HRC Buying for Equality 2010

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2010 A GUIDE TO COMPANIES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER EQUALITY


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A FEW WAYS YOU CAN HELP FIGHT FOR EQUALITY EVERY DAY:

Share this information with your friends, family and co-workers. Help them to become supporters of equality by using the information in this guide.

Advocate for equality in the workplace. If your company isn’t on this list or you think it can do better, go to www.hrc.org/cei to find out how to get it engaged. Get active about equality. Sign up for newsletters and Action Alerts at www.hrc.org/consumeradvocacy.


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Dear Friends, Now that we have an unprecedented opportunity to effect dramatic change for our community, it is more important than ever that we keep our allies in this fight close at hand. We can help seize this opportunity with the economic choices we make. Each time we spend money, we support one or more companies. We need to support our community with these choices, and this Buying for Equality guide tells us how to do just that. In this guide, you will learn which corporations support our community — through non-discrimination policies, equal family benefits, comprehensive healthcare and employee support — and which do not. Fortunately, we can report that even though businesses have been hit hard by these challenging economic times, the upward trend toward fair policies for our community has not wavered. In spite of the downturn, more companies reached a 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index 2010 — the basis for this guide. A record 305 companies met each of the CEI’s criteria, from banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, to providing benefits for LGBT employees and their families, to supporting LGBT causes outside their company. It makes sense. Businesses consistently report that support for LGBT equality is good for their bottom line. As the HRC Foundation makes it possible for more companies to join us as allies and reach 100 percent on the CEI, you can do your part to continue this trend by using this guide to buy products and services from those companies that support the LGBT community. Every day we make choices that send a message about our values. This guide gives you the information you need to make economic choices that are consistent with those values. Whether you are choosing a grocery store or buying a pair of jeans or an airline ticket, give your hard-earned dollars to companies that are committed to our equality. We at the HRC Foundation hope that you will use this guide as another way to make your voice heard — through principled economic decisions. Sincerely, Joe Solmonese President, Human Rights Campaign Foundation


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Where do the scores in this guide come from?

The information in this guide comes from the 2010 Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual report card on corporate America’s treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

How are the scores calculated?

Businesses are rated on a scale from 0 to 100, based on whether or not they have policies that support LGBT people. These include anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training, transgender-inclusive benefits and external practices.

Why don’t I see a business listed?

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation researches policies at more than 1,800 companies (including the Fortune 1000 and American Lawyer 200). However, we don’t rate a business until we have collected and verified all the information we need. In all, we rated 590 companies in 2010.

How can I get a business listed?

Any business with 500 or more U.S. employees can be rated. If you don’t see a company listed, contact the Human Rights Campaign with any information you have about its policies on LGBT issues. Or, write the business and tell it you make purchasing decisions based on how it scored in this guide.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CONTACT US, PLEASE VISIT WWW.HRC.ORG/BUYERSGUIDE


HOW TO USE THIS BUYER’S GUIDE

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EACH BUSINESS/BRAND IS ASSIGNED ONE OF THREE COLORS BASED ON ITS SCORE IN OUR REPORT: GREEN, YELLOW OR RED.

FILLING UP THE TANK SCORE: 80+

BP 100 Arco Castrol Chevron 100 Caltex Texaco Shell Oil 100

SCORE: 46-79

ConocoPhillips 76 Conoco Phillips 66

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GREEN (80-100): Businesses/brands with one of our higher scores. Consumers should make every effort to support these companies. Human Rights Campaign National Corporate Partners. The support of these businesses is directly tied to the Human Rights Campaign’s success in ensuring equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. All HRC National Corporate Partners are required to maintain a CEI score of 85 or above. YELLOW (46-79): Businesses/brands that have taken steps toward a fair-minded workplace, but where there is still progress to be made.

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Exxon Mobil 0 RED (0-45): Businesses/brands that Esso have more work to do in furthering equality. If Exxon possible, consumers should make the choice Mobil to support a more fair-minded company. Hess ? Sunoco ? RED (?): Businesses/brands that have not Valero Energy ? responded to the survey despite repeated Diamond Shamrock attempts and whose policies are unclear. Stop N Go Ultramar


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WHERE TO SHOP

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HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

