Procter & Gamble
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Procter & Gamble (P&G) scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Procter & Gamble, increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. P&G forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. P&G was a member of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which aims to demonetize advertisements and suppress content that “vilifies” individuals based on sexual orientation and gender identity, discusses "debated social issues in a negative or partisan context" or spreads "hate speech". The company’s Chairman, President and CEO Jon R. Moeller signed Catalyst's Champions for Change pledge, indicating its support of DEI in its leadership composition through the establishment of gender and racial targets. P&G is a signatory of the Gender & Diversity KPI Alliance, appearing to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender and racial targets for its leadership composition and its support of DEI in its hiring and promotions. The company supports the Equality Act, a controversial bill and is a member of the America Competes LGBTQ business coalition. It also uses its advertising to advance LGBTQ activism. P&G reinforces the narrative that racism in the U.S. is systemic. To appease transgender activists, P&G removed feminine symbols from its feminine hygiene products' labels. In addition, P&G's feminine care brand, Always, distributed a pamphlet in the UK advertising its products to "young people with female sex organs". In spring 2021, P&G released a statement that it supports the "right to vote" in light of recent election reforms in conservative states; none of these states changed anyone's right to vote. Taylor also signed the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation and CEO Jon R. Moeller is a member of the Business Roundtable, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders. Braun razors featured a transgender person shaving in one of its advertisements whose scars from a double mastectomy were visible. In 2021, P&G partnered with GLAAD and its Visibility Project, which emphasizes pro-transgender advertising among other LGBT marketing. P&G's CEO signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company pledged $5 million to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes, though the company's follow-through is largely unknown. Native, a P&G subsidiary, has made a one-time donation to the Black Lives Matter organization. P&G funds the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and the National Black Justice Coalition. Its subsidiary Crest has a partnership with popular transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. For these reasons, P&G receives a High Risk rating.
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CEO of Procter & Gamble
Jon R. Moeller
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Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Procter & Gamble is a member of the Fortune 250 operating in the Household and Personal Products industry. Jon R. Moeller and Jon R. Moeller serve as CEO/President and Chairman, respectively, leading the company’s C-suite executive team and the board of directors. Amongst these teams, the collective leadership is responsible for $444,216 to Republican causes and $86,820 to Democratic causes. Under their tenure, Procter & Gamble currently holds a 'High Risk' risk rating.
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Shareholder Proposals
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Date | ESG Category | Proponent | Summary of Resolution | Mgmt Rec | Total Vote % in Favor |
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10/10/23 | Social | National Center for Public Policy Research | Civil Rights Audit | against | 4.08% |
10/10/23 | Social | National Legal and Policy Center | Communist China Risk Audit | against | 4.28% |
10/10/23 | Governance | James McRitchie | Fair Elections & By-law Amendments | against | 42.87% |
6/8/23 | Social | NorthStar Asset Management | Report on Racism at Company | Against | 12.70% |
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