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FTSE4Good Review - 42 Companies Join, 24 Companies Leave Leading SRI Index Series

Date 08/09/2005

Global index company FTSE Group today confirms the results of the latest FTSE4Good Index Review. A total of 42 companies worldwide have met the stringent CSR criteria and will join the leading social responsible investment (SRI) index, while 24 companies will be deleted.

From the UK, 15 companies will be added, while four will be removed.

Adds

A & J Mucklow Group

Rathbone Brothers

Abbot Group

Somerfield

First Choice Holidays

St Ives

Hays

T&F Informa Group

Interserve

The Maiden Group

Low & Bonar

UMECO

Marshalls

White Young Green

William Hill

Deletes

Freeport

The Unite Group

The Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries

Woolworths Group

Mark Makepeace, Chief Executive, FTSE Group commented, “FTSE operates an engagement programme throughout the year to support and assist companies to understand and meet the FTSE4Good criteria. This is what gives FTSE4Good its unique benefit, it works not only to facilitate investment in companies demonstrating good CSR management, but also as a valuable source for listed companies to benchmark themselves against current best practice standards.”

A full list of all companies in the FTSE4Good Index Series, including the additions and deletions announced today can be found at http://www.ftse.com.

These changes will be applied to the index series when markets open on Monday 19th September.