OUR FOUR PILLARS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PILLAR
By focusing on reducing our carbon footprints, packaging waste, water usage and our overall effect on the environment, a beneficial impact on the planet can also have a positive financial impact.
THE SOCIAL PILLAR
A sustainable business should have the support and approval of its employees, stakeholders and the community it operates in. Our approaches to securing and maintaining this support are various, but it comes down to treating employees fairly and being a good neighbour and community member, both locally and globally.
THE IMPACT OF SUSTAINABILITY
Although it very much a buzzword, sustainability is here to stay. For our company, sustainability represents an opportunity to organize diverse efforts under one umbrella concept and gain public and industry credit for it. Sustainability means answering hard questions about how and why business practices have a serious, if gradual, impact on their operations.
THE ECONOMIC PILLAR
The economic pillar of sustainability is where most businesses feel they are on firm ground. To be sustainable, a business must be profitable. That said, profit cannot surpass the other two pillars. In fact, profit at any cost is not at all what the economic pillar is about. Activities that fit under the economic pillar include compliance, proper governance and risk management.