The thirteen UK companies entering into the FTSE4Good index are Entertainment Rights, F&C Commercial Property Trust, Highway Insurance Holdings, Incisive Media, ITE Group, Oxford BioMedica, Pilkington, Protherics, Retail Decisions, Robert Wiseman Dairies, SCi Entertainment Group, Wolseley and Yell Group.
The table below shows the breakdown of the number of companies that are joining and leaving the FTSE4Good index by country:
Country |
No
of additions |
No
of deletions |
Country |
No
of additions |
No
of deletions |
Australia |
4 |
1 |
Ireland |
1 |
- |
Canada |
- |
1 |
Netherlands |
1 |
- |
France |
3 |
- |
Spain |
2 |
- |
Germany |
1 |
- |
UK |
13 |
1 |
Greece |
1 |
- |
USA |
6 |
16 |
Japan |
8 |
- |
|
|
|
TOTAL |
40 |
19 |
The FTSE4Good criteria, which cover areas of environmental sustainability, developing positive relationships with stakeholders and upholding and supporting universal human rights, have evolved since the index was launched in July 2001. The environmental and human rights criteria have been tightened significantly - 19 companies will be removed from the index next week because they no longer meet these criteria. For a list of these companies, please visit, www.ftse.com