Our Mission

Delighting our local consumers with fun, refreshing, natural moments of pleasure

Our Vision

We will be the most desirable company of the beverages industry.

Our Values:Yatte Minahare—Go for it!

Our working mindset:

Think big, start small, move fast.

Naturally Daring, Naturally Caring

Because we naturally dare, we want to be a key and innovative driver for positive and sustainable lifestyle. Because our mission is to delight our consumers, we naturally care to make this delight respectful people, communities and nature.

Our beverages are a source of delight. They contribute worldwide to make Orangina Schweppes an increasingly appealing company where people enjoy working, led by famous brands that consumers love. A company capable of conceiving tomorrow's business and delight in resonance with people, society and environment needs, creating sustainable value for the Group and wealth throughout society.

CSR Management

QEHS management system

We developed our unique QEHS (Quality, Environment, Health, and Safety) policy as a strategy for continued corporate growth. Our standards are tougher than those required by the EU and local governments, and are implemented through our QEHS management system. This policy is strictly followed, correctly implemented, and allows us to focus on providing our customers with high quality products that best meet their needs.

Reducing job-related accidents

Workplace safety and health issues are a top priority for our plant workers, and we continue to promote plant management that results in low job-related accident rates.

Our first and main commitment is linked to our original mission: offering good drinks to all sorts of people in all sorts of circumstances. We take nutrition very seriously, because these beverages are part and parcel of people's daily nutritional intake and play a role in their balance.

As a key factor in fruit drinks, leading bright and popular brands, we are strongly committed in making our drinks more and more natural, being convinced that naturalness can be delightful. We thus constantly work to improve our recipe and have already reformulated a large part of our products, promoting natural ingredients, colorings and flavorings, and less and less preservatives.
On top of this, our strong commitment is to reduce the sugar content of our products. Our ambition: Delighting — with same pleasures — our consumers and the future generations with less sugary drinks and tastes. This is a commitment we are proud of and act upon. All our business units are involved in this cause, and for example in France, we have already reduced by 13% vs 2006 the average added sugar content of our products, and were the first beverage company to sign in July 2008 a Nutritional Commitments charter alongside the French government. As one of the leading companies in France's fruit beverage industry, in 2008 we became signatories of the French government's charter for nutritional improvement. This charter is part of the French government's national nutrition and health program, the PNNS (Programme National Nutrition-Santé), aimed at improving the nutritional value of products from the food industry, in turn improving the eating habits of French citizens. Orangina Schweppes France is the first and only soft drinks beverages company recognized by the French government as part of this program. The following are highlights of our activities as part of this program.

Environmental Efforts

Reduce our environmental impact for a respectful delight

We believe that more and more, delight will be linked to the confidence that it doesn't harm the planet. This environmental concern means for us being fully engaged in the reduction of our impact by improving constantly the way our ingredients are sourced, and our beverages are made, packed and promoted. This approach has led to reductions in waste, water usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy consumption, and has improved our recycling rates. Through all these efforts and many other initiatives at all levels of our production chain, we aim to reduce our CO₂ emissions and waste, especially in our factories that will all be ISO 14001 by 2013.

Integrate environmental criteria in all our suppliers

We promote a collective and strengthened approach in collaboration with our suppliers, based on a good knowledge of their production practices: we have indeed implemented in 2011 a complete diagnosis of our key fruit suppliers (80% of our fruit volumes), and have integrated environmental criteria in all our suppliers' specificities and contracts.

Improving energy efficiency

We are working toward improving our energy efficiency as one way to reduce our carbon footprint. As one example, we have introduced new high-performance boilers that consume 10% less electric power, which has resulted in savings of over 14.6 million kWh of electricity while at the same time reducing our CO₂ emissions.

Reducing CO₂ emissions

We have realized reductions in CO₂ emissions in all of our plants.

Reducing water usage

As water is one of our major ingredients, we are of course engaged in water preservation. Our water consumption in factories has been already reduced since 2006 by -10%. Regarding the quality of water we use, we have reinforced the control plans of our spring water in order to guarantee a high quality level.

Optimizing container packaging

Our 2009 carbon audit revealed that packaging was one of our main levers to reduce our carbon footprint. With the help of the Suntory Group, to which we belong, we thus focus on:

Our bottling division has introduced a new container packaging optimization program that has made excellent headway in our efforts to making more efficient use of our container packaging while also reducing associated waste materials.

