Who Should Use Corporate Critic?
The information contained within Corporate Critic has wide and diverse applications.
The list is not exhaustive but the following customers have found Corporate
Critic of great benefit for researching, investing and fundraising purposes:
INVESTMENT COMMUNITY
Fund Managers/Stockbrokers
A low cost, credible source of supplementary information that indexes the
ethical activities of global corporations
Perform instant ethical checks on companies in your clients' portfolios
Monitor the changing CSR value of companies
Perform negative and positive company screenings
Select the most ethical company by product sector, turnover or by ethical
issue
Monitor the changing ethical behaviour and rating of the FTSE 100 (and other
indices) companies
Premium customers may also choose an 'email me if there are rating changes
for companies in my portfolio' option - to help them keep track of company
performance on an ongoing basis.
Independent Financial Advisors - IFAs
Offer an extra value service to clients by presenting a more detailed ethical
background on the companies held in ethical and mainstream investment funds
Use Corporate Critic or create your own rating system on environmental and
other ethical issues
Perform searches on banks and other corporate organisations
Use as an independent and credible source of information for report building
Reputational Risk Consultancies
Quick and easy to find data on around 15,000 global companies
Ethical ratings and abstracted reports on 15,000 companies
Compare a company's ethical performance by industry and product sector
Corporate Critic informs, at a glance, the issues of concern to NGOs. Excellent
material for creating scenarios and predictive analysis tools for potential
customers
Excellent source for 'Country of Operation' and 'Prosecutions' information
Fund Trustees/Church Organisations/Individual Investors
Excellent, low cost access to information on the Corporate Social Responsibility
records of companies.
Learn more about the ethical issues and the performance of global companies
in whom you invest.
Support and enhance your growing knowledge of SRI issues.
Become informed - challenge your fund manager on the Social, Environmental
and Ethical impacts/risks associated with the business activities of companies
with whom you invest. Have faith in your investments
NGOs and Charities
Find thousands of abstracts from hundreds of campaigning sources of information
in one place
Quick and easy to use
Perform negative and positive company screening on corporate fundraising
partners
Ideal for fund trustees to identify 'best' companies in whom to invest funds
Company updates for corporate relations managers
Students and Lecturers
Monitor and understand the impacts of good and bad corporate social responsibility
from a business, sociological, political and environmental perspective
A reliable and credible ethical information source that indexes global corporate
behaviour
The only low-cost publicly accessible tool to sort FTSE 100 companies by
specific ethical criteria
Extremely quick and easy to navigate information source
Ask specific questions about company product sectors and ethical categories
with our rating tool. Apply the rating tool across all industry sectors.
Media
Low cost access to data in a growing interest area for both business and
consumers
Add credible ethical data to financial reports and features
Support your stories with comparative company ratings, by product sector
and/or ethical criteria*
*Please contact us to discuss application intent. There may be a small
charge for data reproduction.
Marketing/PR Agencies
Find the most ethical clients to have in your portfolio
Monitor the ethical performance of your clients. Devise marketing strategies
to address poor reputation
Identify the best ethical corporate sponsor for charity and fundraising
events
Procurement Departments & Institutional
Purchasers
Locate the 'best' ethical supplier for a wide range of products (see work
in progress)
Perform searches and check the ethicality of existing and potential suppliers
Corporations/Companies
Take the lead in Corporate Social Responsibility - identify ethical suppliers
and business partners
Monitor your overall ethical performance against that of competitors and
by product sectors*
Source ethical products
*Please contact Rob Harrison if you
wish to reproduce positive data on the ethical performance of your organisation.
Aggregating Information Services
The application of Corporate Critic's ethical data could be wide and varied.
We'd be happy to contribute our data to your project. Please contact us to
discuss your ideas.