Looking at stakeholders expectations we see we face a number of challenges in the years ahead. To cater for these the Group considers it essential they should be dealt with in such a way that the risks managed are offset by the business opportunities generated. To do this we have to establish a series of commitments that show stakeholders just where the company stands.

Bringing all these factors together we arrive at a pattern characterised by the following objectives:

• Providing a ground plan to identify the main environmental, social and ethical challenges and opportunities attaching to the activities of the Group.
• Translating the Group’s desire to position and maintain itself as a known protagonist of the Mediterranean diet into concrete action.
• Making available a common workspace in which different units, each with their own specific responsibility, can make their contributions.
• Making the different plans, programmes, actions and initiatives compatible one with another.
• Setting up agreed work programmes to help and support the company in achieving its desired objectives.

The net result is illustrated by the following diagram