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Article: Forbes Names Northwest Bancorp as One of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 6, 2009
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In its third annual survey conducted for Forbes magazine and announced recently, Audit Integrity, an independent financial analytics company based in Los Angeles, named Northwest Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NWSB) to its list of 100 Most Trustworthy Companies. Of the approximately 12,000 public companies analyzed, Northwest ranked 54th and was one of only eleven financial institutions to make the list (see also Northwest Bancorp, Inc.).
To reduce thousands of public companies down to the most trustworthy one hundred, Audit Integrity assigns each an accounting and governance risk score (AGR) using a proprietary process to evaluate financial reporting, transparency, ...