Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)

Company aiming to provide the highest quality impartial research on companies and shareholders world-wide. Provides research, software products and consulting services. Offers guidance and advice on proxy voting, enabling clients to make informed, considered decisions that reflect their investment philosophies. IRRC also offers company profile information for portfolio screening and other purposes. Primarily concerned with USA based companies.

Focus areas include the tobacco industry, companies investing in Burma, investors and Southern Africa (with country level investment profiles), voting proxies and corporate governance, use of sweatshop labour

WWW site includes short summaries of some of its reports

Produces a CDROM with its corporate environmental profiles