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HOME AND GARDEN

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HEALTH AND BEAUTY

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BANKING AND FINANCE

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KIDS 29 PET CARE

APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES

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PLANNING A TRIP

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STAYING ENTERTAINED

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FILLING UP THE TANK

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TECHNOLOGY

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FOOD AND BEVERAGES

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NEWSSTAND 36

FUN AND GAMES

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YOU’VE GOT MAIL

HITTING THE ROAD

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INSURANCE AND HEALTHCARE 38

EATING OUT

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SCORE: 80+

Barnes & Noble 100 TJX 100 B. Dalton Bookseller HomeGoods Borders 100 Walgreens 100 Waldenbooks Amazon.com 95 Costco 100 Limited Brands 95 eBay 100 Bath & Body Works Shopping.com C.O. Bigelow StubHub White Barn Candle Company Food Lion 100 Staples 93 Bloom Corporate Express Bottom Dollar Food CVS 90 Harveys Caremark Pharmacy GameStop 100 Longs Drug Store EB Games OfficeMax 90 Hallmark Cards 100 Home Depot 85 Sears 100 Rite Aid 85 Kmart Whole Foods 85 SUPERVALU 100 Hannaford Brothers 83 Acme Markets Harry & David 83 Albertsons Bristol Farms Cub Foods Farm Fresh Hornbacher’s Jewel-Osco Osco Pharmacy Save-A-Lot Sav-On Shaw’s Shop ‘n Save Shoppers Food Sunflower Market


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SCORE: 80+

78%

of LGBT people are extremely likely or very likely to consider brands that are known to provide equal workplace benefits for their employees, including LGBT workers.

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive

SCORE: 46-79

Ahold USA 78 Giant Peapod Stop & Shop H-E-B 75 Central Market Gas ‘N Go Hanover Direct 75 The Company Store Domestications Kroger 75 Baker’s

Dillon Food Stores Fred Meyer Kwik Shop Quality Food Centers Quik Stop Ralphs Turkey Hill Minit Markets Safeway 75 Toys ‘R’ Us 70 Babies ‘R’ Us

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Office Depot 45 RadioShack 40 Wal-Mart 40 Marketside Sam’s Club Meijer 20 Bed Bath & Beyond ? Big Lots ? BJ’s ? Children’s Place ? Dick’s Sporting Goods ? Dillard’s ? Dollar General ? Dollar Tree ? Deal$ Dollar Bills Duane Reade ?

Kohl’s ? Liberty Media ? QVC Lowe’s ? Michaels ? Pathmark ? PetSmart ? Publix Super Markets ? Weis ? Save-A-Lot Williams-Sonoma ? Pottery Barn West Elm Winn-Dixie Stores ? Thrifty Maid Winn & Lovett Zales ?


SCORE: 80+

DuPont 100 Corian GreenVista Kevlar Nomex Sentry Glass Teflon Tyvek Zodiaq 100 Herman Miller Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams 100 Monsanto 100 Roundup Seminis 100 Newell Rubbermaid Amerock Bernzomatic Calphalon Gardinia Irwin Kirsch Lenox Levolor Owens Corning 100 Replacements, Ltd. 100 Sears 100 Craftsman DieHard Kenmore

Whirlpool 100 Amana Gladiator Jenn-Air Kenmore KitchenAid Magic Chef Maytag Roper Supermatic Home Depot 85 Behr Hampton Bay Husky TrafficMaster Vigoro GE 80 Hotpoint Monogram Profile Realogy 80 Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Century 21 Corcoran Group Sotheby’s


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SCORE: 46-79

KB Home 70 Black & Decker 50 Baldwin Delta DeWALT Kwikset Price Pfister Weiser

Mohawk Industries Aladdin Dal-Tile Durkan Mohawk Unilin

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

45 Emerson Electric ClosetMaid Dirt Hound In-Sink-Erator RIDGID White-Rodgers 33 John Deere Beazer Homes ? Berkshire Hathaway ? Benjamin Moore The Pampered Chef Shaw Floors Fortune Brands ? Aristokraft Master Lock MasterBrand Moen Omega Schrock Waterloo Jarden ? Ball Coleman Diamond FoodSaver Mr. Coffee Oster Sunbeam La-Z-Boy ? Bauhaus England Kincaid

Leggett & Platt ? Lennar ? Cambridge Greystone NuHome Patriot U.S. Home Village Builders Masco ? Alsons American Shower & Bath Aqua Glass Axor BrassCraft Delta Faucet Sealy ? Bassett Meyer Stearns & Foster Sherwin-Williams ? ArmorSeal Toll Brothers ?


The buying power of the U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is projected to be in 2008.

