What is the CorporateRegister.com CR Report Directory?

The CorporateRegister.com CR Report Directory is the world's largest online directory of company issued Corporate Social Responsibility (CR), Sustainability, and Environment reports from around the world. The directory is continually updated with new reports and companies.

We offer access to the very latest reports as they are published, and provide an archive of reports for each company featured. This is achieved through a combination of our own research and contact with companies.

Information is displayed in company profiles and report profiles. Report profiles can display information on the hard copy reports we collect in our own archives and/or provide direct access to the PDF version.

Signed up users can search the directory using either a company name or a range of criteria in the ‘Advanced company/reports searches’.

This is a free service for featured companies and site users. The searchable directory can be accessed after a free sign up for new users, or after signing in for existing users (both available via the homepage).

Why the CR Report Directory?

With thousands of companies producing CR reports each year, stakeholders need a single reliable source to access new reports, and an archive of previous editions.

Similarly, reporting companies who have invested in their reporting progammes need to communicate with a well informed, global stakeholder audience. By providing access to thousands of these reports free of charge, we have that audience.

Other CR report directories exist, but we are 30 times bigger than the next largest service.

Which companies and reports feature in the CR Report Directory?

We aim to include every relevant published corporate report, without limitations of country or company size and across all sectors, public and private. We actively research new reports where they are not provided directly by the reporting company.

We will feature a non-reporting company if ’affiliated’ with one of our partners (e.g. UNEP-FI, WBCSD members) or if we deem them to be of specific interest to our stakeholder audience.

We will attempt to contact the companies we feature to request the most up to date information. In the absence of any contact we will maintain a company’s free reporting profile through our independent, periodic research.

We have had to take a view on what types of publications to include on the site. We feature reports and reviews – not brochures, marketing and related publications. We do not feature publications which are sales material, have no reference year, no quantitative data and no statement of policy.

Some of our featured report profiles include sections from annual reports. These sections need to comprise at least 6 pages.

If you have a relevant report that we have missed, please inform us (see Sending us Reports).

Are any reports not included in the CR Report Directory?

1. The directory is always expanding as we research or are sent new reports. There will always be reports we miss, which is why we request full participation from reporting companies and stakeholders to help us fill any gaps.
   
   By comparing the occurrence of already profiled to newly identified reports in our daily research cycles we estimate that we track at least 90% of all reporting companies. Please contact us if you have information on new reports.
   
   
2. Our free service extends to hard copy profiles and PDF hosting. We do not provide links to HTML version reports as part of our basic free service.
   
   A major reason we have taken this position is because research of other sites and our own experience has revealed that maintaining a large directory of live URLs (web-links) is very difficult. Whereas PDF reports can be held on our own servers, HTML-only reports are solely available on the reporting company’s website and would need to be linked from CorporateRegister.com. These reports can be relocated or simply removed without our knowledge, resulting in broken links from our directory.
   
   However, we offer HTML report links to leading reporters as part of our expanded PriorityReporter package.
   
   
3. We do not profile reports which are only published in non-latin scripts. This is in part due to the technical limitations of displaying non-latin script reports in most PDF viewers and browsers. We also need to be able to interpret the reports we feature in order to populate our report profiles with relevant information.



4. We do not feature EMAS statements, as this information is available elsewhere. However, if an EMAS statement is expanded to feature an environmental report, and especially if it covers several sites in one document, we will include it.



5. We will not include PDF files over 25MB in size. Files this large are very hard to access and browse, and also demand a lot of bandwidth.

Guidelines (GRI, AA1000AS, Global Compact)

We identify a number of international reporting guidelines & standards in the CR report directory (you can search for users of these standards through the 'advanced reports search'):

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

The GRI guidelines are designed to assist organisations in disclosing their sustainability performance. A prerequisite for any report achieving GRI adherence is the inclusion of a 'Content Index' i.e. an index mapping responses to some or all of the GRI reporting indicators.

There are two versions of the GRI guidelines, G3 and 2002, each with its own coding system described here

AccountAbility AA1000 Assurance Standard

The AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) forms part of AccountAbility’s AA1000 Series, principles-based standards for improving the sustainability performance of reporting organisations.

There are two versions of the AA1000AS:

AA1000AS (2008) - definition here

AA1000AS (2003) - definition here

Global Compact (GC)

The Global Compact is a United Nations initiative, working to advance ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.

We track CR/Sustainability reports incorporating an index (i.e. 'GC Index') for the cross-referencing of each of the Global Compact 'ten principles' to the reporting organisation's response in the report. A table or list simply stating the principles without relating them to report content is not sufficient.

Where "(Web Index)" is stated, the index is not available in the version of the report we feature, but is located on the reporting organisation’s website.

Using the search functions

Advanced Companies Search

You can use any combination of options to return a list of relevant companies, and you can also use these options in conjunction with a company name (or part of a company name).

You can search for broad categories, such as all relevant companies within a given country or business sector, by leaving the company name field blank and selecting the category you want. For example, to find all relevant companies in the ‘Oil & Gas’ sector leave the company name field blank, select ‘Oil & Gas’ from the business sector drop-down list, and enter ‘Search’. Or select combinations of business sector and country to refine your search.

Not every company featured on CorporateRegister has published reports. We feature such companies either because they are affiliated with one of our Network Supporters, or because they are large enough to be of interest to our site users.

To remove these non-reporters from your search, select the ‘Only show me companies with reports’ option.

Advanced Reports Search

You can use any combination of options to return a list of relevant reports, and you can also use these options in conjunction with a company name (or part of a company name).

You can search for broad categories by leaving the company name field blank and selecting the category you want. For example, to find all relevant reports from the USA, leave the company name field blank and select ‘USA’ from the country drop-down list, and enter ‘Search’. Or select combinations of country and business sector to refine your search.

‘Year(s) Published’: enter a year in this field, or a range such as 2000-2005.

‘AA1000AS’: search for reports assured using (with full compliance) the AccountAbility AA1000 Assurance Standards.

'Global Compact' : search for reports including an index mapping responses to each of the 10 United Nations Global Compact principles.

‘GRI Adherence’: search for reports using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting guidelines.

Adding a report to the Directory

Our independent research is very extensive, and we may have already located and included your report. Please check our CR Report Directory to check if you already have a listing (sign in from the homepage to activate the search). If we have missed your publications and you would like your report or reports included on this site, we will need the following from you:

Copies and types of report

We need two hard copies of all published reports, past and current. By ‘hard copies’ we refer to professionally printed documents, rather than computer print-outs or photocopies. We include all reporting categories featured on the site.

Electronic Formats:

PDF Reports:

We host PDFs of featured reports: please help us access these files (by providing a URL, or sending the PDFs on CD or by e-mail). We request permission before hosting PDFs.

HTML Reports:

We provide direct links to HTML reports for PriorityReporters only. Please contact us if you have an HTML report format and would like it added to your profile.

Contact details

Who should be contacted to obtain copies of your reports? You might want to send us details of several contacts for different countries/languages. We need name, job title, postal address, telephone and fax, e-mail.

Languages

In which languages is your report available? If you publish in several languages, we use the English version, giving details of the others. If your report is unavailable in English we will still include it.

Other organisations

If it is not evident in the report, it would be helpful if you would inform us of the external consultants/designers/printers/third party statement organisations involved in helping develop your report (name of organisation, brief contact details).

Updating

Contact us to update information from your current or earlier reports - for example if some language versions are out of print, or if company details need updating etc.

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