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SRI
World Group and Sunrise Advisors Partner to Offer OneReport in Japan
Brattleboro,
VT, USA and Tokyo, Japan – May 9, 2005 - SRI World Group,
Inc. and Sunrise Advisors announced today an agreement in which
Sunrise Advisors will market and sell SRI World Group’s OneReport?
services in Japan. OneReport is a global electronic reporting network
that enables companies to systematically collect, manage, and report
their social, environmental, economic, and governance data. Companies
can use the OneReport network to distribute their data to research
and rating agencies, the financial community, and other stakeholders.
”We are pleased
to be working with Sunrise Advisors because of their deep understanding
and commitment to corporate sustainability,” said Jay Falk,
president of SRI World Group. “Sunrise Advisors’ expertise
can help Japanese companies utilize OneReport to its fullest in
disseminating sustainability performance information to the financial
community,” he added
"There is a strong
desire by Japanese companies to report their sustainability performance
to the investment community more efficiently and effectively,"
according to Sho Ikeda, president of Sunrise Advisors. "We
believe OneReport will bring a practical solution and tremendous
value to companies. We are very pleased to offer OneReport to the
Japanese market," he added.
As part of the agreement,
Sunrise Advisors will undertake sales, marketing, and customer relationships
with Japanese companies.
More than 20 global research
and rating agencies have agreed to use OneReport as their first
source of sustainability data. This allows companies to report their
data through one system and have the data distributed in standardized
formats to multiple research and rating agencies and other data
users simultaneously. In addition, OneReport provides companies
with tools for managing and tracking sustainability data internally.
Sunrise Advisors provides
consulting services to Japanese companies with regard to developing
meaningful corporate social responsibility programs, and offers
a broad spectrum of services to enhance dialogues between socially
responsible investors and the companies they are researching.
SRI World Group is a
leading provider of corporate sustainability reporting solutions.
Through its OneReport system, SRI World Group offers companies the
ability to report their sustainability data to a global network
of research and rating agencies and other data users. SRI World
Group is the publisher of SocialFunds.com, the Web's largest personal
finance site devoted to socially responsible investing, and is the
founder of CSRwire,a global newswire service that features press
releases and other information services related to a wide range
of corporate responsibility issues.
SRI World Group, Inc. is a financial information and
consulting services firm. The company operates SocialFunds.com and
InstitutionalShareowner.com, which serve individual and institutional
investors, respectively. SRI World Group is a news, research, and
consulting firm that advises clients regarding sustainability investment
issues and corporate responsibility practices. It also operates CSRwire,
a globally syndicated newswire service that specializes in distributing
corporate social responsibility reports and press releases.
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