Merged group joins FTSE4Good Index

Reuters and Thomson were listed separately in the FTSE Group’s index before the April merger.

“As we work to becoming one company in one year, we will identify existing evidence of best practice which we can use to underpin our corporate responsibility strategy,” said Julia Fuller, corporate responsibility manager for the merged group.

“We will be reviewing our environmental and social impact, building responsibility into our business operations so that quite simply it becomes part of the way we do business.”

Thomson Reuters is also ranked 14th in the annual list of Best 50 Corporate Citizens published by Corporate Knights, a Canadian publication. The ranking takes into account such factors as pension fund quality, diversity, pollution, CEO pay fairness and tax generation as well as environmental criteria.

Thomson was also named as one of 60 Canadian companies within the Jantzi Social Index which measures companies against environmental, social and governance benchmarks. ■