Standard Bank Group ranked South Africa’s greenest company
Standard Bank Group has been ranked South Africa's "greenest" company in the 2012 Newsweek Green Rankings.
Standard Bank Group was ranked 21st globally in the Financial Sector category and 64th overall. Other South African companies included in the rankings were MTN, Bidvest and Sasol.
Newsweek, an international weekly news magazine, publishes the Green Rankings annually, focusing on the largest publicly traded companies in America (US 500 list) and worldwide (Global 500 list). Each list consists of the largest 500 companies by revenue, market capitalisation, and number of employees, as at 30 June 2012.
To produce the 2012 Green Rankings, Newsweek collaborated with leading environmental research providers, Trucost and Sustainalytics, to assess each company's environmental fo...