$712 billion

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/MarketResearch.com


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SCORE: 80+

American Express 100 Ameriprise 100 IDS RiverSource Seligman 100 Bank of America Bank of America Home Loans Merrill Lynch Wealth Management U.S. Trust Bank of New York Mellon 100 Dreyfus Pershing Capital One 100 Charles Schwab 100 Citigroup 100 Citibank Citifinancial Citimortgage Primerica Credit Suisse 100 Deutsche Bank 100 Fannie Mae 100 Freddie Mac 100 Goldman Sachs 100 Harris Bankcorp 100 BMO Capital Markets HSBC 100 Beneficial JPMorgan Chase 100 Chase Washington Mutual KeyCorp 100 KeyBank

MasterCard 100 Cirrus Maestro Mondex Morgan Stanley 100 Smith Barney Van Kampen Northern Trust 100 Raymond James Financial 100 RBC Wealth Management 100 State Street 100 SunTrust 100 TD Bank 100 U.S. Bancorp 100 UBS 100 Visa 100 Wells Fargo 100 Wachovia Wells Fargo Advisors 95 Barclays Capital CIBC 95 Morningstar 95 Principal Financial 95 E*TRADE Financial 93 Robert W. Baird & Co. 90 PNC 85 AmTrust Bank 83 Comerica 80 Fifth Third Bancorp 80 General Electric 80 GE Money

SCORE: 46-79

Huntington Bancshares 75 BB&T 73 John Hancock 73 H&R Block 65 Sallie Mae 60

Discover Financial Services Diner’s Club Pulse Chamberlin Edmonds Franklin Resources Franklin Templeton

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National City Sovereign Bancorp Western Union

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

D&B 35 Hoovers M&T Bank ? NASDAQ ?


APPAREL ACCESSORIES SCORE: 80+

Abercrombie & Fitch 100 Gilly Hicks Hollister RUEHL Gap 100 Athleta Banana Republic Old Navy Piperlime 100 Levi Strauss Dockers Liz Claiborne 100 Axcess Juicy Couture Kate Spade Kensie Lucky Brand Jeans Mac & Jac Mexx Monet Macy’s 100 Alfani Bloomingdale’s Charter Club I.N.C. Martha Stewart Collection Nike 100 Cole Haan Converse Hurley Umbro

Nordstrom 100 Façonnable REI 100 Novara Sears 100 Apostrophe Covington Joe Boxer Lands’ End Structure TJX 100 AJWright Marshalls T.J.Maxx J.C. Penney 95 Arizona Jean Co. St. John’s Bay Worthington Kenneth Cole 95 Gentle Souls Le Tigre Unlisted Limited Brands 95 Henri Bendel La Senza Pink Victoria’s Secret


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SCORE: 46-79

L.L. Bean 78 Hanover Direct 75 International Male Silhouettes Undergear

Tiffany & Co. The Men’s Wearhouse K&G

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

Jones Apparel 45 Anne Klein Bandolino Easy Spirit Energie Enzo Angiolini Evan-Picone Gloria Vanderbilt Joan & David Jones New York Kasper Napier Nine West Sam & Libby Ann Taylor ? Ann Taylor LOFT Berkshire Hathaway ? Fruit of the Loom JERZEES Russell Athletics Spalding Bon-Ton Stores ? Carson Pirie Scott Elder-Beerman Burlington Coat Factory ? Chico’s ? Soma White House/Black Market Coach ? Foot Locker ? Champs Sports Eastbay Footaction

? Lillian Vernon Neiman Marcus ? Bergdorf Goodman Phillips-Van Heusen ? Arrow Bass Calvin Klein IZOD Polo Ralph Lauren ? Club Monaco Rugby Quiksilver ? DC Shoes Hawk Leilani ? Ross Stores Saks ? Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue VF ? Eagle Creek Eastpak JanSport John Varvatos Lee Nautica The North Face Seven for all Mankind Vans Wrangler Jeans Warnaco Group ? Olga Warner’s


EATING OUT SCORE: 80+

Brinker 100 Chili’s Maggiano’s Little Italy On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina Carlson 100 Pick Up Stix T.G.I. Friday’s Starbucks 100 Seattle’s Best Coffee

McDonald’s 85 Darden Restaurants 80 Bahama Breeze The Capital Grille Longhorn Steakhouse Olive Garden Red Lobster Seasons 52

SCORE: 46-79

The Palm 78 Burger King 68 Yum! Brands 65 A&W KFC

Long John Silver’s Pizza Hut Taco Bell WingStreet Domino’s Pizza

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 15 ? Berkshire Hathaway Dairy Queen Bob Evans ? ? Jack in the Box

OSI Restaurant Partners ? Bonefish Grill Carrabba’s Italian Grill Cheeseburger in Paradise Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse Wendy’s ?


