FORTUNE Most 'Accountable' Companies
Our annual ranking of business responsibility.
Global 500
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1 2 BP 75.2 4
2 N/A Barclays 68.5 83
3 28 ENI 67.9 26
4 7 HSBC Holdings 67.2 22
5 1 Vodafone 66.3 95
6 3 Royal Dutch Shell 66.0 3
7 11 Peugeot 63.7 68
8 9 HBOS 62.0 58
9 30 Chevron 61.6 7
10 15 DaimlerChrysler 60.1 8
11 N/A Tesco 60.0 55
12 N/A BASF 59.8 81
13 14 General Electric 59.1 11
14 N/A ABN Amro 57.6 67
15 26 ING Group 56.9 13
16 25 E.ON 56.5 53
17 N/A Statoil 56.1 78
18 17 Total 55.1 10
19 N/A Repsol YPF 54.3 90
20 4 Électricité de France 54.3 63
21 N/A Marathon Oil 54.2 92
22 13 General Motors 53.4 5
23 N/A Telefónica 52.9 77
24 22 Hewlett-Packard 52.6 41
25 N/A Nestlé 51.7 56
26 10 Carrefour 50.1 32
27 16 Ford Motor 50.0 12
28 N/A Petrobras 49.8 65
29 33 Matsushita Electric Industrial 49.7 59
30 N/A Toshiba 49.6 91
31 N/A Procter & Gamble 49.1 74
32 21 Citigroup 48.6 14
33 41 Deutsche Telekom 46.7 60
34 N/A Sony 46.4 69
35 27 Aviva 45.8 50
36 29 Fortis 44.5 20
37 N/A Royal Bank of Scotland 44.0 54
38 23 Toyota Motor 44.0 6
39 19 Volkswagen 43.8 16
40 N/A Société Générale 43.3 49
41 42 Siemens 42.7 28
42 N/A Dexia 42.5 36
43 38 AXA 41.9 15
44 N/A SK 41.8 98
45 24 Fiat 41.8 84
46 N/A France Télécom 41.5 82
47 31 BMW 41.0 88
48 36 Exxon Mobil 40.3 2
49 N/A UniCredit Group 39.9 97
50 N/A Santander Central Hispano Grp. 39.4 75
51 34 ConocoPhillips 39.4 9
52 18 IBM 39.1 42
53 N/A Credit Suisse 39.0 47
54 39 Deutsche Bank 38.4 35
55 32 Crédit Agricole 37.6 18
56 N/A Hyundai Motor 37.5 76
57 57 Sinopec 36.2 17
58 N/A LG 36.2 73
59 37 BNP Paribas 36.1 25
60 40 UBS 35.8 27
61 N/A Prudential 35.7 79
62 44 Honda Motor 35.3 37
63 46 Samsung Electronics 35.3 46
64 N/A Deutsche Post 34.7 57
65 43 Allianz 34.5 19
66 48 Nissan Motor 33.2 45
67 45 J.P. Morgan Chase 31.6 31
68 50 Bank of America Corp. 31.6 21
69 64 State Grid 31.0 29
70 35 Hitachi 30.3 48
71 55 Assicurazioni Generali 29.6 30
72 N/A Munich Re 29.3 100
73 49 Verizon Communications 29.1 39
74 N/A Altria Group 28.6 71
75 N/A Merrill Lynch 28.5 70
76 N/A Goldman Sachs Group 27.9 72
77 47 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 27.7 40
78 N/A Metro 27.2 62
79 N/A Morgan Stanley 26.3 61
80 63 China National Petroleum 26.0 24
81 52 Home Depot 25.3 44
82 N/A Zurich Financial Services 25.1 85
83 N/A Target 24.1 96
84 53 American International Group 22.7 23
85 N/A U.S. Postal Service 21.9 64
86 N/A Gazprom 21.8 52
87 58 Wal-Mart Stores 20.3 1
88 54 McKesson 19.7 38
89 N/A Boeing 19.3 87
90 N/A Kroger 19.0 80
91 56 Pemex 18.5 34
92 N/A UnitedHealth Group 16.8 66
93 N/A AT&T 16.7 86
94 N/A AmerisourceBergen 16.7 89
95 60 Valero Energy 14.8 43
96 N/A Mittal Steel 14.2 99
97 N/A Cardinal Health 13.7 51
98 N/A State Farm Insurance 12.8 93
99 62 Berkshire Hathaway 10.1 33
100 N/A Costco Wholesale 8.9 94
From the Nov. 12, 2007 issue
*Out of a maximum score of 100
How we ranked the companies
The Accountability Rating is a proprietary tool developed by AccountAbility, a London think tank, and CSRnetwork, a British consultancy. It measures the extent to which companies have built responsible practices into the way they do business and looks at how well they account for the impact of their actions on their stakeholders. (more)
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