CSR Ratings

Société Générale, a component stock of the world's main sustainable development indexes: ASPI, Dow Jones Sustainability indexes, FTSE4 Good.

Société Générale is the only share in the DJ EUROSTOXX 50 to be included in both the Climate Leadership Index and the Merrill Lynch Carbon Leaders Europe Index.

Since September 2007, Société Générale has joined the Climate Leadership Index, a list of the 68 “best” companies, and is among eight Global Banks.
+ Climate Leadership Index
Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CLI) 2007  

Above-average rating for the sector

SAM (the Sustainability Asset Management agency which is the ratings agency for the Dow Jones sustainable development indexes), rates Société Générale amongst the leading players in the banking sector.

(1) Prevention of corruption, compliance, risk management, corporate governance and knowledge of sustainable development issues.
(2) Level of environmental management policy and system, exploitation of business opportunities, proprietary environmental performance and environmental risk management, particularly in financing activities.
(3) Development of human capital, evaluation of social practices, commitment to stakeholders and consideration of customer needs and populations in difficulty.

An approach recognized by Vigeo
The last revision of Vigeo’s non-financial rating for Société Générale dates back to 2005 and reflected the solidity of the Group’s CSR policy,  with Vigeo rating Société Générale amongst the leaders in its sector in terms of its employee, customer and supplier relations. This year’s drop in the Group’s corporate governance and community involvement ratings is essentially due to a change in Vigeo’s methodology and approach.

2007

In an analysis carried out in September 2007 for the benefit of its investors, Innovest
rated Société Générale AAA.

- According to Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) data as of 1 March 2008, Societe Generale outperformed 84.0% of the companies in the ISS Developed Ex-US Universe , 84.6% of companies in the Banks group, and 67.8 % of companies in France in terms of corporate governance

Société Générale is one of the eight CAC40 companies to be listed on the world’s four leading SRI indexes (June 2007).

- In August 2007, GMI (Governance Metrics International) allocated Société Générale a rating of 6.0 (compared with an average of 4.6 for companies in France), with recognition in the “Corporate Behavior” category.

Societe Generale Rating Summary
29 boulevard Haussmann
Paris 75009
France
www.socgen.com
Primary Listing Euronext Paris (GLE)
Market Cap $ 72.24B
Market Sector Banks
Incorporated France  Overall Global Rating as of Aug 31, 2007 6.0
Overall Global Rating as of May 15, 2007 5.5

The company has also been flagged by GMI in the following categories: Corporate Behavior

Average Overall Global Rating for companies in the same home market (France) 4.6

- 2007 ranking by Fortune: Société Générale is ranked eighth among the banks and No. 1 French bank.
Established in partnership with AccountAbility and CSR Network, “Accountability Rating” assesses the hundred largest companies in the world in terms of their sustainable development strategy, governance, degree of commitment vis-à-vis stakeholders and social and environmental impact.

- 2007 environmental ranking by La Tribune Vigeo: Société Générale is ranked second among the banks in the classification of CAC40 companies.

- Société Générale is among the six French companies in the list of the 100 most responsible global companies in terms of CSR published by the Canadian magazine Corporate Knights (study carried out in partnership with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors).
http://www.global100.org

- In June 2007, Société Générale was voted No. 2 for the quality of its socially responsible investment research in the Thomson Extel awards. 250 financial analysts were consulted for the 5th edition of this award launched by Thomson Financial, a global provider of financial information and technological solutions in partnership with UK Social Investment Forum, an association designed to promote financial products and services that incorporate CSR criteria.

Link to the June 29, 2007 Thomson Extel Surveys press release

- In March 2006, Société Générale was ranked 11th on the CAC 40 for diversity (via its annual reports) by Novéthic.

OEKOM Research gave Société Générale Group a rating of C (C+ for human resources and community involvement and C- for the environment), placing it 21st out of the 60 banks rated.

- Société Générale was ranked 4th on the CAC 40 for its financial communications (Novamétrie survey of 45 journalists in April 2006).

Société Générale is one of the seventeen Eurostoxx 50 companies to be listed on the world’s four leading SRI indexes (August 2006).