FILLING UP THE TANK SCORE: 80+

BP 100 Arco Castrol Chevron 100 Caltex Texaco Shell Oil 100 SCORE: 46-79

ConocoPhillips 76 Conoco Phillips 66

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

Exxon Mobil Corp. 0 Esso Exxon Mobil Hess ? Marathon Oil ? Speedway SuperAmerica

Sunoco ? Valero Energy ? Diamond Shamrock Stop N Go Ultramar


FOOD BEVERAGES SCORE: 80+

Anheuser-Busch 100 Beck Bud Light Budweiser Busch Hoegaarden Kirin Leffe Michelob Natural Ice Rolling Rock Stella Artois 100 Campbell Soup Ecce Panis Pace Pepperidge Farm Prego Swanson V8 Clorox 100 Hidden Valley KC Masterpiece Kitchen Bouquet The Coca-Cola Company 100 Barq’s Canada Dry Coke Zero Dannon Water Dasani Diet Coke Fanta Fresca Fuze

Hi-C Honest Tea Mello Yello Minute Maid Nestea Odwalla Pibb Xtra POWERade Simply Orange smartwater Sprite Tab Vault Vitaminwater Coca-Cola Enterprises 100 Diageo 100 Bailey’s Beaulieu Vineyard Captain Morgan Cîroc Crown Royal Dom Perignon Don Julio Guinness Harp Hennessey Johnnie Walker Jose Cuervo Ketel One Red Stripe Smirnoff Sterling Vineyards Tanqueray


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General Mills 100 Betty Crocker Bisquick Bugles Cascadian Farm Cheerios Chex Colombo Fiber One Fruit by the Foot Fruit Gushers Fruit Roll-Ups Gold Medal Green Giant Haagen-Dazs Hamburger Helper Kix Lucky Charms Nature Valley Old El Paso Pillsbury Pop Secret Progresso Totino’s Trix Wheaties Yoplait Johnson & Johnson 100 Benecol Lactaid Splenda MillerCoors 100 Blue Moon

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Foster’s Grolsch IceHouse Keystone Killian’s Irish Red Leinenkugel’s Miller Milwaukee’s Best Molson Peroni Pilsner Urquell Sparks PepsiCo 100 7-Up Aquafina Aunt Jemima Cap’n Crunch Cheetos Cracker Jack Diet Pepsi Dole Juices Doritos Flat Earth Gatorade Lay’s Life Lipton Iced Tea Mountain Dew Mug Root Beer Naked Juices Near East Pasta Roni Propel


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Quaker Rice-A-Roni Rold Gold Ruffles Sierra Mist Slice SoBe Stacy’s SunChips Tostitos Tropicana Walkers 100 Procter & Gamble Pringles Starbucks 100 Ethos Water Frappuccino Seattle’s Best Coffee Tazo Teas Torrefazione Italia Coffee Unilever 100 Ben & Jerry’s Bertolli Breyers Ice Cream Country Crock Good Humor Hellmann’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! Klondike Knorr Lawry’s Lipton Popsicle Promise Ragu Skippy Peanut Butter Slim-Fast Wishbone 95 Kraft Foods A1 Balance Bar Boca Burger Breakstone’s Capri Sun Cheez Whiz Chips Ahoy! Cool Whip Country Time Cracker Barrel Cheese Crystal Light

DiGiorno Honeymaid Jell-O Kool-Aid Louis Rich Lunchables Maxwell House Miracle Whip Nabisco Newtons Nilla Oscar Mayer Planters Ritz Toblerone ConAgra Foods 90 Alexia Banquet Chef Boyardee Egg Beaters Fiddle Faddle Healthy Choice Hunt’s Jiffy Pop Marie Callender’s Orville Redenbacher’s Pam Peter Pan Poppycock Slim Jim Van Camp’s Wesson 85 Brown-Forman Bonterra Vineyards Chambourd Fetzer Finlandia Vodkas Herradura Tequila Jack Daniel’s Korbel Sonoma-Cutrer California Wines Southern Comfort Tuaca Liqueur Woodford Reserve


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SCORE: 46-79

Safeway 75 Artisan The Butcher’s Cut Eating Right Lucerne O Organics Primo Taglio Rancher’s Reserve Sara Lee 75 Ball Park Best’s Kosher Bryan Earthgrains Healthy Choice Hillshire Farm Jimmy Dean Sunbeam Sun-Maid Dean Foods 73 Country Fresh Horizon Organic International Delight Meadow Gold Silk Skinny Cow Mars 73 Altoids Dove Chocolate Life Savers M&M’s Masterfoods Orbit Skittles Snickers Starburst Twix Uncle Ben’s Wrigley 70 Hain Celestial Group Arrowhead Mills Casbah Celestial Seasonings Earth’s Best Garden of Eatin’ Harry’s Health Valley Imagine Jason

