The "World's Most Ethical Companies" award honors companies who achieve outstanding results in the areas of transparency, integrity, ethics, and compliance. Companies are evaluated across five categories: Ethics and Compliance Program, Corporate Citizenship and Responsibility, Culture of Ethics, Governance, Leadership and Reputation. This year's list includes 132 companies from across 21 countries and regions.
Sony established its "Sony Group Code of Conduct" around the core principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, respect, and responsibility, and
To Sony, this award demonstrates that its continuous efforts on ethical and responsible conduct up to this point, including promoting ethical corporate culture and implementing ethics and compliance programs, have not gone unrecognized.
Moving forward, Sony will continue to advance its initiatives in alignment with its culture of ethics and integrity.
We are extremely honored to be named as one of the 2020 World's Most Ethical Companies. Operating with integrity and sincerity is one of the important values that forms the identity of Sony. Sony will continue its companywide efforts to generate sustainable social value from a long-term perspective with thorough compliance initiatives.
Congratulations to everyone at Sony for earning this recognition. This is a moment to acknowledge the leaders working to advance corporate cultures defined by integrity and affirm those companies contributing to broader societal imperatives and the greater good.
For more information about Sony's corporate ethics and compliance-related efforts, please click here.
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/csr_report/compliance/
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