About Corporate Knights Capital

Corporate Knights (CK) is a Toronto-based media, research and financial products company focused on clean capitalism. CK’s flagship magazine is distributed as a quarterly insert in the Globe and Mail and Washington Post. As the world’s only large circulation (200K+) magazine focused on the intersection of business and society, CK is the most prominent brand in the clean capitalism media space, trusted by influencers for its unparalleled 10-year track record in providing informed, objective and authentic research and analysis to the market.

Established in 2011 as a division of CK, Corporate Knights Capital (CKC) is an investment research provider focused on quantifying clean capitalism drivers for the financial marketplace. The company’s products are driven by a research model that measures the performance of ~ 2,100 publicly traded global companies on 11 key performance indicators (KPIs), ranging from resource productivity to executive compensation and employee turnover. The 11 KPIs were selected on the basis of their prevalence in regulated and voluntary corporate disclosures and their overall financial materiality, as determined by CKC during an extensive pre-consultation process with a select group of institutional investors.

Corporate Knights Capital serves its clients through three main product categories: benchmarking reports, research reports, and investment products. In addition to its core product offerings, CKC organizes the “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” event each year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Global 100 is the most extensive data-driven corporate sustainability assessment in existence, and inclusion is limited to a select group of the top 100 large-cap companies in the world.

Access the full 2012 Global 100 results and overview here.