Nile Spice Rice Dream Soy Dream Terra Chips West Soy Yves Hershey 70 Almond Joy Breath Savers Bubble Yum Cadbury Heath Icebreakers Jolly Rancher Kit Kat Mauna Loa Mounds Payday Reese’s Rolo Skor Symphony Twizzlers York Zagnut Heinz 68 Bagel Bites Classico Delimex Lea & Perrins Ore-Ida Poppers Weight Watchers Smart Ones Wyler’s Kellogg’s 65 All-Bran Apple Jacks Austin Carr’s Cheez-It Chips Deluxe Club Corn Pops Crispix Eggo Famous Amos Froot Loops Frosted Flakes


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Keebler Mini Wheats Morningstar Farms Murray Nutri-Grain Pop-Tarts Rice Krispies Special K Town House Wheatables Domino’s 60

U.S. Foodservice Glenview Farms Next Day Gourmet Paxtuxent Farms Roseli Stock Yards Thirster Land O’Lakes Alpine Lace Eggland’s Best

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J.M. Smucker Crisco Eagle Brand Folgers Hungry Jack Jif Knott’s Berry Farm Smuckers Murdock Holding Dole Pilgrim’s Pride EatWellStayHealthy EggsPlus Smithfield Foods Butterball Cooks John Morrell Tyson Foods Bruss Chairman’s Reserve Golden Trophy Nature’s Farm Weaver Wright

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

Chiquita ? Fresh Express Constellation ? Arbor Mist Corona Negra Modelo Svedka Vendange Woodbridge Del Monte ? College Inn Contadina S&W Hormel ? Carapelli Dinty Moore El Torito House of Tsang Manny’s Spam Stagg Valley Fresh Interstate Bakeries ? Beefsteak Ding Dongs Ho Hos Home Pride Hostess Ring Dings Twinkies Wonder

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FUN GAMES SCORE: 80+

Electronic Arts 100 Mattel 95 EA Casual Entertainment American Girl EA Games Barbie EA Sports Cabbage Patch Kids The Sims Fisher-Price Hallmark Cards 100 Hot Wheels Magna Doodle Crayola Matchbox Silly Putty Harrah’s Entertainment 100 Pictionary Polly Pocket World Series of Poker Power Wheels Microsoft 100 Radica Xbox Tyco Electric Racing UNO SCORE: 46-79

Hasbro 50 Battleship Candy Land Chutes and Ladders Clue Connect Four Easy-Bake Oven Furby The Game of Life Giga Pets GI Joe Jenga Lite-Brite Monopoly

Mousetrap Mr. Potato Head My Little Pony Nerf Operation Play-Doh Playskool Risk Scattergories Scrabble Sorry! Trivial Pursuit Twister Yahtzee


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SCORE: 80+

AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah 100 BP 100 Castrol CarMax 100 Chrysler 100 Dodge Jeep Clorox 100 Armor All STP Tuff Stuff Cox Enterprises 100 AutoTrader.com Manheim Ford 100 Lincoln Mazda Mercury Volvo GM 100 Buick Cadillac Chevrolet GMC Hummer OnStar Pontiac Saab

Shell Oil 100 Black Magic Blue Coral Clear Magic Fix-A-Flat Jiffy Lube Quaker State Pennzoil Rain-X Subaru 100 Toyota 100 Lexus Scion Volkswagen 100 Audi Bentley Bugatti Lamborghini Ryder 93 Bridgestone 80 Dayton Firestone

SCORE: 46-79

Nissan 50 Infiniti

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Cooper Tire & Rubber 33 AutoZone 25 Duralast Valucraft Goodyear Tire ? Dunlop Kelly

Harley-Davidson ? Buell Dyna Pep Boys ?


HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS


SCORE: 80+

3M 100 Command Filtrete Nexcare O-Cel-O Post-it Scotch Scotch-Brite Scotchguard Clorox 100 Brita Formula 409 Glad Green Works Handi-Wipes Kingsford Lestoil Liquid-Plumr Pine-Sol S.O.S. Stain Out Tilex Tuff Stuff Wash’n Dri 100 Kimberly-Clark Cottonelle Kleenex Scott Viva 100 Newell Rubbermaid Dymo Expo Liquid Paper Paper Mate Parker Rolodex Roughneck Sharpie Shur-Line Uni-ball Waterman

Procter & Gamble Bounce Bounty Cascade Charmin Cheer Dawn Downy Duracell Febreze Gain Joy Mr. Clean Puffs Swiffer Tide S.C. Johnson & Son Drano Fantastik Glade Grab-it Nature’s Source OFF! Oust Pledge Raid Saran Scrubbing Bubbles Shout Vanish Windex Ziploc Colgate-Palmolive Ajax Fabuloso Murphy Oil Soap Palmolive Suavitel

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Tupperware ?

