Our commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) guides the business decisions we make every day. With our values serving as a solid foundation, we have strengthened our approach to sustainability by integrating our goals into key business practices. Over time we have built the necessary internal programs, policies and structures to formalize our commitment. These guide our decisions, investments and partnerships, and they also empower our associates to live up to our ideals.

      
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We formalized our commitment to CSR when we launched our Global Supplier Principles and Guidelines. Our CSR program began with a specific focus on monitoring Suppliers and has now evolved to integrating social and environmental policies, practices and programs throughout the organization.

Our commitment to CSR begins at the top of the Company. Oversight of the program at the executive level rests with the Company’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (GC) who reports directly to the CEO. The GC provides periodic updates to the CEO and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors on a wide variety of compliance matters including social and environmental compliance. The Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility has day-to-day responsibility for the program.

The Company has a corporate risk committee and a robust enterprise risk management program to identify, assess and address potential risks to the Company, including CSR. The committee reports to the CEO, and the CEO discusses these risks and mitigating strategies with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

We are also working with external stakeholders to help expand our focus and impact. Our Company is a member of BSR, a network of more than 250 companies taking action on corporate responsibility issues.

Reviewing and reporting on our performance is another way we build sustainability into our business – and throughout the ResponsiblyANN site you will find detailed information on our programs, initiatives and our performance.