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Corporate Responsibility
Conflict Minerals
raisehopeforcongo ... Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets: Company Rankings on Conflict Minerals 2012 ... Rankings of specific companies
COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
2012 Conflict Minerals Company Rankings
- Companies 30% and over. These companies have taken proactive steps to trace and audit their supply chains, pushed for some aspects of legislation, exercised leadership in industry-wide efforts, started to help Congo develop a clean trade. But they can still dig deeper in their supply chains and outreach.
- Companies 29% to 11%. These companies have taken some steps to investigate their supply chains, and are members of industry-wide efforts. But more commitment and action on tracing, auditing, certification, and legislative efforts is required of them.
- Companies 10% and under. These companies have done next to nothing to shift their practices toward conflict-free from Congo. They are not members of industry-wide efforts, have not taken the proper steps to investigate their supply chains, have said nothing about legislation, and are not actively engaged with other stakeholders.
▼Decreased from last year
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For a second time, The Enough Project has ranked the largest electronics companies on their efforts toward using and investing in conflict-free minerals in their products. Our consumer action guide will help you understand what actions companies are (or are not) taking to contribute to the creation of a clean minerals trade in Congo, and ultimately, the reduction of conflict there.
Use your consumer power to make more responsible purchasing decisions. Send messages to companies you purchase from, reminding them how important conflict-free from Congo is to you.
Electronics Company Rankings
The GREEN group
Intel ★Industry Leader. Intel products include processors, chipsets, and motherboards. 60▲
HP ★Industry Leader. HP products include laptops, desktops, printers, smartphones, and cameras. 54▲
Philips Philips products include televisions and home theater products. 48▲
SanDisk SanDisk products include memory chips, USB devices, video players, and digital music players. 48▲
AMD AMD products include processors, semiconductors, chipsets, motherboard, workstations, and software. 44
RIM RIM products include smartphones, tablets, and Bluetooth devices. 42▲
Acer Acer products include laptops, tablets, desktops, and projectors. 40▲
Dell Dell products include laptops, desktops, printers, televisions, and projectors. 40▲
Apple Apple products include laptops, digital music players, smartphones, and tablets. 38▲
Microsoft Microsoft products include software, video game consoles, digital music players, computer hardware, and smartphones. 38▲
Motorola Mobility Motorola Mobility products include smart phones, mobile phones, tablets, DVD players, and modems. 35▲
Nokia Nokia products include mobile phones, smart phones, and laptops. 35▲
Panasonic Panasonic products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, home theater, cameras, camcorders, and printers. 33▲
The YELLOW group
IBM IBM products include software, printers, computers, and routers. 27▲
LG LG products include televisions, projectors, Blu-ray products, mobile phones, washer-dryers, vacuums, and refrigerators. 27▲
Samsung Samsung products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, smart phones, tablets, cameras, camcorders, and laptops. 27▲
Sony Sony products include smartphones, cell phones, videogame consoles, televisions, tablets, laptops, Blu-ray products, DVD players. 27▲
Toshiba Toshiba products include laptops, desktops, televisions, Blu-ray products, and camcorders. 21▲
Lenovo Lenovo products include laptops, desktops, tablets, workstations, and webcams. 17▲
The RED group
Canon Canon products include cameras, camcorders, projectors, and printers. 8▲
Nikon Nikon products include cameras and lab equipment. 8
Sharp Sharp products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, and calculators. 8▲
HTC HTC products include smartphones, cellphones, and tablets. 4
Nintendo Nintendo products include videogames and videogame consoles. 0
Other Industries: Starting Work but Lagging Behind
Other industries that also use conflict minerals in their products have done much less than the consumer electronics sector. Enough only ranked large consumer electronics companies in this survey, because we have had extensive engagement with them and a basis on which to differentiate their actions. But the involvement of other industries is also important, and we have begun engagement with the largest companies in five other sectors that we hope will follow the electronics industry’s leadership: automotive, jewelry, mining, industrial machinery, and retail.