FORTUNE
Most 'Accountable' Companies
2007
2006
Our annual ranking of business responsibility.
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
Telef�nica
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
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 )
Most admired for social responsibility Here are global companies that earned the highest ratings from their peers, according to Fortune's 2007 Global Most Admired Companies list.
