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[PDF] Reporting on Economic Impacts: A Report by Business for Social Responsibility for the Global Reporting Initiative
The 2002 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines included a new set of Economic Performance Indicators designed to measure an organization’s impacts on the economic circumstances of its stakeholders and the local, national and international economy. The purpose of this report is to consider how well these Economic Performance Indicators have been used and to make recommendations that inform the revision of the GRI Guidelines... BSR selected 33 reports to review from a cross-section of companies based on industry and geography...: AstraZeneca, BAA [British Airports Authority], Barclays, Bristol-Myers Squibb, BP, BT, The Coca-Cola Company, Co-operative Financial Services [part of Co-operative Group], Gap Inc., GE [General Electric], GlaxoSmithKline, HP [Hewlett-Packard], IBM, McDonald's, Mitsubishi Corporation, NEC, Newmont Mining Corporation, Nike, Nissan Motor Company, Novartis, Novo Nordisk [part of Novo Group], P&G [Procter & Gamble], Panasonic/Matsushita Group, Rio Tinto, SABMiller, Shell, Starbucks, STMicroelectronics, Toyota Motor Corporation, Unilever, UPS, VanCity, Vodafone [also refers to Verizon]