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Adopting a “direct-
to-customer” model
continues to deliver
improved results.
Bidcorp commitment to sustainability
The diverse environmental and socio-
economic realities in which we operate,
demand different and flexible responses to
issues of sustainability. In line with Bidcorp’s
managerial approach, we believe that our
individual companies are best positioned
to respond to the sustainability priorities of
their operations – from a legislative, resource
availability, employee and social investment
perspective.
Bidcorp builds on this decentralised base
through group-wide policies on bribery,
corruption, environmental management, and
critical sustainability metrics businesses are
required to report on.
Sustainability governance
The board’s social and ethics committee
oversees the quarterly reporting of the
group’s sustainability activities. While the
decentralised business model promotes
appropriate responses from our companies,
the committee is guided by a group-wide
materiality assessment and stakeholder
impact analysis. Key among these, include
responsible product sourcing, environmental
impact, employee well being, and our
responsibility as a corporate entity to support
social investment programmes.
Responsible product sourcing
As a foodservices company, our global
products are sourced from a variety of third
party suppliers in differing geographies.
We must be able to guarantee quality and
ethically produced products and, hence, we
uphold a code of conduct that stipulates
environmental standards, human rights,
employee working conditions, occupational
health and safety standards and business
ethics that we believe reflect the integrity of
Bidcorp.
See:
Environmental commitment
We view our environmental reporting
as an ever-developing strategic focus.
Environmental management equates to
sound business management as much as
it relates to protection of our planet. Our
environmental impact is largely driven by
consumption of various resources that
are high-cost items in our operational
budgets such as fuel sources for our fleet.
Of these, we have achieved consistency in
consumption over the past two years against
a backdrop of higher growth.
Strategy: “All about the food”
We continue to
focus on high
margin independent
business.
“Foodservice is our core business”
Female
employees
Male
employees
Lost-time injury
frequency rate (LTIFR)
Employee
training spend
7 015 18 598 40 R84,3m
2016: 6 448 2016: 17 616 2016: 73* 2016: R34,4m
LABOUR
Number of employees Fatalities Payroll spend
25 613 0 R14 034m
2016: 24 064 2016: 0 2016: R12 500m
SOCIAL
CSI spend
R27,1m
2016: R10,0m*
Annual integrated report 2017
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