Press Release

DBRS Publishes Two Updated Corporate Criteria

Energy, Consumers, Industrials
June 10, 2015

DBRS has today published two updated general corporate criteria as follows:

-- DBRS Criteria: Evaluating Corporate Governance; and
-- DBRS Criteria: Financial Ratio Definitions and Accounting Adjustments – Non-Financial Companies.

These updates supersede methodologies previously published in August 2014 and January 2014, respectively. While clarifications have been made in these methodologies and each have been scaled back somewhat to remove less important items, changes overall are not material and DBRS has determined that no ratings have changed as a result of these updates.

DBRS rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available at www.dbrs.com.

DBRS’s methodologies and criteria are available at www.dbrs.com or by contacting us at info@dbrs.com.