Profit Sharing: Companies That Donate the Most From What They Earn
July 23, 2012
| 2011 giving as a percent of 2010 pre-tax profits | |
| Alcoa (Pittsburgh) | 6.7% |
| Merck & Company (Whitehouse Station, N.J.) | 4.4% |
| General Mills (Minneapolis) | 4.0% |
| Kroger Company (Cincinnati)1 | 4.0% |
| Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Conn.) | 3.3% |
| Target Corporation (Minneapolis) | 3.3% |
| Goldman Sachs Group (New York) | 2.6% |
| Safeway (Pleasanton, Calif.) | 2.5% |
| Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (Milwaukee) | 2.4% |
| Starbucks Corporation (Seattle) | 2.1% |
Note: All numbers are for 2011 giving as a percentage of 2010 pre-tax profits except Kroger Company, whose giving figure is for fiscal 2012, based on 2011 profits.
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