History
2010: merger of Centre Info and INrate bringing under one roof more than 20 years of experience and allowing faster time-to-market of next generation ESG analysis.
2009: development of the first methodology to assess the sustainability of private equity investments.
2008: Centre Info and INrate sign a strategic agreement to develop a new generation of ESG analysis and to create a global research pool with key SiRi partners.
2007: Centre Info is the first provider of full research on EM companies.
2006: Inrate launches the first thematic research on fundamental sustainability trends – water, climate change, consumption, mobility, while the same year Centre Info was the first agency providing global coverage of emerging market companies.
2005: Centre Info launches envIMPACT, the first methodology to assess the climate change impact of companies over the entire value chain of their activities.
2003: Due to successful development of SiRi Group, SiRi members decided to establish an independent for-profit company where Centre Info acted in the role of major shareholder and managing partner.
2001: Official foundation of INrate and rolling-out of the new social rating methodology. An independent Board of Experts is also set up to supervise the overall rating process.
2000: Centre Info was among the founders of SiRi Group, a coalition of sustainability research agencies based in Europe, North America and Asia.
1999: Establishment of Centre Info as a limited liability company.
1998: INrate develops the Best in Service analysis approach (BiS) that formally creates new incentives for the required structural change toward a sustainable way of doing business.
1995: Swiss pension fund NEST and sustainability research institute INFRAS establish a foundation for sustainable investment research (subsequently named INrate).
1994: Centre Info pioneered the first methodology for corporate sustainability assessments based on the premises of the Brundtland Commission Report.
1990: Centre Info start as think-thank of the Duchemin foundation whose aim is to foster sustainable development.
1983: NEST, the future core shareholder of INrate, is created to answer pension funds needs of Swiss small and medium sized firms placing at the heart of its investment philosophy sustainable development and long-term performance.