CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Apr 29, 2015) - Corporate Responsibility Magazine ( CR Magazine ) has named JLL (
"JLL is committed to maintaining and expanding our role as a good corporate citizen," said Colin Dyer, President and CEO of JLL. "We are proud of our reputation for acting with integrity, which benefits our clients, colleagues, shareholders and the communities in which we live and work. As we develop leading-edge services that help clients manage their real estate more effectively, including with a lower carbon footprint, we change our industry and our environment in positive ways. Together, this also ensures that JLL remains a sustainable enterprise that our stakeholders can confidently rely on for the long term."
CR Magazine recognized JLL for its commitment to employees, and the communities in which they work and live. JLL's highest scores were in philanthropy, climate change and human rights, three major focus areas of the firm's corporate sustainability (CSR) platform . In the last year within the U.S., JLL:
- spent 26,000 hours volunteering in local communities
- earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index
- delivered estimated energy savings of 377 million kWh for U.S. clients, equal to $39 million, and reduced its own greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent, equal to 1.5 metric tons per employee
"Companies that make our list make a tremendous effort to learn and disclose how their businesses impact employees, communities, and the environment," said Bill Hatton, editor in chief of CR Magazine . "They engage in a wide range of responsible business practices, and they do so while succeeding financially as businesses. They exemplify good corporate citizenship."
Clients and third-party organizations continue to recognize JLL for its ethics, corporate citizenship and commitment to being an employer of choice. In the last year, Ethisphere named JLL a "World's Most Ethical Company" for the eighth year. JLL was named a Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality by Human Rights Campaign™, a Top Workplace in cities across the U.S., and a "Most Admired" company by Fortune magazine. For more information, see JLL's ongoing list of awards and recognition .
The 100 Best Corporate Citizens List documents 303 data points of disclosure and performance measures -- collected from publicly available information in several key categories. The list ranks the Russell 1000 Index. Visit www.thecro.com to access the full 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
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About Corporate Responsibility Magazine
SharedXpertise Media LLC is the publisher of CR Magazine ( www.thecro.com ), the leading voice of the corporate responsibility profession and the publisher of the 100 Best Corporate Citizen's List , which has been ranked one of America's three most-important business rankings according to PR Week .
SharedXpertise alongside the Corporate Responsibility Association ( www.corporateresponsibilityassociation.org ) are also co-founders of the COMMIT!Forum, recognized worldwide as the leading event for corporate responsibility practitioners.
About the 100 Best Corporate Citizen's List
The 100 Best Corporate Citizens List was first published in 1999 in Business Ethics Magazine , and has been managed by CR Magazine since 2007. To compile the list, every company in the Russell 1000, the highest ranked stocks in the Russell 3000 Index of publicly held U.S. companies, is ranked according to 303 data points. The methodology for generating the list is governed by a Ratings and Rankings Committee of the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA).
Contact: Gayle Kantro Phone: +1 312 228 2975 Email: Gayle.Kantro@am.jll.com Caroline Brooks Phone: +1 312 228 3943 Email: Caroline.Brooks@am.jll.com
