritz AB Companhia Brasileira de Distribuio (Grupo Po de Acar) Danone SA UCB SA CapitaLand Ltd British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC Enbridge Inc

France Canada United States Ireland Brazil Germany Australia Switzerland Britain Norway Brazil Finland United States Singapore Germany France Australia Netherlands Canada Sweden United States Canada Britain Portugal Japan Australia Hong Kong Singapore Denmark Australia France France Canada Britain Sweden Brazil France Belgium Singapore Britain Canada

Industrials Materials Consumer Staples Information Technology Utilities Consumer Discretionary Financials Industrials Information Technology Telecommunication Services Materials Consumer Staples Industrials Financials Consumer Staples Consumer Discretionary Financials Energy Industrials Consumer Discretionary Information Technology Telecommunication Services Financials Energy Health Care Consumer Staples Financials Telecommunication Services Health Care Health Care Consumer Discretionary Health Care Energy Health Care Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Consumer Staples Health Care Financials Consumer Discretionary Energy

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Electrocomponents PLC Suncor Energy Inc Unilever PLC Stockland Repsol SA Sun Life Financial Inc Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd Royal Bank of Canada Cenovus Energy Inc Prologis Inc Woodside Petroleum Ltd Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd SAP AG Ricoh Co Ltd Nestle SA NEC Corp Insurance Australia Group Ltd Banco Espirito Santo SA The Standard Bank Group of South Africa Limited Campbell Soup Company Banco do Brasil SA

Britain Canada Britain Australia Spain Canada South Korea Canada Canada United States Australia Switzerland Germany Japan Switzerland Japan Australia Portugal South Africa United States Brazil

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