2011 Top Foreign Corporate Citizens

The Top Foreign Corporate Citizens represent corporations with substantial operations in Canada who are leading the way on corporate citizenship and have their main headquarters (HQ) in another country.

CompanyCountry of HQFP Rating
Abbott Laboratories Ltd.United States262nd
AstraZeneca Canada Inc.United Kingdom214th
Aviva Canada Inc.United Kingdom102nd
Axa Canada Inc.France171st
Best Buy Canada Ltd.United States68th
Devon Energy Corp.United States123rd
Direct EnergyUnited Kingdom33rd
Domtar Corp.*United States61st
Fujitsu Canada Inc.Japan489th
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.United States84th
Honda Canada Inc.Japan40th
HSBC Bank CanadaUnited Kingdom108th
ING Bank of CanadaThe Netherlands245th
IBMUnited States75th
Johnson Controls LPUnited States384th
Lafarge Canada Inc.France151st
L'Oréal Canada Inc.France302nd
Nissan Canada Inc.Japan140th
Randstad Interim Inc.The Netherlands412th
SAP CanadaGermany326th
Toyota Canada Inc.Japan73rd
Xerox Corp. Inc.United States238th

*Montreal-based Domtar Inc. has completed a merger with the fine paper business of U.S. forest giant Weyerhaeuser Co. in 2007, creating a company called Domtar Corp. The new Domtar has a head office in Montreal and an operations centre in Fort Mill, S.C. Domtar Corp. common shares are now listed on the New York and the Toronto stock exchanges under the ticker symbol UFS, it said. The common shares of Domtar Inc. (symbol DTC) have been delisted from both exchanges.

Selection Criteria: Companies must be listed on the Financial Post 500, and rank among the top 10 per cent of 4,500 global companies according to the Global Sustainability Research Alliance. The Alliance was created to assist the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World Project, and is the world's largest sustainability research consortium (formed by Global Currents Investment Management LLC and Phoenix Advisors LLC).

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