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Accsys joins the Social Stock Exchange
Accsys joins the Social Stock Exchange.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4531G Accsys Technologies PLC 06 June 2013 \n \n\n \n \nAIM: AXS\nNYSE Euronext Amsterdam: AXS\n6 June 2013\n \nACCSYS TECHNOLOGIES PLC\n(\"Accsys\" or the \"Company\")\n \nAccsys joins the Social Stock Exchange as a founding member\n \nAccsys, the environmental science and technology company whose primary focus is on the production and technology licensing of Accoya® wood and Tricoya® wood elements, today announces that it has joined the newly created Social Stock Exchange as a founding member.\n \nThe Social Stock Exchange, which launched today (6 June), is the first platform to showcase publicly listed social impact businesses. Its objective is to bridge the information gap between investors and publicly listed social and environmental impact businesses, in the process helping investors to make better informed investment decisions that are aligned with their environmental and social values.\n \nAccsys has joined as one of 11 founding members, having fulfilled the robust admission criteria set by the Social Stock Exchange, which included the production of a social Impact Report on Accsys. The Impact Report covered areas including the social purpose in which Accsys operates, who benefits from Accsys' activities and evidence of delivery against Accsys' social purpose. Accsys' Impact Report was prepared with the assistance of PricewaterhouseCoopers and can be viewed at http://www.socialstockexchange.com/members/accsys-technologies.\n \nCommenting, Paul Clegg, CEO of Accsys Technologies PLC said:\n\"There are growing numbers of investors that seek investments in companies that deliver environmental benefits in addition to financial returns. I firmly believe that Accsys has strong potential to deliver across both these areas.\n\"Initiatives such as the Social Stock Exchange that highlight the positive environmental impact businesses such as ours make and help facilitate more informed environmental impact investment decisions should be embraced and applauded. I am delighted that the Company has been accepted as a founding member of the Social Stock Exchange.\"\nEnds\n \n \n \n \nFor further information, please contact:\n \n\n\n\n\nAccsys Technologies PLC\n\n\nPaul Clegg, CEO\nHans Pauli, COO\nWill Rudge, FD\n \n\n\n via Blythe Weigh Co...