CPP & World's Worst Companies

Rank	“The World’s Worst Companies” (as ranked by "Better World Shopper") Table by Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (Updated May 26, 2017)	CPP Investments (in millions of $Cdn)
Rank		2016	2017
1.	Exxon-Mobil	103	34
2.	Kraft Mondelez Altria	109 343 277	165 571 446
3.	Wal-Mart*	295	374
4.	General Electric	146	177
5.	Chevron-Texaco	111	192
6.	General Motors	22	55
7.	Pfizer	235	371
8.	Nestle**	841	1073
9.	Verizon	703	680
10.	Citibank***	277	330
11.	Blue Cross Blue Shield	-	-
12.	Archer Daniels Midland	70	115
13.	Dow Chemical	165	217
14.	Koch Industries	-	-
15.	Microsoft	724	1078
16.	AIG	590	961
17.	Procter and Gamble	509	733
18.	Bank of America	319	671
19.	Ralph Lauren	5	9
20.	Comcast	34	128
Total (in millions of Canadian dollars)		$5,878	$8,380
Notes: * CPP's investment in Wal-Mart included $36 million in subsidiary Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB de CV in 2016 and $4 million in 2017. CPP's investment in Nestle in 2016 and 2017 included $2 million in subsidiary, Nestle Malaysia Bhd. * CPP's investment was in Citibank's parent company, Citigroup Sources: (1) CPP Investments data comes form the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Foreign Public Equity Holding as of March 31, 2016 (Data released May 2016) Canadian Public Equity Holding as of March 31, 2016 (Data released May 2016) Foreign Public Equity Holdings as of March 31, 2017 (Data released May 2017) (2) The list of "The World’s Worst Companies" comes from BETTER WORLD SHOPPER. This source has been ranking consumer-product companies for 20 years using the following five key issues: THE ENVIRONMENT: global warming, rainforest destruction, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, greenwashing, toxic waste, eco-innovations, illegal dumping, sustainable farming. HUMAN RIGHTS: sweatshops, 3rd world community exploitation, international health issues, divestment, child labor, code of conduct. ANIMAL PROTECTION: factory farming, animal testing, humane treatment,wild animal habitat. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: family farms, local business support, volunteer efforts, sustainable growth, philanthropic donations, nonprofit alliances, establishing foundations. SOCIAL JUSTICE : health & safety records, fair wages, union busting efforts, fatalities, discrimination based on: race, gender, age, ability, religion, sexuality, ethnicity. Other COAT Tables about the CPP Here are some Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) tables detailing CPP investments in 2017: * $1.4 Billion in 41 of the World's Top-100 War Industries * $451 Million in 14 Nuclear-Weapons Producers * $495 Million in 14 F35-Warplane Contractors * Top Mining ($980 Million), Oil ($1.4 Billion), & Tobacco ($1.7 Billion) Companies COAT tables on CPP's 2016 investments: * $11 Billion in banks making US$313 billion available to 26 nuclear-bomb makers * $5.5 Billion in firms supporting Israeli Apartheid * $6.8 Billion in banks making US$18.7 Billion available to 7 cluster-bomb makers.