Swiss Label “SSW” for Corporate Social Responsibility for the World Economic Forum On July 5th the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Geneva, Switzerland, received the new Swiss Label for Corporate Social Responsibility issued by the Swiss foundation for a Social Responsible Economy, SSW. The Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems, SQS, acts as a partner of SSW and conducted the successful assessment. With this new label those companies and organisations are honoured that achieve a certain level of social responsibility assessed by external auditors. The label’s requirements to meet include the organisation’s relationship with the employees, customers, suppliers, as well as the community in general. The assessment criteria also cover areas such as equal opportunity and family-friendly policies, motivation and participation of employees, health protection and accident prevention, as well as a continuous training and further education. – Finally, this label honours the serious endeavours of organisations at reaching for sustainable development. SQS was pleased to hand over - in the presence of the president of the SSW board and one of the renowned experts of the independent jury that finally awards the candidate for the label – the certificate to the founder and president of the World Economic Forum, professor Klaus Schwab. Indeed, it was perfectly convenient to issue the new label for Corporate Social Responsibility to one of the very first promoters of the stakeholders’ concept. SQS’s CEO, Theo Zahner, did not miss the opportunity to point out the adaptation of Einstein’s revolutionary formula, E = m * c², for the benefit of an organisation’s sustainable success, i.e. S = i * l²; with S = success, i = innovation and l² = loyalty of both the employees and the customers: The offer of the new Swiss Label for Corporate Social Responsibility completes SQS’ service portfolio within the range of products that support any organisations’ efforts for their sustainable development. Please do not hesitate to contact Silvio Leonardi at SQS for any further information about this service: SQS will be happy and proud to promote the challenging assessment worldwide – for the benefit of our common future. silvio.leonardi@sqs.ch Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS) The Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS) was founded in 1983 as one of the worldwide first organizations for assessment and certification services. SQS is internationally active and the leading organization in Switzerland. The customer service is provided by qualified, permanent employed auditors in Switzerland, Italy and France. The extensive services of 51 auditing products as well as the diversified workshop and seminar offer guarantee a customer orientated support. To date, SQS certified about 8’500 companies and organizations whereof about 2’500 are active outside of Switzerland. Presently, 10’000 certificates are issued totally. The SQS audits worldwide and is in collaboration with 37 IQNet partner organizations. The worldwide recognition of SQS certificates is supported by the international recognized accreditation of the Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS), a signatory of the IAF the leading International Accreditation Forum and furthermore the membership of IQNet - The International Certification Network . Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS) Bernstrasse 103 CH-3052 Zollikofen Telefon +41 31 910 35 35 Telefax +41 31 910 35 45 headoffice@sqs.ch www.sqs.ch Links: www.sswi.ch www.sqs.ch www.weforum.org www.weforum.org/documents/newsletter

CEO of SQS, Theo Zahner Founder and president of the World Economic Forum, Professor Klaus Schwab Silvio Leonardi, SQS