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Benesse is qualified as a "SAM Sector Leader"and "SAM Sector Mover"in “The Sustainability Yearbook 2009”published by SAM

Benesse Holdings, Inc.

Release Date : 2009/01/28

Benesseisqualifiedasa"SAMSectorLeader"and"SAMSectorMover"inThe Sustainability Yearbook 2009”publishedbySAM.
"TheSustainabilityYearbook2009"is theworlds most comprehensive publication on corporate sustainability and the related challenges  and opportunities for companies.
www.sam-group.com/yearbook.

The 2500 largest companies in the world, as reflected in the Dow Jones Global Index, are invited each year to participate in SAMs Corporate Sustainability Assessment. Only the top-scoring 15% of those companies in each of the 57 sectors assessed by SAM are included in the Sustainability Yearbook.

The best companies from each sector qualify as aSAM Sector Leader. And, in a new development, the best companies are broken down into three categories: SAM Gold Class, SAM Silver Class and SAM Bronze Class. In addition, those firms from each sector that have shown the greatest relative improvement in their sustainability performance are given the title ofSAM Sector Mover.