Eco-efficiency and climate change

The programmes included in Grupo SOStainable arose in response to the requirement to set up environmental policies and promote sound environmental performance, i.e. manage events using eco-efficiency criteria, reduce the impact on climate change, use scarce resources frugally and minimise the environmental impact of the Group’s activities.

The thrust of the programme is three-pronged:

• Act according to the environmental commitment and formalise environmental policy.
• Develop a specific eco-efficiency strategy and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
• Define, develop and expand the environmental management model.

Innovation

The individual programmes stem from the need to apply the organisation’s innovative ability in developing healthful product lines based on the values of the Mediterranean diet and in designing and improving industrial processes in accordance with the tenets of sustainability.

The two main thrusts of the programme are directed at:

• Creating innovative products having social and environmental added value.
• Achieving industrial processes that improve in sustainability over time.

Integrity and transparency

The guideline plan Feeding a Future has as one of its priorities that of establishing a leadership position in integrity and reporting transparency. Its programmes are in response to the requirement of establishing policies that determine and clarify the behaviour expected of people who form part of the Group’s business project and to adapt this to the Group’s standards and values.

Grupo SOS wishes to become a byword among the companies of its sector for its corporate governance practices and, in obedience to the latest international recommendations, include among them its commitment to corporate responsibility and integrity. Part of this commitment is its desire to provide transparent information on all its activities.

Values of the mediterranean diet

The different programmes it contains all take their starting point from the need to align supply with research, development and innovation in products and brands on the basis of the values they signify for the health and safety of consumers; not forgetting the taste, dietary benefits and convenience embodied in the values of the Mediterranean diet.

The individual plans focus on:

• » Defining the values and the management model based on them.
• » Reviewing the product portfolio and the nutritional profiles of each of its components.
• » Developing communication and promotional activities stressing good eating habits.
• » Maintaining good relations and communications with both customers and consumers.