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Sustainability Performance Benchmark for Costco Wholesale Corporation

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability metrics site CSRHub recently updated its ratings on Costco Wholesale Corporation and the 30 companies in the Grocery and Related Product Wholesalers industry.  Costco’s overall rating currently is 53 after the most recent updates to their CSRHub page.[csrhubwidget company="Costco-Wholesale-Corporation" size="650x100" hash="c9c0f7"]

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The average rating for the other companies in the Grocery and Related Product Wholesalers industry is 56. Costco moved up and is currently in 10th place on the list, using the CSRHub average user profile. You can see more information about Costco Wholesale Corporation at their CSRHub page here.

Costco has a score of 56 in the Environment area.  This is due to a score in the Energy and Climate Change category of 58—above the average for this industry of 54.  The area with the greatest opportunity for improvement for Costco is the Community Dev and Philanthropy category.  Here, Costco gets a 33—well below the industry average which is 52.

See Costco Wholesale Corporation’s Social Responsibility website here.

CSRHub ratings are on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the highest. To see more on how CSRHub creates a score and the CSRHub rating rules, visit here.

CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on 8,900 companies from 135 industries in 102 countries. By aggregating and normalizing the information from 325+ data sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links millions of rating elements back to their source. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.

 

Published by CSRHub Blogging June 23, 2014