Corporate Responsibility Magazine ranks Johnson Controls 17th in 100 Best Corporate Citizens List

Johnson Controls has been ranked 17th in Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine’s 17th annual “100 Best Corporate Citizens List.” The company was ranked on its performance in seven key areas: environment, climate change, employee relations, human rights, governance, finance, and philanthropy.

“Johnson Controls is committed to being a leader in corporate social responsibility,” said Grady Crosby, vice president public affairs and chief diversity officer. “We take pride and accountability in making the world a better place. We take great care to drive our business and engage our employees with purpose-led actions in conserving the environment and improving the lives of those in the communities we operate.”

The “100 Best Corporate Citizens List” was first published in 1999 in Business Ethics Magazine, and has been managed by CR Magazine since 2007. To compile the list, every company in the Russell 1000, the highest ranked stocks in the Russell 3000 Index of publicly held U.S. companies, is ranked according to 303 data points. The methodology for generating the list is governed by the Ratings and Rankings Thought Leadership Council of the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA)