I have been wanting to add a business trends category to my web site for quite some time now I just have not been able to think of a good entry to start it out with... until now. What better business trend can anyone support than good ethics, so, I thought I would share this great web site that lists 2005's 100 Best Corporate Citizens: http://www.business-ethics.com/whats_new/100best.html

Just as we try not to buy things or support companies who do wrong, I think it is just as important to acknowledge those that do good. So, in addition, I thought I would also add here a list of companies that have made it every year between 2000-2004:

1. Fannie Mae
2. Procter & Gamble
3. Intel Corporation
4. St. Paul Companies
6. Deere & Company
7. Avon Products
8. Hewlett-Packard
10. Ecolab Inc.
12. IBM
14. Herman Miller
17. Timberland Company
19. Cisco Systems
22. Southwest Airlines
24. Motorola
27. Cummins Inc.
31. Adolph Coors
32. Modine Manufacturing
33. Clorox
43. AT&T
44. Pitney Bowes
45. Starbucks Coffee
48. Merck & Company
49. Graco
53. Brady Corporation
57. Medtronic
63. New York Times Co.
74. Golden West Financial
89. Sonoco Products
98. Whirlpool