| 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.
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