CRH PLC - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

CRH PLC is Medium Risk.

CRH plc is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	Lower Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	Medium Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

CRH integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Supplier Code of Conduct: “Quantify and disclose GHG emissions in regard to Scope 1 and 2 to evaluate decarbonization performance and supply information about carbon footprint and Environmental Product Declarations, when required” (1). The company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

CRH does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1). The company’s charitable giving focus areas are “efforts to safeguard the health, safety and environmental well-being of their neighborhoods and to support the schools, charities, and nonprofit organizations around them” (2).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

CRH appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its Corporate Governance Guidelines: “The process to identify, evaluate and appoint a non-management Director with the suitable experience, skills and time commitment takes into account both the needs of the Group and the diversity, tenure, skills and experience of existing Board members” (1). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

CRH is aligned with the Paris Agreement, which entails a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a Global Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Council (2). CRH supports DEI within its business practices. From its Inclusion and Diversity page: “Inclusion is leveraging the diversity in our workforce to achieve full participation and optimum performance” (3). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2024 Sustainability Report: “We believe that the scope of this report addresses the most relevant ESG aspects of our organization”. The company also employs a Head of Corporate Sustainability Reporting & ESG Engagement (4).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

CRH has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

CRH has not used its PAC donations or lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).