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Fisher Scientific International, Inc. Added to
KLD's Domini 400 Social Index
BOSTON,
MA - July 27, 2005 - KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. announced
today that Fisher Scientific International, Inc. (FSH)
has been added to KLD's Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index).
Fisher
Scientific International, Inc. is headquartered in Hampton,
New Hampshire. It provides products and services to companies,
laboratories, and institutions that conduct scientific
research, including quality control, basic research &
development, drug discovery and drug development research.
Fisher Scientific's products include chemicals, liquid-handling
systems, instruments and equipment, medical devices and
diagnostic tools.
Reasons KLD added
the company to the Domini 400 Social Index
- Fisher Scientific
has effectively managed risks associated with the manufacture
of chemicals and equipment used in drug development
research. These risks include environmental regulatory
problems related to toxic emissions and product quality
and safety.
- The company is in
the Health Care sector, in which the DS 400 Index is
underweight relative to the S&P 500.
About the KLD Family of Indexes
KLD's
family
of social, environmental and sustainability indexes includes:
the Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index), launched in 1990, the established
benchmark for measuring the impact of social screening
on financial performance; the KLD Catholic Values 400SM
Index, launched in 1998, modeled on KLD's DS 400 Index;
the KLD Broad Market SocialSM
Index (KLD BMSI), launched in 2001, the screened subset
of the Russell 3000®
Index; the KLD Large Cap SocialSM
Index (KLD LCSI), launched in 2001, the screened subset
of the Russell 1000®
Index; the KLD NASDAQ Social Index (KLD NS Index), launched
in 2002, modeled on the NASDAQ Composite Index; the KLD
Select SocialSM Index
(KLD SSI), launched in 2004, the first US index maximizing
sustainability factors; and the KLD Global Climate 100SM
Index (KLD GC 100), launched in 2005, the first global
index focused on solutions to climate change.
About KLD Research & Analytics,
Inc.
KLD Research & Analytics,
Inc. (www.kld.com) is
an independent investment research and index company.
Its products and services enable institutional money managers
and investors to integrate social and environmental factors
into their investment strategies, while helping them gather
assets, manage risk and control costs. The company is
known for the 15-year-old Domini 400 Social Index, the
world's first index to benchmark the performance of equity
portfolios subject to multiple social screens. Today more
than $8 billion is invested in funds based on KLD Indexes.
For more information about KLD or its family of Indexes,
please see our website (www.kld.com)
or contact Karen Agredo by phone (617.426.5270) or e-mail
(kagredo@kld.com).
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