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SCORE: 80+

Bausch & Lomb 100 Akreos Alaway Boston Ocuvite Optima PreserVision PureVision ReNu Sensitive Eyes Sight Saver SofLens 100 Boehringer Ingelheim Dulcolax Zantac Clorox 100 Burt’s Bees Estee Lauder 100 Aramis Aveda Bobbi Brown Clinique M.A.C. Origins Prescriptives GlaxoSmithKline 100 Abreva Aquafresh Citrucel Commit FiberChoice NicoDerm CQ Nicorette Os-Cal Polident Sensodyne Tums 100 Johnson & Johnson Acuvue Aveeno Band-Aid Benadryl BenGay Clean & Clear e.p.t. Imodium KY Lactaid

Listerine Monistat Motrin Mylanta Neutrogena Pepcid AC Reach Rolaids Stayfree Sudafed Tylenol Tylenol-PM Visine Kimberly-Clark 100 Depends Kleenex Kotex Poise Scott Newell Rubbermaid 100 Goody Solano Novartis 100 4-Way Benefiber Boost Bufferin Comtrex Doan’s Ex-Lax Excedrin Gas-X Habitrol Maalox Night & Day/O2OPTIX No-Doz Tavist Theraflu Triaminic Vagistat Pfizer 100 Advil Alavert Anbesol Caltrate Centrum ChapStick Dimetapp


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FiberCon Preparation H Purell Robitussin Procter & Gamble Always Aussie Clairol Cover Girl Crest Fixodent Gillette Head & Shoulders Herbal Essence Ivory Max Factor Metamucil Noxema Olay Old Spice Oral-B Pantene Pepto-Bismol Puffs Scope Secret Tampax Vicks Zest S.C. Johnson & Son Edge Skintimate Schering-Plough Afrin Bain de Soleil Claritin Coppertone Dr. Scholl’s Tinactin

100

100 100

Unilever 100 AXE Brut Caress Closeup Degree Dove Lever 2000 Organics Pond’s Q-tips Suave Sunsilk ThermaSilk Vaseline 95 Colgate-Palmolive Irish Spring Mennen Skin Bracer Softsoap Speedstick Avon Products 90 ANEW Beyond Color Color Trend Perfect Wear Skin-So-Soft Ultra Color Rich Lipstick Abbott Laboratories 80 AdvantEdge EAS-Myoplex Ensure Similac Bayer 80 Aleve Alka-Seltzer Contour Flintstones Midol One-A-Day Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia

SCORE: 46-79

Regis Corp. Cost Cutters Famous Hair Hair Club for Men & Women Hair Masters

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Magicuts MasterCuts Sassoon Supercuts


KIDS SCORE: 80+

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Brookfield Academies College Coach Lipton Child Care Bristol-Myers Squibb Enfamil Kimberly-Clark GoodNites Huggies Little Swimmers Pull-Ups

100

100 100

Newell Rubbermaid 100 Aprica Graco Teutonia Procter & Gamble 100 Luvs Pampers Abbott Laboratories 80 Pedialyte PediaSure Similac Bayer 80 Flintstones Vitamins

PET CARE SCORE: 80+

Clorox 100 Ever Clean EverFresh Fresh Step Scoop Away Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. 100 Interceptor

Procter & Gamble Eukanuba Iams Colgate-Palmolive Hill’s Prescription Diet Hill’s Science Diet

100 95

SCORE: 46-79

Nestle Purina Alpo Beggin’ Strips Beneful Cat Chow Deli-Cat Dog Chow Fancy Feast Friskies Puppy Chow Purina ONE

75

TBonz Tidy Cats Safeway 75 Priority Pet Mars 73 Cesar Pedigree Royal Canin Sheba Whiskas


