Yum China Holdings, Inc. recently held a Public Welfare Awareness Event in Hangzhou, during which KFC China announced the expansion of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. These initiatives cover various areas, including support for the disadvantaged, environmental preservation, and food waste reduction. The event was attended by Guo Jingjing, Olympic Champion and KFC China's first Goodwill Ambassador.
 
According to Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China, giving back to society is deeply ingrained in their culture. They actively support causes that have a positive impact on the communities they serve. Their goal is to create a platform that inspires people to unite with a shared purpose and make a difference in their community.
 
Warton Wang, General Manager of KFC China, stated that KFC China will utilize its extensive restaurant network to further its social responsibility initiatives. They will particularly focus on supporting the disadvantaged, promoting sustainability and climate action, and advocating for healthy lifestyles.
 
During the event, KFC China announced the following expanded CSR initiatives:
 

 

 
Throughout its 36 years in mainland China, KFC China has maintained a strong commitment to social responsibility. With a vast network of over 9,200 stores across 1,800 cities, the company strives to leverage its extensive reach as a powerful platform for engagement. Its focus is on supporting the disadvantaged, environmental protection, and fostering a more compassionate society.
 
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Dailycsr.com – 30 April 2017 – GSK has come with its “Responsible Business Supplement” updates on its performance over twenty three “responsible business commitments”, that are spread across “four key focus areas”, namely Health for all, Our behaviour, Our people and Our planet”. Moreover, it comes in additional to GSK’s Annual Report that enlists its “approach to responsible business”. As GSK adds:
“By being commercially successful and operating responsibly, we will improve people’s health and benefit society, as well as create value for shareholders”.
 
In the words of the C.E.O at GSK, Sir Andrew Witty:
“GSK has a strong commitment to operating responsibly and playing our part in meeting some of society’s biggest healthcare challenges.
 Over the last decade, this has been seen in our commitment to place access to medicines at the centre of our business approach, in our innovation focused on diseases that impact the poorest countries – such as malaria – and in the changes we have made to our commercial model and sales and marketing practices.”
 
While, BSR’s C.E.O and the President, Aron Cramer, stated:
“GSK’s Responsible Business Supplement 2016 is a strong statement of its intentions, actions and achievements.
One of its signal accomplishments is the clear link between GSK’s business strategy and the central public health issues the strategy is designed to address.”
 
Here are the highlights of GSK’s 2016 responsible business:

 
 
 
 
References:
http://www.ethicalperformance.com

Dailycsr.com – 30 April 2017 – BAE Systems is proud of their work and the way they execute them, right from the developmental stage of its “innovative products and services” to providing the customers with “the best possible service”, besides “investing” in its employees and the “future workforce”.
 
At BAE Systems the annual report takes on an “integrated approach” detailing its CSR engagements and performance. The report for the year of 2016, charts out the progress made by the company on its “CR agenda”, while retaining the focus on the strategic decisions and key area performance that include “business conduct, safety, diversity and inclusion, environmental sustainability and community investment”.
 
Moreover, the report also gives “a clear statement” about BAE’s future intentions of continuous improvement in the above mentioned areas. Here are the highlights of the report, as mentioned by Ethical Performance:

 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com 

Dailycsr.com – 02 May 2016 – The annual reports 2016 of John Lewis Partnership has been made public. The same accounts for its “sustainability performance” in a review and also provides a “more detailed” report online.
 
The said report extrapolates a situation of the world into the year of 2028, which marks a century of the “Partnership’s Founder, John Spedan Lewis, took over the business” who inherited the same from his father. After John Spedan Lewis took charge of the situation, he transferred the company’s ownership to “a trust for the benefit of his staff”.
 
The trends enlisted as a result of the extrapolation shows a technology boost, besides mitigating “resource scarcity” and battling the social impacts of “climate change, and health and wealth inequality”. Moreover, the report also considers the impacts on the “workplace and the retail environment” caused by the above mentioned areas.
 
The said report, dealing with “material sustainability issues”, the company’s “targets, priorities and achievements” in the fiscal year of 2015-2016, is available on:
www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/csr  
 
The same also reflects the meaning of the trend embraced within the company’s business operations, whereby it underpins:
“...its approach to Responsible Business is its Constitution – a set of Rules and Principles first produced in 1928 by its Founder”. 
 
The set of rules touches upon the areas of responsibilities towards “customers, suppliers, the environment and communities”, while the “Principle 1” deal with the “‘the happiness’ of its employees or ‘Partners’”. Here are some of the key sustainability achievements acquired by the Partnership:

 
In order to strengthen its governance, the Partnership “appointment” a subcommittee under the board, named “the Corporate Responsibility Committee”. A non-executive director has been assigned at the chair committee’s position. The committee will advice the board in issues related to the “Partnership’s Corporate Responsibility Policy and objectives”.
 
Moreover, Dame Fiona Reynolds has also become a part of the committee, whereby she stated:
"I am delighted to have been selected to join the Committee and I look forward to working with the Partnership on these vitally important issues".
 
References:
http://www.ethicalperformance.com/

Dailycsr.com – 28 April 2016 - L’Oréal has come up with its “sustainability program” report for the year of 2015, under the title of “Sharing Beauty With All” which enlists company’s “ambitious commitments” scheduled to be fulfilled by the year of 2020.
 
Among some of the “important” progresses made by the Group of L’Oréal are, as mentioned by Ethicalperformance:

 
In the words of the chief sustainability officer at L’Oréal, Alexandra Palt:
“The mobilization of all L’Oréal teams allowed us to roll out the Sharing Beauty with All program worldwide on a solid basis. We will now move to an acceleration phase to achieve our targets by 2020”.
 
The year of 2015 marked a “milestone” for the company in fighting “against climate change” as it has formed part in the “signing of a historic agreement at the COP 21”. L’Oréal recognises the urgent need of taking steps to transform “societies into low-carbon economies”.
 
The Group of L’Oreal made an announcement wherein it stated that the company was aiming to turn itself into a “carbon-balanced” company by the year of 2020. It has plans of generating “carbon gains through its sustainable sourcing projects” in proportion to the “amount of incompressible greenhouse gas emissions” that is produced as a result of L’Oreal’s “industrial activities”.
 
The report of Sharing Beauty With All was launched in the year of 2013 which gives the details of the value chains integrated into the operations of L’Oréal which bases itself on four main ideas:

 
The annual report of L’Oréal that gives a description of the progresses made by the company in “key performance” areas goes through a review and also faces a challenge of “a panel of independent international experts”.
 
References:
http://www.ethicalperformance.com/