Indra makes the Dow Jones Sustainability Index again and maintains its leadership in IT services
The company maintains the first position in the technological subsector for the second consecutive year
Indra, the premier IT company in Spain and a leading multinational in Europe has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSWI) and Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX) for two consecutive years now as a leading company in IT services ranking first regarding economical, environmental and social criteria.
Indra’s reinforced first position in this technological subsector should be highlighted since the company mainstains its leadership regarding economical criteria and reaches for the first time the highest score in the environmental category besides significant advances in its social evaluation.
Indra also scored higher than last year, from 67 to 70 surpassing competitors such as IBM from USA or TATA Consultancy Services from India in the IT Services segment, one of the five subsectors the technological sector is divided into and that comprises 22 companies.
Moving up in ranking entails an acknowledgment to the company’s policy regarding social responsibility, corporate governance and sustainable development and its performances are reaffirmed as socially responsible investment.
Sustainability reference index
The DJS World Index selects the 320 most socially responsible companies among the world’s 2.500 largest companies comprised in the Dow Jones World Index. Being part of this list entails an acknowledgment to the company’s performance in the economic, environment and social sectors.
The Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX) selects the 162 European leading companies in sustainability among the 600 companies that make up the DJ STOXX 600 European index.
The indexes that constitute the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI) is being elaborated since 1999 using information requested to companies with the largest stock market capitalisation and that provides the entrepenurial and financial sectors with benchmarks. The necessary information to rate a company as eligible into the DJSGI is obtained through the analysis of an integral questionnaire and from public information provided by companies. Companies awarded “Member of the DJSI” are publicly acknowledged leaders in the social, environmental sectors and of great economic activity.
Sustainable development through innovation
Permanence in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index entails an acknowledgement to the company’s creation of value and sustainability. Indra contributes to sustainable development through innovation in solutions and services with social values which in turn improve life quality in sectors such as health and transport at the same time they facilitate management and improvement of environmental conditions and make new technologies more accessible.
This year, Indra has also been acclaimed leader in corporate sustainability in its sector among the companies comprised in the Dow Jones Global Index by the “Sustainability Yearbook 2008” which is the world’s most important annual report elaborated by the rating agency SAM, in cooperation with PriceWaterHouseCooper. This distinction acknowledges Indra as best-positioned company in its sector to face future challenges and as a socially responsible investment.
Indra is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to stock market capitalisation, and it is one of the three Spanish companies with more investment in R&D. In 2007, revenues reached € 2.167 M, of which a third came from the international market. The company employs more than 24.000 professionals and has clients in more than 90 countries.