Northern Trust named on list

CHICAGO - Northern Trust announced Tuesday that it has been included in Black Enterprise Magazine's 40 Best Companies for Diversity. The companies identified in the annual report outperformed their peers in one or more of four key categories: board of directors, employee base, senior management and supplier diversity. Black Enterprise based its conclusions on a survey of major corporations. The publication reached out to CEOs and diversity executives of the top 1,000 publicly traded companies, and the diversity executives of the 50 leading global companies with strong U.S. operations.