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Convergys
Corporation Added to
KLD's Domini 400 Social Index
BOSTON,
MA - November 15, 2004 - KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.,
an independent investment research
firm, announced today that Convergys Corporation (CVG)
has been added to KLD's Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index). Convergys Corporation is headquartered
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Convergys Corporation provides outsourced
marketing, customer support, and employee care services
through its customer management group. The company also
provides outsourced billing and information services and
software to the communications, cable, and broadband services
industries through its information management group.
Reasons KLD added the company
to the Domini 400 Social Index
- Convergys Corporation
provides a number of generous employee benefits programs,
including a cash profit sharing program in which all
employees are eligible for an annual cash bonus according
to the financial performance of the corporation and
stock options for all professional- and management-level
employees.
- One woman, Karen Bowman,
serves among the company's five principal senior line
executives. She is president of the company's employee
care operations.
- The company provides
domestic partner medical benefits to qualified employee
partners.
- Convergys Corporation
is an S&P 500 company.
About the KLD Family of Indexes
KLD’s
family of social, environmental and sustainability indexes
include: the Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index), launched in 1990, is the established
benchmark for measuring the impact of social screening
on financial performance; the KLD Catholic Values 400SM
Index, launched in 1998, is modeled on KLD's DS 400; the
KLD Broad Market SocialSM
Index (KLD BMS Index), launched in 2001, is the screened
subset of the Russell 3000® Index; the
KLD Large Cap SocialSM
Index (KLD LCS Index), launched in 2001, is the screened
subset of the Russell 1000® Index; the
KLD NASDAQ Social Index (KLD NS Index), launched in 2002,
is modeled on the NASDAQ Composite Index; the KLD Select
SocialSM Index, launched
in 2004, is the first US index maximizing sustainability
factors.
About KLD Research & Analytics,
Inc.
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. is an independent investment
research firm providing investment management tools used
by professionals to serve clients requiring investment
strategies based on social and environmental responsibility.
KLD products and services, including Socrates (a web-based,
company research tool) are used for screening, compliance
and asset gathering.
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 via
e-mail (kagredo@kld.com).
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