The JUST 100 recognizes American corporate
leadership on business issues prioritized by the public
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ), a leading global business services company
that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases,
proudly announced that it was named one of America’s Most JUST
Companies, recognizing its commitment to serving its workers,
customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders.
JUST Capital, along with CNBC, today released its annual JUST
100 list as part of its 2024 Rankings of America’s Most JUST
Companies. The Rankings measure how the nation’s largest
corporations are performing on the business issues that matter most
to Americans. The issues – which include paying a fair, living
wage; supporting workforce retention, advancement, and training;
offering valuable products and services while protecting customer
privacy; use of sustainable materials, and more – are defined
annually by an extensive nationwide polling process conducted on a
fully representative basis. The top 100 companies – the JUST 100 –
are determined by scoring performance across the full range of
criteria and comparing companies head-to-head.
“Being recognized by JUST Capital as one of America’s Most JUST
Companies demonstrates our commitment to serve our customers with
passion and purpose, strengthen the communities where we live and
work, and invest in reducing our impact on the environment while
helping our client partners to do the same,” said Assurant
President and CEO Keith Demmings. “Our success is grounded in our
values and commitments to building a more sustainable business for
all stakeholders.”
JUST Capital is an independent nonprofit that demonstrates how
just business – defined by the priorities of the public – is better
business. JUST Capital has found companies that prioritize all
their stakeholders not only don’t suffer consequences for
investments beyond short-term profit maximization, they even tend
to outperform their peers.
Compared to their Russell 1000 peers, companies in the JUST 100
on average:
- Pay 11.8 percentage points more of their workers a family
sustaining living wage (78.3%).
- Provide 7.2 more hours of career development
training per employee.
- Offer 2 more weeks of paid parental leave for both
primary caregivers and secondary caregivers.
- Intake 99% less water per revenue dollar.
- Emit 42% less metric tons of CO2 per revenue
dollar.
- Use 29.6 percentage points more renewable energy as a
proportion of their total energy use.
- Have a 4% higher profit margin, 2.9% higher
return on equity, and 1.2% higher dividend
yield.
“American capitalism has to work for more Americans. For this to
happen, the private sector, and especially big corporations, must
take the lead in creating value for all their stakeholders,” said
JUST Capital CEO Martin Whittaker. “That’s exactly what the JUST
100 are doing. They show that just business is better
business.”
For the annual Rankings, JUST Capital collects and analyzes
corporate data to evaluate the 1,000 largest public U.S. companies
across 20 Issues identified through comprehensive, ongoing public
opinion research on Americans’ attitudes toward responsible
corporate behavior. JUST Capital has engaged more than 170,000
participants, on a fully representative basis, since 2015.
CNBC will delve into the data, highlighting company-specific
results and showcasing key stakeholder performance stories about
this year’s JUST 100 leaders across the network’s broadcast and
digital platforms at cnbc.com/just100. An exploration of the JUST
100 companies can be found at justcapital.com/rankings.
More information about Assurant’s commitment to building a more
sustainable business for all stakeholders can be found in its 2023
Sustainability Report.
About the Methodology
Since 2015, JUST Capital has surveyed more than 170,000
Americans on what Issues they believe U.S. companies should
prioritize when it comes to just business behavior. Those Issues
become the foundation by which we track, analyze, and incentivize
corporate behavior change, including the Rankings of America’s Most
JUST Companies. JUST evaluated 937 companies across 5 stakeholders,
20 Issues, and 236 raw data points to produce the 2024 Rankings,
featuring the JUST 100 and Industry Leader lists.
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About Assurant
Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ) is a leading global business services
company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer
purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries,
Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by
partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative
solutions and to deliver an enhanced customer experience through
mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle
protection services, renters’ insurance, lender-placed insurance
products and other specialty products.
Learn more at assurant.com.
About JUST Capital
The mission of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit, is to
demonstrate how just business – defined by the priorities of the
public – is better business. Our goal is to help companies create
value for all their stakeholders – their workers, customers,
communities, the environment, and shareholders – by focusing on the
issues that matter most to Americans. To date, we’ve polled more
than 170,000 Americans on the issues they believe companies should
prioritize when it comes to just business behavior, and those
insights guide our work. We believe that business and markets can
and must be a force for the greater good and that by shifting the
resources of the $21.6 trillion private sector, we can drive
competition to build a better future for all. Our research,
rankings, indexes, initiatives, and new offerings like the JUST
Jobs Scorecard help track, analyze, incentivize, and scale
corporate stakeholder performance. JUST Capital publishes the
annual list of America’s Most JUST Companies, the JUST 100, in
partnership with CNBC. To learn more, visit:
www.JUSTCapital.com.
About CNBC
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing
real-time financial market coverage and business content consumed
by more than half a billion people per month across all platforms.
The network's 15 live hours a day of news programming in North
America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at
CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes
reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a
mix of reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series
produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house
documentaries.
CNBC also offers content through its vast portfolio of digital
products such as: CNBC.com, which provides financial market news
and information to CNBC’s investor audience; CNBC Make It, a
digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you
earn, save and spend your money; CNBC PRO, a premium service that
provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile
apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant
and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including
Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs.
To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.
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