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58
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 performance of 120
leading euroland sustainability performers from the
DJ Euro Stoxx benchmark financial universe, based
on criteria developed by Vigeo, an agency that rates
and assesses corporate social responsibility. Vigeo
ratings are used to select the listed stocks, in keeping
with ASPI Eurozone®guidelines.
Criteria Rating Score
(min -- / max ++)
2005 / 01 2005 / 01
Human Resources + 52
Environment + 48
Customers & Suppliers ++ 61
Corporate Governance = 48
Community Involvement + 63
Human Rights + 59
Score scaling : 0 to 100
Human
Resources
Environment
Customers
&
Suppliers
Corporate
Governance
Community
Involvement
Human
Rights
max sector min sector Schneider Electric
Benchmark : company / industry sector
0
25
50
75
100
To extend our eco-design approach, we set up specif-
ic training sessions in 2004 to help designers, mar-
keting staff, and production and purchasing managers
apply the environmental guidelines in our internal
product development manual.
As part of a competition organized by the French
Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Schneider
Electric received two environmental awards from the
French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Develop-
ment in 2004. The Company came in second in the
"Eco-design for sustainable development" category
for the range of speed drives eco-designed and man-
ufactured by Schneider Toshiba Inverter.
The approach used for this range has reduced prod-
uct volume by 19% and mass by 23%. Schneider
Electric also came in second in the "Environmental
management for sustainable development" category
for its facility in Carros, France, which primarily manu-
factures automation components.
Indicators
All of the quantitative data provided in this section
have been consolidated using two Company-wide
methods:
Workforce data: A global human resources score-
card, established annually over the past five years
based on a bottom-up reporting process.
Environmental data: Reporting tables from the
Group environmental affairs department, based on an
annual manufacturing site survey.
This data is then reconciled with information from
accounting and purchasing reporting systems to
ensure consistency.
All of the social and environmental information provid-
ed covers the entire Company, except when specified
otherwise.
The NEW2004 indicators are produced quarterly. We
have also provided statistics defined in France's NRE
legislation. For several years, we have published
French workforce data in a dedicated social report
that meets the NRE Act's specific requirements.