Reducing waste

The manufacturing process for container packaging leads to significant waste. We have therefore started researching a radical new approach to reduce the amount of container packaging used, which will result in lighter and more easily recyclable containers.

Considering the environment during transport and distribution

We are concerned about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment, and are therefore working toward a distribution system that will lower such emissions. We are also working toward incorporating environmental concerns into our daily business activities.

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

We are determined to use our energy and positivism to be a key and innovative driver for healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

Supporting the EPODE program

We have thus decided in 2009 to co-fund a successful program supported by the European Commission in the field of obesity prevention, EPODE, based on educating children and their families on how to balance their diet and their lifestyle. Our Madrid headquarter has also become a pilot site for the Spanish EPODE approach, where each and every Spanish employee is henceforth involved for this cause.

Participating in the establishment of the Epicurium (a museum devoted to fruit and vegetables) with PEIFL

To promote healthier eating habits for our customers, we participated in establishing in France the Epicurium with Le Pôle Européen d'Innovation Fruits et Légumes (PEIFL), an organization created to improve competition in the fruit and vegetables industry. This museum, which opened in Avignon's Agroparc in June 2010, has become an important consumer resource for information related to fruits and vegetables.

Supporting Sports Activities

As sport is fully part of a healthy living, we actively support sports activities like handball or rugby, which are in line with the values and behaviors we strongly believe in.
As one of our efforts, we are partners of the UNSS (National Union for School Sports), a French organization that gets high school students involved in community sport organizations. Annually, close to 1 million teenagers (aged 12 -18) enroll to practice sports in any of the 81 disciplines covered by the UNSS and take part in various regional and nationwide sports competitions. Over 30,000 physical education teachers coach the students.
Internally, we pay particular attention to involve our employees in all our commitments, by promoting projects which make sense and generate a positive internal energy to make things move: each Orangina Schweppes Business Unit is thus engaged in local initiatives to promote more sustainable lifestyles that can create wellbeing and delight for local communities.

The OSÉS Project:

OSÉS (Orangina Schweppes Élans Solidaires) is a project established by Orangina Schweppes France to help disadvantaged children. Since its launch in 2005, it has sponsored over 100 projects such as "Ludopital," "Vaincre la Mucoviscidose," "Trait d'Union Le Havre," and "J'ai un Rêve."

Les Carrés de la Dignité

The Dar El Jamâa commune, affected by severe draught, is considered by the International FIDA (Fund for Agricultural Development) as the poorest in the region south of Marrakech in Morocco. Villagers established an association to set up micro projects known as "Les Carrés de la Dignité" to develop farming plots in order to provide them with income by selling agricultural products, creating and maintaining a more fulfilling life. The funding of this project by Orangina Schweppes has helped to create wells and irrigation systems and to acquire plants and seeds. Its success has fostered development, the integration of women into society, and higher literacy levels.

AFM

The AFM (Association Française contre les Myopathies) was created in 1958 to find cures for neuromuscular diseases that are rare genetic and intractable illnesses, help those inflicted by such diseases, and inform the public about them. In 1988, AFM launched a telethon targeting large supermarkets throughout France, seeking partners who would donate a percentage of their sales to AFM. In 1991, Orangina Schweppes became a partner, donating EUR 70,000 to this cause in 2007 alone.

Using the strength of our brands to impulse positive changes

As a company leading very famous brands, we also believe that our brands have a role to play in supporting and representing our corporate commitments.
Because of the influence they can have on our consumers, they must be responsible brands, using their personality, fun and energy to impulse positive changes in society.
Thus:

Conducting responsible marketing:

We have designed a special ethos and code of conduct for children's advertising. The guidelines include the following:

Encourage people to grow by daring each other

As a company on a human scale, human dimension is key for us. We strongly believe that performances are linked to people's well-being and pride in belonging to the company. We thus pay particular attention to the management of our employees, and really encourage people to grow by daring together, by stimulating the entrepreneurial spirit and building internally the good conditions to dare. We also strongly trust in diversity of individuals and characters, which is a key element to bring emulation and natural daring.
Because our employees' wellbeing is key for us, we have decided to study a "Great Place to Work", which we had very good results, showing that our employees' are very proud to belong to this company

Supporting internal healthy eating habits

As we believe that supporting healthy eating habits is one of our corporate responsibilities, we organized in 2009, a half-day seminar in France for 400 of our employees in order to improve their understanding of nutrition basics. Fruits are always available at all Orangina Schweppes' workplaces, inciting our staff to eat healthily and we also provide financial help to encourage our employees in sports activities.

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