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300+ Corporate Bias Ratings Available in Arabic

More than 300 Fortune 500 companies operate in both the United States and Arabic-speaking markets. Many adopt one moral and political posture in the West and an opposite posture in the Arab countries. Until now, Arabic-speaking audiences could only access this data in English. Our new Arabic database removes that language shield. Every company listed below is rated using the same publicly documented methodology as the flagship U.S. database, and is now available in Arabic. Abbott Laboratories AbbVie Inc. ABM Industries Inc. Adobe Inc. ADP Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AECOM Agco AIG Air Products & Chemicals Inc. Airbnb Inc. Albemarle Corporation Alcoa Corp. Altria Group Inc. Amazon.com Inc. American Airlines American Express Company Ameriprise Financial Inc. Amgen Inc. Amphenol Corp. Analog Devices Inc. Andersons Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) Apache Corp. Apollo Global Management Inc. Apple Inc. Aramark Corp. Archer Daniels Midland Co. ARKO Arrow Electronics Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. AT&T Inc. Autoliv Inc. AutoZone Inc. Avery Dennison Avis Budget Group Avnet Inc. Baker Hughes Inc. Ball Corp. Bank of America Corp. Bath & Body Works LLC Baxter International Inc. Becton, Dickinson and Co. Berkshire Hathaway Berry Global, Inc. Biogen BlackRock Blackstone Inc. Boeing Co. Booking Holdings Inc. Booz Allen …

1792 Launches 1st Arabic-Language Corp Bias Ratings Database to Expose Cross-Market Inconsistency at Over 300 Companies

Paris, France — 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing corporate neutrality and free enterprise, today in Paris announced the launch of an Arabic-language microsite carrying translated profiles from its Corporate Bias Rating database. The site includes more than 300 Fortune 500 companies that operate in both the United States and Arabic-speaking markets, including the Gulf, North Africa, and the broader Arab world. The launch follows 1792 Exchange’s expansion of the same work into French through the Index du Wokisme en Entreprise, published by the Observatoire du Wokisme. The flagship Corporate Bias Ratings database now features more than 4,500 company profiles. Using a proprietary ratings system grounded in the publicly documented record, companies are categorized as Lower, Medium, or High Risk, based on the degree to which their policies, practices, and affiliations indicate support for politicized DEI initiatives, restrictions on free speech, and related ideological commitments. Corporate Bias Rating Database The Arabic microsite is designed as a first-of-its-kind transparency resource for Arabic-speaking press, investors, sovereign wealth funds, regulators, trade and finance ministers, and consumers. Its primary purpose is transparency, using data to make visible a pattern 1792 Exchange has documented elsewhere: companies adopt one moral or political posture in the United …

Corporate Consistency Across Markets: New Arabic Ratings

This is a joint letter from 1792 Exchange and the Observatoire du Wokisme. 1792 Exchange is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing corporate neutrality and free enterprise. We examine the publicly available records of companies’ policies and practices and publish those findings. The Observatoire du Wokisme publishes the Index du Wokisme en Entreprise in association with 1792 Exchange. We write because your company appears with a RED / High Risk rating in our U.S. Corporate Bias Ratings database which is also now available in both French and Arabic. 1792 Exchange’s Corporate Bias Ratings database currently features more than 4,500 company profiles. As a company’s reach grows far beyond their U.S. headquarters, we have translated their profile into languages reflecting their presence in foreign markets: first in French through the Index du Wokisme en Entreprise, and now in Arabic. The Arabic site, https://ar.1792exchange.com, launching this month, highlights more than 300 companies, including yours. Using a proprietary ratings system, companies are categorized by the degree to which their publicly documented policies, practices, and affiliations indicate support for politicized initiatives and radical ideological commitments. When a company receives a RED rating in the database, it indicates that the company almost certainly engages in …

Faith-based investors should act like owners

Earlier this summer, the rating service Morningstar released its second-ever report on faith-based investing, a market that has grown to roughly $169 billion in assets. The report analyzes hundreds of faith-based funds, comparing their screening methodologies and how those screens affect portfolio construction and performance. The report offers valuable insight into a complex and rapidly growing segment of the investment industry, but it overlooks several important aspects of the broader faith-based investing landscape. ​​For starters, the universe of investors making decisions based on values is much broader than the funds formally labeled “faith-based” because no investment strategy is truly values-neutral. Every fund makes choices about which companies and industries to include, which to exclude, and how heavily to weight them. Even a broad-market index reflects a set of rules determining what qualifies for inclusion and how much representation each company receives within the portfolio. Every investor has some worldview or set of values that informs how he or she lives. Faith-based investing simply makes the connection between those values and investment decisions more explicit and, hopefully, more consistent. Investors who fall outside the Islamic, Catholic, and Christian categories examined by Morningstar may still make investment decisions based on deeply held beliefs about …

Two DEI Settlements, One Clear Warning for Federal Contractors

As the saying goes, “To be forewarned is to be forearmed.” American companies doing business with the federal government have once again been forewarned about the risks of engaging in DEI practices. To ignore these warnings can be very costly for the company, its shareholders, and employees.  Just four months ago, IBM paid more than $17 million to resolve allegations that it maintained illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion practices while performing federal contract work. That settlement was the first resolution under the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative. It was also a clear warning. Last week, President Donald Trump’s DOJ announced that another top federal contractor has agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle similar allegations. The Justice Department alleged that Deloitte violated the False Claims Act by certifying compliance with federal nondiscrimination rules while applying race and sex preferences in hiring, promotions, and staffing. Business units tracked “demographic goals” with color-coded scorecards, and roughly 150 of the firm’s most senior leaders were evaluated, and in some cases compensated, based in part on progress toward those targets.  The government further alleged that promotion classes for partners were assigned racial and sex targets, that staffing for federal contracts was managed with a priority toward demographic parity …