Our company’s performance as reflected by external assessments

In 2009, Deutsche Post DHL was honoured with the German Sustainability Award in the category of Most Sustainable Strategy. In addition, our performance in terms of sustainability was reviewed by qualified agencies. Sustainable management and visible attention to corporate responsibility are becoming more and more important as criteria for making investment decisions on financial markets as well. According to oekom Research AG, the volume of retail funds oriented towards sustainability in 2009 was €29 billion in Germany and even €53 billion in Europe. Sustainable Asset Management gave us a rating of 91 out of 100 points (previous year: 65 points). We scored the highest in the categories of environment, corporate citizenship, social reporting and occupational health and safety. The average score for transport and logistics companies was 61 points.

The FTSE4Good Index confirmed our company’s membership. We are again listed in the Advanced Sustainability Performance Index Eurozone maintained by the French rating agency Vigeo and are also listed in the FTSE KLD Global Climate 100 Index along with other indices of the FTSE KLD index series. The Carbon Disclosure Project gave us a rating of 63 out of 100 points (previous year: 66 points).