2014 Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada Ranking announced

(TORONTO, Ontario, June 4, 2014) – Corporate Knights today released its Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada list, the definitive annual ranking of Canada’s top corporate citizens.

The ranking, which is in its 13th year, transparently measures a diverse range of Canadian enterprises on a suite of 12 sustainability metrics, including greenhouse gas productivity, per cent of taxes paid, health and safety performance and pension fund quality. To ensure “apples to apples” comparisons, companies are ranked exclusively against their industry peers, and scored on a 0-100% scale using only those metrics that are widely disclosed in their respective industries.

The Best Corporate Citizen for 2014 is Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), a leading clothing and sporting equipment retailer. MEC came in with top quartile performance on six metrics, including carbon productivity, waste productivity and CEO-to-average employee pay.

The Corporate Knights Best 50 methodology for grading corporate citizenship, developed with financial support from Industry Canada, has helped clarify and raise the rigour and professionalism of what it means to be a good corporate citizen.

“Organizations named to the Best 50 represent the best in corporate sustainability performance,” says Doug Morrow, Managing Director, Corporate Knights Capital. “They epitomize the concept of doing more with less.”

An overview of the methodology for the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada ranking is available at www.corporateknights.com/Best50_2014 and in the Best 50 2014 issue (Vol. 13.3) of Corporate Knights magazine, found in the Globe and Mail on June 4.

rank	company	industry group	score
1	Mountain Equipment Co-op	Consumer Durables & Apparel	71.63%
2	Vancouver City Savings Credit Union	Banks	69.85%
3	Bombardier	Capital Goods	62.97%
4	Tim Hortons	Consumer Services	62.74%
5	Mouvement des Caisses Desjardins	Banks	58.51%
6	Teck Resources	Materials	58.36%
7	Co-operators Group	Insurance	57.98%
8	Husky Energy	Energy	56.98%
9	Toronto-Dominion Bank	Banks	56.04%
10	Cenovus Energy	Energy	55.84%
11	Suncor Energy	Energy	55.50%
12	Royal Bank of Canada	Banks	55.46%
13	HSBC Bank Canada	Banks	54.88%
14	Capital Power	Utilities	54.54%
15	EPCOR Utilities	Utilities	54.47%
16	Intact Financial	Insurance	54.09%
17	BCE	Telecommunication Services	52.53%
18	Transat AT	Consumer Services	51.87%
19	Enbridge	Energy	51.27%
20	Canadian National Railway	Transportation	51.25%
21	Encana	Energy	51.15%
22	Sun Life Financial	Insurance	50.40%
23	Bank of Montreal	Banks	49.67%
24	Enmax	Utilities	49.65%
25	Canada Post	Comm. & Professional Services	48.89%
26	Domtar	Materials	48.36%
27	Kinross Gold	Materials	47.99%
28	TELUS	Telecommunications Services	47.80%
29	Celestica	Technology Hardware & Equipment	46.75%
30	Cascades	Materials	46.73%
31	Ontario Power Generation	Utilities	46.48%
32	Yamana Gold	Materials	46.46%
33	Bank of Nova Scotia	Banks	45.97%
34	Hydro-Québec	Utilities	45.26%
35	TransAlta	Utilities	44.50%
36	Canadian Tire	Retailing	44.48%
37	Rogers Communications	Telecommunication Services	43.13%
38	TMX Group	Diversified Financials	42.61%
39	Stantec	Comm. & Professional Services	42.59%
40	TransCanada	Energy	42.53%
41	TC Transcontinental	Comm. & Professional Services	40.16%
42	British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority	Utilities	39.71%
43	Westjet Airlines	Transportation	38.86%
44	The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board	Utilities	38.36%
45	Catalyst Paper	Materials	37.24%
46	Talisman Energy	Energy	36.11%
47	Resolute Forest Products	Materials	35.72%
48	Canadian Pacific Railway	Transportation	35.43%
49	Federated Co-operatives Limited	Comm. & Professional Services	35.06%
50	Loblaw Companies	Food & Staples Retailing	34.18%

For information contact:

Toby Heaps, President & CEO, Corporate Knights

toby@corporateknights.com

416-203-4674

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Doug Morrow, Managing Director, Corporate Knights Capital

doug@corporateknights.com

416-272-5483

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Michael Yow, Lead Analyst, Corporate Knights Capital

Michael@corporateknights.com

647-686-0251