Tech vendors take just 17 spots in sustainable 100

Annual sustainability table ranks 100 leading large corporations around the globe

Channel companies aiming to play the sustainable capitalism card have just 17 of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations to choose from.

This year’s rankings include Nokia as the leading tech vendor, coming in at the number four spot.

Chip giant Intel was close behind in sixth.

After Intel, the third most sustainable large tech vendor, however, is Sony at number 30. Swisscom took 37th place.

The leading British technology vendors were Vodafone, which was awarded the number 60 spot on the list, and Logica, which won 85th place.

After Vodafone came NTT Docomo (69), Konica Minolta (70), Ricoh (71), Tokyo Electron (72), HP (75), NEC (79), Panasonic (80) and STMicroelectronics (83).

Canada’s BCE came in at 90, Samsung at 93 and SAP at 94, rounding off the IT-focused contributions to the top 100 this year.

Japan led the way, fielding 22 of the 100 companies rated, with the US following with 13, and the UK coming in third with 11.

The league table is produced each year at the annual Davos forum by self-described clean capitalism magazine Corporate Knights. It aims to rank the top 10 per cent of companies from some 3,500 stocks all around the world according to 10 separate measures of sustainability.