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credit360 a specialist provider of sustainability software, is working with Trucost, the environmental data experts, to provide environmental performance benchmarking data to its global client base.

November 22nd, 2011: credit360 today announced its collaboration with Trucost, the firm responsible for the environmental performance metric in Newsweek's annual Green Rankings of the world's largest companies. The partnership enables credit360 to provide environmental benchmarking reports to its clients, via a portal on its web-based sustainability platform.

Atkins is one of the worlds' leading engineering and design consultancies, employing 17,700 people worldwide and earning revenues of circa £1.56 billion. Atkins is committed to establishing more sustainable practices in the construction sector and achieving a low carbon society through carbon critical design. Atkins has made submissions to the CDP from 2006, achieved the Carbon Trust Standard for UK in 2009 and is currently ranked 11th in the FTSE350 CDP ratings.

International Personal Finance, a leading international provider of home credit and finance services with 2.3 million customers, 27,213 agents in 6 countries and over 6,100 employees, has selected credit360 to manage data collection in support of a diverse portfolio of reporting practices across their entire enterprise. The credit360 system will be used to manage environment data, compliance information, human resource data, supplier information and data related to media relations.

Bidvest, based in Johannesburg South Africa, is an international services trading and distribution company operating on four continents and employing 106,000 people worldwide. Bidvest recently selected credit360 to streamline global corporate responsibility data collection and reporting across a broad set of indicators produced by over 150 businesses in the group.

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