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Ratings
ASPI Eurozone
www.vigeo.com
Schneider Electric has been included in the Advance
Sustainable Performance Indices’ Eurozone listing
since 2001. The index tracks the financial perfor-
mance of 120 leading euroland sustainability per-
formers from the DJ Euro Stoxx benchmark financial
universe.
The ASPI family of indices uses positive rating crite-
ria developed by Vigeo, an agency that rates and
assesses corporate social responsibility.
Dow Jones
www.sustainability-index.com
After being selected for the first time in 2003,
Schneider Electric was included in 2004 in the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index World and the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index Stoxx (for Europe). This family of
indices bases its decisions on research provided by
Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), an indepen-
dent asset manager headquartered in Switzerland.
CoreRatings
www.coreratings.com
In 2003, Schneider Electric was rated by CoreRatings,
a European agency created in 2002. We received the
agency’s highest A rating, putting us in the top 5% of
companies surveyed.
Innovest
www.innovestgroup.com
Innovest has tracked Schneider Electric since 1999
using its EcoValue’21 (EV21) methodology and,
since 2002, its Intangible Value Assessment (IVA)
model. Founded in 1995, Innovest is a investment
consulting and research firm specialized in analyzing
social, environmental and corporate governance per-
formance.
With operations in France since 2002, it establishes
ratings based on a Best in Class sector approach. In
2003, Schneider Electric was rated AA according to
EV21 and B according to IVA.
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