Premier, Inc. Named One of the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere® for 18th Consecutive Year
Premier remains the only company in the Business Services category recognized for its exceptional leadership and commitment to ethical business practices, integrity and excellence in compliance and governance.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 11, 2025– Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement and technology company, has been recognized by Ethisphere®, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies®.
Premier, a member of Ethisphere’s Business Ethics Leadership Alliance™ (BELA), a global community committed to advancing business integrity, has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® every year since 2007. In 2025, 136 honorees were recognized spanning 19 countries and 44 industries. Premier has been the only honoree in the Business Services category for four consecutive years.
“Premier’s recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 18 years straight is a true reflection of our deep-rooted commitment to integrity, accountability and responsible business practices,” said Michael J. Alkire, President and CEO of Premier. “Ethics are at the heart of everything we do, shaping how we support our members, improve healthcare and make a lasting impact on communities.”
Ethisphere’s Five Year Ethics Premium for 2025 is 7.8 percentage points. This represents the margin by which publicly traded companies recognized in this year’s World’s Most Ethical Companies outperformed a comparable index of global companies over a five-year period from January 2020 to January 2025.
“Congratulations to Premier for achieving recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®. Behind this honor is a true dedication and a commitment to advancing business integrity. This approach is good for business – employees and other stakeholders value companies that prioritize
the kinds of practices we measure with our process,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair.
Ethics & Performance: The Ethics Premium
The listed 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies® Honorees outperformed a comparable index of global companies by 7.8 percentage points from January 2020 to January 2025.
Methodology & Scoring
The World's Most Ethical Companies assessment is grounded in Ethisphere's proprietary Ethics Quotient®, which requires companies to provide 240+ different proof points on practices that support robust ethics and compliance; governance; a culture of ethics; environmental and social impact; and
initiatives that support a strong value chain. That data undergoes further qualitative analysis by our panel of experts who spend thousands of hours vetting and evaluating each year's group of applicants. This process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify best-in-class ethics and compliance practices from organizations across industries and from around the world.
Honorees
To view the full list of this year’s honorees, please visit the World’s Most Ethical Companies website, at
https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees.
About Ethisphere
Ethisphere is the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that strengthen corporate brands, build trust in the marketplace, and deliver business success. Companies turn ethics, compliance, and culture into a business advantage by leveraging Ethisphere’s data-driven
program and culture assessments featuring the latest guidance and the practices of hundreds of global organizations across the 8 pillars of an ethical culture, and 240+ ethics, compliance, social, and governance data points delivered through a proprietary software platform. Ethisphere also honors
superior integrity programs through World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition, brings together a community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), and advances ethical business practices through the Global Ethics Summit, Ethisphere Magazine and the Ethicast podcast. For more information, visit https://ethisphere.com.
Premier, Inc Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made in this release that are not statements of historical or current facts, including but not limited to those related to Premier’s ability to advance its business strategies and improve healthcare, the intended or expected performance or utility of Premier’s products and services, and the effectiveness of governance and compliance programs, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause performance or achievements to be materially different from historical results or from any future results or projections expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. More information on risks and uncertainties relating to Premier and its products and services is included from time to time in the “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of Premier’s periodic filings with the SEC, which are also made available on Premier’s website at investors.premierinc.com. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Premier undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events that occur after that date, or otherwise.
About Premier, Inc.
Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company, providing solutions to two-thirds of all healthcare providers in the U.S. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers, payers and policymakers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services in service of our mission to improve the health of communities. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com; as well as X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the company.
Contact: Public_Relations@premierinc.com