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DANBURY, CT - Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX) has received the highest rating for corporate governance from GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) for the second consecutive time. GMI is a leading independent governance research and ratings agency. Only 22 companies out of a t...

Sydney - St James Ethics Centre, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, proudly supported by Ernst & Young, are introducing a new Corporate Responsibility Index in Australia to measure performance in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Moscow and New York - Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" ("VimpelCom" or the "Company") (NYSE: VIP) is pleased to announce that it was named the winner of the Best Corporate Governance Award at the 1st Annual IR Magazine Russia Conference and Awards 2004...

BRIGHTON, UK - Clear Profit (http://www.clear-profit.com), a free, independent email newsletter, said today it will publish a groundbreaking independent report on the global firearms industry next month, signali...

Vilnius, Lithuania - On 11 February 2004, the National Stock Exchange of Lithuania (NSEL) in co-operation with the Partners for Financial Stability Program (PFS) conducted a seminar on corporate governance. About 90 participants attended the seminar including key exec...

BETHESDA, MD - Calvert, the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, has announced its plans for the 2004 proxy season. Calvert is seeking greater transparency and disclosure regarding environmental and social performance; greater diversity among ...

ROCKVILLE, MD and LONDON - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance data services, today announced that John M. Connolly will become president and chief executive officer of the leading corporate g...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced that Forbes Magazine has named it one of the "Best Managed Companies".

Companies in Forbes' survey were ranked on the basis of five-year average total return, long- and short-term s...

SAN DIEGO - The newly released 2003 Hospital and Health System Governance Survey, Governance Forecast: Board Performance, Challenges, & Opportunities, highlights that effective governance is a key factor in top-performing organizations. It is the first of its kind...

NEW YORK - Mercer Delta Consulting, in conjunction with The Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, today released results of a study that found that only 31% of Directors believe that new governance p...