PLANNING A TRIP SCORE: 80+

Alaska Airlines 100 American Airlines 100 American Eagle Anheuser-Busch 100 Busch Gardens SeaWorld Sesame Place Carlson 100 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Country Inns & Suites Park Inn Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts Radisson Hotels & Resorts Regent Hotels & Resorts Continental Airlines 100 Delta Air Lines 100 Northwest Airlines Harrah’s Entertainment 100 Bally’s Caesars Flamingo Horseshoe London Clubs International Paris Rio Showboat Hyatt 100 Andaz Grand Hyatt Hyatt Place Park Hyatt Regency Hyatt JetBlue Airways 100 Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group 100

Hotel Monaco Hotel Palomar Marriott International 100 Bulgari Hotels & Resorts Courtyard Fairfield Inn JW Marrriott Renaissance Residence Inn The Ritz-Carlton SpringHill Suites TownePlace Suites Orbitz 100 Away.com CheapTickets eBookers.com HotelClub Sabre Holdings 100 Travelocity Starwood Hotels & Resorts 100 aloft Element Four Points Le Meridien Luxury Collection Sheraton St. Regis W Hotels Westin Travelport 100 US Airways 100 The Walt Disney Co. 100 Disney Cruise Line Disneyland


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Disney Vacation Club Walt Disney World Resorts Wynn Resorts 100 Encore Wynn Las Vegas Southwest Airlines 95 Wyndham 95 AmeriHost Inn Baymont Inn & Suites Days Inn Hawthorn Suites Howard Johnson Knights Inn Microtel Inn & Suites Ramada Super 8 Motel Travelodge Wingate Inn Dollar Thrifty 93 Dollar Rent A Car Thrifty Car Rental Choice Hotels 90 Ascend Collection Cambria Suites Clarion Comfort Inn Comfort Suites Econo Lodge MainStay Suites Quality Rodeway Inn Sleep Inn Suburban Extended Stay Hotel Hilton Hotels 90 Conrad

Doubletree Embassy Suites Hampton Inn Hilton Garden Inn Homewood Suites The Waldorf-Astoria Collection Travel Impressions 88 Carribean Escapes TI Gay & Lesbian Travel United Airlines 88 InterContinental Hotels 85 Candlewood Suites Crowne Plaza Holiday Inn Hotel Indigo Staybridge Suites MGM Mirage 85 Beau Rivage Bellagio Circus Circus Excalibur Luxor Mandalay Bay MGM Grand Monte Carlo New York-New York Treasure Island Avis Budget 80 Avis Rent A Car Budget Rent A Car 80 Enterprise Rent-A-Car General Electric 80 Universal Parks and Resorts Virgin America 80

SCORE: 46-79

Hertz 70 Advantage Rent A Car Connect Simply Wheelz Royal Caribbean Cruises 70 Celebrity Cruises

Expedia 65 Classic Vacations Hotels.com Hotwire TripAdvisor Venere

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Host Hotels & Resorts Loews Corp. Loews Hotels

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AirTran ? ExpressJet Airlines ? SkyWest ?


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SCORE: 80+

AMC Entertainment 100 AMC Theaters Loews Cineplex Clear Channel 100 Katz Media Cox Enterprises 100 Cox Cable/Newspapers/Radio Travel Channel 100 Hallmark Cards Hallmark Channel Starbucks 100 Starbucks Hear Music 100 Time Warner Cartoon Network Cinemax CNN CW HBO New Line Cinema TBS TNT truTV Warner Bros. Viacom 100 BET CMT Comedy Central DreamWorks LOGO MTV Nickelodeon Noggin Paramount Spike TV Land

Vh1 The Walt Disney Co. 100 A&E ABC Disney Channel ESPN History Channel Lifetime Miramax Films Pixar SOAPnet Touchstone Pictures Comcast 95 E! G-4 Videogame TV Golf Channel Style Network VERSUS General Electric 80 A&E Bravo CNBC MSNBC NBC NBC Universal Oxygen Syfy Telemundo Universal Pictures USA Weather Channel Live Nation 80 House of Blues Sirius XM Radio 80

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Blockbuster ? Cablevision ? AMC IFC Optimum Sundance Channel WE tv DIRECTV ? Liberty Media ? DIRECTV Game Show Network Starz

News Corp. ? 20th Century Fox Fox FX MySpace.com National Geographic Channel Regal Entertainment ? Edwards Theatres Hoyts Cinemas Univision ? Galavisi贸n TeleFutura


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TECHNOLOGY SCORE: 80+

Apple 100 iPhone/iPod/iTunes Mac OS X Safari AT&T 100 Barnes & Noble 100 Nook 100 Cisco Systems Linksys WebEx Corning 100 Dell 100 eBay 100 Bill Me Later Half.com PayPal Shopping.com Skype StubHub Google 100 Android Blogger Chrome Gmail Picasa YouTube HP 100 Compaq Snapfish IBM 100 Intel 100 Intuit 100

