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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is assessing your company as part of the WBA SDG2000 list of the world's most influential companies. Draft assessment data has been compiled from publicly available corporate information published in English, including sustainability reports, corporate websites, and other publicly accessible documents. Assessments are conducted in accordance with our research guidelines, which means that our assessments may be subject to refinement and consistency checks throughout the assessment period to ensure a fair comparison. As such, changes to the assessment may occur after the company has provided written feedback, up until the publication of the final results.
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