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Business
Ethics Names Kodak Among "Best Corporate Citizens"
in Annual List
Eastman
Kodak Company ranks among the "100 Best Corporate
Citizens" for 2004, according to Business Ethics
magazine. This is the fourth year that Kodak has appeared
on the "Best" list, which is based on an analysis
of 1,000 companies. Kodak ranked 58th on the publication's
list.
Business
Ethics issued its list of the 100 Best Corporate
Citizens this week. Now in its fifth year, the ranking
is based on quantitative measures of corporate service
to seven stakeholder groups: shareholders, employees,
customers, the community, the environment, overseas
stakeholders, and women and minorities.
Business
Ethics praised Kodak's cutting-edge, anti-discrimination
policies for gay, bisexual, and transgender employees.
The company also scored favorably in the rankings for
its fair treatment of minorities and women, and employees
overall.
"We're
proud to have again been recognized by Business Ethics
as a responsible corporate citizen," said Chairman
and CEO Daniel A. Carp. "Our inclusion on the list
of most responsible companies reflects our employees'
tireless efforts to build what we call a Winning and
Inclusive Culture. Kodak people have made trust, respect,
and integrity the cornerstones of how we interact with
customers, suppliers, shareholders, and each other.
This recognition really belongs to all our employees."
Business
Ethics magazine covers corporate governance, financial
disclosure, decision-making, incentive and corporate
responsibility issues. The magazine is published by
Mavis Publications Inc./ Economic Democracy Project.
The ranking identifies companies among the Russell 1000
-- the largest publicly traded companies -- that excel
at serving a variety of stakeholders well.
The
100 Best Corporate Citizens story will appear in the
spring issue of Business Ethics, which focuses on efforts
to bring greater social responsibility into business.
For more information, plus the full list and story,
see http://www.business-ethics.com/100best.html.
About
Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share,
print and view images - for memories, for information,
for entertainment. The company is a major participant
in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of
devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure
(online networks and delivery systems for images) and
services & media (software, film and paper enabling
people to access, analyze and print images). With sales
of $13.3 billion in 2003, the company comprises several
businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry
with traditional and digital image capture and output
products and services; Commercial Printing, offering
on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems;
Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and
storage products and services to businesses and government;
Display & Components, which designs and manufactures
state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays
as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics
and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers;
and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers,
professionals and cinematographers with digital and
traditional products and services.
For
additional information about Kodak, visit www.kodak.com.
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