Mint.com QuickBooks Quicken TurboTax Kodak 100 EasyShare Kodak Gallery Lexmark 100 Microsoft 100 Bing Hotmail Internet Explorer MSN Office Windows Windows Live Zune Motorola 100 Sprint Nextel 100 Boost Mobile Sun Microsystems 100 Symantec 100 Norton Texas Instruments 100 Xerox 100 Yahoo! 100 Delicious Flickr HotJobs Zimbra Adobe 95 Acrobat Dreamweaver


45%

of gay and lesbian adults say they tend to upgrade to the latest model or version of of a product, compared with heterosexual adults.

33%

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive – 2008

Flash Photoshop Amazon.com 95 A9 IMDb Kindle Comcast 95 QUALCOMM 95

EarthLink 88 PeoplePC Imation 88 Memorex TDK XtremeMac Qwest 85

SCORE: 46-79

AMD 75 ATI Thomson Reuters 75 FindLaw KeyCite Westlaw Verizon 70 Alltel FiOS TV McAfee 53

Acer 50 eMachines Gateway Packard Bell Nokia 50 T-Mobile 50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

IAC/InterActiveCorp Ask.com Chemistry Citysearch The Daily Beast Dictionary.com Evite Excite

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Match.com Urbanspoon Vimeo U.S. Cellular Virgin Media Virgin Broadband Virgin Mobile

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SCORE: 80+

American Express 100 Food & Wine Travel & Leisure New York Times 100 About.com The Boston Globe The International Herald Tribune 100 Time Warner Cooking Light Entertainment Weekly Essence Fortune InStyle Money People

Real Simple Southern Living Sports Illustrated Time 100 United Business Media LLC CRN EE Times InformationWeek Network Computing McGraw-Hill 80 Architectural Record BusinessWeek JD Power & Associates Macmillan Standard & Poor’s

SCORE: 46-79

Gannett 65 Clipper Magazine USA Today

Scholastic Encyclopedia Americana

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SCORE: 0-45, ?

News Corp. Barron’s Dow Jones HarperCollins INSIDEout MarketWatch New York Post

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SmartMoney The Wall Street Journal Tribune ? Baltimore Sun Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times


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YOU’VE GOT MAIL SCORE: 80+

UPS 100

SCORE: 46-79

FedEx 70


INSURANCE HEALTHCARE SCORE: 80+

Aetna 100 Allianz Life 100 Allstate 100 American Heritage Life Deerbrook Encompass Lincoln Benefit Aon 100 Affinity Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Inc. 100 Chubb 100 CNA Insurance 100 Esurance 100 Hartford Financial Services 100 American Maturity ING 100 ReliaStar Kaiser Permanente 100 MassMutual Life Insurance 100 Babson Capital Baring Asset C.M. Life Insurance Cornerstone OppenheimerFunds MetLife 100 New England Life Insurance Texas Life Insurance Nationwide 100 Allied Insurance Scottsdale Insurance

Titan Insurance Victoria Insurance New York Life 100 Pacific Mutual 100 Progressive 100 Prudential 100 Sun Life Financial 100 TIAA-CREF 100 UnitedHealth Group 100 Golden Rule Insurance OptumHealth Ovations Secure Horizons CIGNA Corp. 95 Lincoln National 95 Principal Financial Group 95 WellPoint Inc. 95 Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Lumenos Unicare Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 93 Health Net 93 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina 90 American Family Insurance Group 88 Group Health Cooperative 88 Unum 88 Colonial Provident Chartis 85


SCORE: 80+

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33%

of self-identified gays and lesbians say that an insurance company’s offering of domestic partner benefits to its employees would be one of the top three reasons why they would change providers and take their business to another insurance carrier. Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive - 2008

Group Health Permanente Quest Diagnostics Selective Insurance Group

85 85 85

80 80

SCORE: 46-79

John Hancock 73 Manulife CUNA Mutual Insurance Group 65 Vision Service Plan 65

Mutual of Omaha Insurance State Farm

Zurich 65 Owens & Minor 50 MediChoice Travelers 50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Humana 45 AEGON 40 Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Stonebridge Transamerica AFLAC ? Assurant ? Berkshire Hathaway ? GEICO National Indemnity Conseco Inc. ? Bankers Life Colonial Penn First American Corp. ?

Genworth ? Guardian Life ? Berkshire Life Park Avenue Life Liberty Mutual ? Northwestern Mutual ? Frank Russell Sierra ? USAA ?


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