BRATTLEBORO, VT, USA & TOKYO, JAPAN - SRI World Group, Inc. and Sunrise Advisors announced today an agreement in which Sunrise Advisors will market and sell SRI World Group's OneReportä services in Japan. OneReport is a global electronic reporting network that enables companies to systematically collect, manage, and report their social, environmental, economic, and governance data. Companies can use the OneReport network to distribute their data to research and rating agencies, the financial community, and other stakeholders.

"We are pleased to be working with Sunrise Advisors because of their deep understanding and commitment to corporate sustainability," said Jay Falk, president of SRI World Group. "Sunrise Advisors' expertise can help Japanese companies utilize OneReport to its fullest in disseminating sustainability performance information to the financial community," he added

"There is a strong desire by Japanese companies to report their sustainability performance to the investment community more efficiently and effectively," according to Sho Ikeda, president of Sunrise Advisors. "We believe OneReport will bring a practical solution and tremendous value to companies. We are very pleased to offer OneReport to the Japanese market," he added.

As part of the agreement, Sunrise Advisors will undertake sales, marketing, and customer relationships with Japanese companies.

More than 20 global research and rating agencies have agreed to use OneReport as their first source of sustainability data. This allows companies to report their data through one system and have the data distributed in standardized formats to multiple research and rating agencies and other data users simultaneously. In addition, OneReport provides companies with tools for managing and tracking sustainability data internally.

Sunrise Advisors provides consulting services to Japanese companies with regard to developing meaningful corporate social responsibility programs, and offers a broad spectrum of services to enhance dialogues between socially responsible investors and the companies they are researching. sunrise-advisors.jp

SRI World Group is a leading provider of corporate sustainability reporting solutions. Through its OneReport system, SRI World Group offers companies the ability to report their sustainability data to a global network of research and rating agencies and other data users. SRI World Group is the publisher of SocialFunds.com, the Web's largest personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing, and is the founder of CSRwire,a global newswire service that features press releases and other information services related to a wide range of corporate responsibility issues. www.one-report.com

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SRI World Group, Inc., founded in 1999, is a leading provider of online corporate social responsibility and social investment information services. The company’s history and expertise in these two areas, along with its technical skill in creating and managing sophisticated online databases, has made it uniquely qualified to develop the OneReport network.

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