The 2013 World's Most Ethical Companies (Ethisphere)

Every year, the Ethisphere Institute reveals its annual World’s Most Ethical (WME) companies list. The companies on the WME list "truly go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically" and translate those words into action." WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today. In 2013, a record 145 companies made the list, which includes more than three dozen industries, from aerospace to wind power, with 43 of the WME winners headquartered outside the US. Since the list's inception, 23 companies have made the list all six years including: Aflac, American Express, Fluor, General Electric, Milliken & Company, Patagonia, Rabobank and Starbucks, among others.

Here is the WME list for 2013:

Company	Industry	Country
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd	electrical equipment	Switzerland
Accenture	business services	Ireland
Adobe Systems Incorporated	computer software	USA
AECOM	engineering and design	USA
Aflac Inc.	insurance: health	USA
Alcoa	metals and mining	USA
All Good Organics	food and beverage	New Zealand
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company	energy: oil	USA
American Express	financial services	USA
Applied Materials	electronics	USA
ARAMARK	food service	USA
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.	insurance: brokerage	USA
Atlas Copco AB	industrial manufacturing	Sweden
Autoridad del Canal de Panama	transportation and logistics	Panama
Baptist Health South Florida	healthcare services	USA
Becton Dickinson	medical devices	USA
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina	insurance: health	USA
Blue Shield of California	insurance: health	USA
Capgemini	business services	France
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield	insurance: health	USA
CH2M HILL	engineering and design	USA
Cisco Systems	telecommunications equipment	USA
Cleveland Clinic	healthcare services	USA
Colgate-Palmolive Company	consumer products	USA
Coloplast A/S	medical devices	Denmark
Concurrent Technologies Corporation	professional, scientific and technical services	USA
CRH plc	construction	Ireland
Cummins Inc.	automotive	USA
CUNA Mutual Group	insurance: property and casualty	USA
Deere & Company	industrial manufacturing	USA
Delphi	automotive	USA
Dun & Bradstreet	business services	USA
Eaton Corporation	industrial manufacturing	USA
eBay	internet	USA
Ecolab	chemicals	USA
EDP Energias de Portugal	energy and utilities: electric	Portugal
Encana Corporation	energy and utilites: natural gas	Canada
ENMAX Corporation	energy and utilities: electric	Canada
Ethical Fruit Company Ltd	agriculture	UK
Fluor Corporation	engineering and design	USA
Ford Motor Company	automotive	USA
Gap Inc	apparel	USA
Gemological Institute of America (GIA)	professional, scientific and technical services	USA
General Electric Company	diversified industries	USA
Granite Construction Inc	construction	USA
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB	apparel	Sweden
H.B. Fuller	chemicals	USA
Hasbro	consumer products	USA
Henkel AG	consumer products	Germany
Henry Schein	medical devices	USA
Hitachi Data Systems	computer hardware	USA
Holland America Line	leisure and hospitality	USA
Honeywell International Inc.	industrial manufacturing	USA
Hospital Corporation of America	healthcare services	USA
illycaffè	consumer products	Italy
Intel Corporation	computer hardware	USA
International Paper	forestry, paper and packaging	USA
Johnson Controls, Inc.	automotive	USA
Jones Lang LaSalle Inc	real estate	USA
Juniper Networks	telecommunications equipment	USA
Kao Corporation	consumer products	Japan
Kellogg Company	food and beverage	USA
Kennametal Inc.	industrial manufacturing	USA
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	consumer products	USA
L'ORÉAL	health and beauty	France
ManpowerGroup	staffing services	USA
Marks and Spencer	retail-general	UK
Marriott International, Inc.	leisure and hospitality	USA
Mattel	consumer products	USA
Microsoft Corporation	computer software	USA
Milliken & Company	industrial manufacturing	USA
National Australia Bank	banking	Australia
National Grid	energy and utilities: electric	UK/USA
Natura Cosméticos	health and beauty	Brazil
NextEra Energy	energy and utilities: electric	USA
Nippon Yusen Kaisha	transportation and logistics	Japan
NiSource Inc.	energy and utilites: natural gas	USA
Noblis	professional, scientific and technical services	USA
Northumbrian Water Group	energy and utlities: water	UK
Novation	healthcare services	USA
NYSE Euronext	financial services	USA/Netherlands
OfficeMax	retail-specialty	USA
Old National Bank	banking	USA
Parsons Corporation	engineering and design	USA
Paychex, Inc.	business services	USA
PepsiCo	food and beverage	USA
Petco Animal Supplies	retail-specialty	USA
Portugal Telecom	telecommunications services	Portugal
Premie, Inc	healthcare services	USA
Premier Farnell plc	electronics	UK
Realogy Corporation	real estate	USA
Ricoh	consumer electronics	Japan
Robert Half International	staffing services	USA
Rockwell Automation	electronics	USA
Rockwell Collins	aerospace and defense	USA
Safeway Inc.	retail- food stores	USA
salesforce.com	business services	USA
Salesforce.com	computer software	USA
SCA - Svenska Cellulosa AB	consumer products	Sweden
Schneider Electric	electrical equipment	France
Seabourn	leisure and hospitality	USA
Sempra Energy	energy and utilites: natural gas	USA
Sharp HealthCare	healthcare services	USA
Shiseido Company, Limited	health and beauty	Japan
SingTel	telecommunications services	Singapore
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.	insurance: property and casualty	Japan
SONAE	retail- food stores	Portugal
Spectra Energy Corp	energy and utilites: natural gas	USA
Starbucks Coffee Company	restaurants and cafes	USA
Stora Enso	forestry, paper and packaging	Finland
Swiss Re	insurance: reinsurance	Switzerland
Symantec Corporation	computer software	USA
T-Mobile USA	telecommunications services	USA
Target	retail-general	USA
Tata Steel Ltd	metals and mining	India
Ten Thousand Villages	retail-specialty	USA
Teradata Corporation	computer software	USA
Texas Instruments	consumer electronics	USA
The Aerospace Corporation	aerospace and defense	USA
The Co-operative Group	retail- food stores	UK
The Mosaic Company	chemicals	USA
The Nature Conservancy	environmental services	USA
The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies	insurance: property and casualty	USA
The Rezidor Hotel Group	leisure and hospitality	Germany
The Sherwin-William Company	chemicals	USA
The Timken Company	industrial manufacturing	USA
Thomson Reuters	media	US/UK
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans	financial services	USA
Time Warner Inc.	media	USA
TSYS	financial services	USA
Unibail-Rodamco	real estate	France
UPS	transportation and logistics	USA
Visa Inc.	financial services	USA
Waste Management	environmental services	USA
Westpac Banking Corporation	banking	Australia
Weyerhaeuser Company	forestry, paper and packaging	USA
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	retail- food stores	USA
William E. Connor & Associates Ltd.	business services	Hong Kong
Wipro Ltd	computer software	India
Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation	insurance: health	USA
Xerox Corporation	consumer electronics	USA