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FTSE Group, the award-winning global index provider, today confirms the results of the September review of the FTSE4Good global index series. An additional 42 companies worldwide have met the FTSE4Good Corporate Responsibility (CR) standards and will be added to the index series. Globally, 24 existing constituents will be removed from the index as they no longer meet the criteria. The largest number of new companies from one country is from the UK (22). Changes to the index will take place after the close of the markets on Friday 21st of September 2007.
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 |
| 1 | - | 1 | - | ||
| 1 | - | 1 | - | ||
| 2 | - | 22 | - | ||
| 1 | - | 4 | 16 | ||
| 9 | 7 | - | 1 | ||
| TOTAL | 42 | 24 | |||
The FTSE4Good criteria cover areas of environmental sustainability, developing positive relationships with stakeholders and upholding and supporting universal human rights. 24 companies will be removed from the index next week because they no longer meet supply chain labour standards, human rights, countering bribery, or environmental criteria.
FTSE recently launched new FTSE4Good climate change criteria on 6th February 2007. The first phase of these criteria will be applied to high impact companies at the March 2008 FTSE4Good index series review.
