All-Canadian Cleantech Index to open Toronto Stock Exchange
Nov 14th, 2011 6:19 AM
Media Advisory
TORONTO, November 14, 2011 - This Wednesday (November 16)
Corporate Knights, the company for clean capitalism, will unveil the preeminent list of Canadian public and private cleantech companies, the
Cleantech 10™ and
Next 10. Corporate Knights has been following cleantech companies since 2007, and highlighting the companies poised to make it big. The CEOs of the
Cleantech 10™ and
Next 10 will open Toronto Stock Exchange on November 16, 2011. The Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange host over 130 clean technology companies with a combined quoted market value of $16,754,255,148 as of September 30, 2011.
The
Corporate Knights Cleantech 10™ was compiled by
Corporate Knights Inc. and Cleantech Group LLC, the leading provider of Cleantech indices and information globally. The
Cleantech 10™ list was created by Rafael Coven, Managing Director and Index Manager of The Cleantech Index (CTIUS; cleantechindex.com), which underlies several Index-based funds such as the PowerShares Cleantech ETF (NYSE:PZD), and is the first and only index to cover cleantech companies across a broad array of industries. The
Next 10 were selected by an advisory panel of Canada’s foremost authorities on cleantech, using four judging criteria: creativity and original approach, solving a business problem, clear business objective, and best chance of breaking through.
What:
Market open of Toronto Stock Exchange to unveil top clean tech companies in Canada
Who:
Corporate Knights, CEOs of the leading cleantech companies
When:
9am - 9:30am, Wednesday, November 16
Where:
TMX Broadcast Centre, The Studio at street level, The Exchange Tower, 130 King Street West, NE Corner of King St. and York St.
For further information contact:
Don Huff, Environmental Communication Options, 416-972-7401,
huffd@ecostrategy.ca or
Toby A.A. Heaps, Chief Executive, Corporate Knights Inc., 416-274-1432,
toby@corporateknights.ca
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About Corporate Knights
Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights Inc. is an independent Canadian-based media and financial products company focused on clean capitalism.
