How is your business sustainable? The social balance sheet

OUR BUSINESS Microsoft is a technology company whose mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our strategy is to build best-inclass platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud- first world.

OUR APPROACH Building a fabric of trust is paramount to realizing our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This means winning and preserving the trust of our customers, partners, and governments around the globe. We work to build and maintain trust through a shared commitment to ethical behavior and by acting with integrity in everything we do.

BILL GATES BORN OCTOBER 28,1955 FOUNDER AND HONORARY PRESIDENT OF MICROSOFT.

Perhaps the most important driver of our success is culture. We fundamentally believe that we need a culture founded in a growth mindset. It starts with a belief that everyone can grow and develop; that potential is nurtured, not predetermined; and that anyone can change their mindset. Our leadership is focused on bringing out the best in people, so that everyone is bringing their “A game” and finding deep meaning in their work. OUR PEOPLE

Microsoft offers competitive compensation and benefits to attract the world’s best talent in over 100 countries, and rewards people for great results. Our Performance and Development approach and rewards program applies to Microsoft employees globally at every level of the organization to the extent permitted by local law. Compensation and Benefits

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Microsoft believes that information technology has tremendous potential to help solve pressing environmental and energy challenges. We understand and embrace the opportunity to help people and organizations around the world improve the environment. We seek to advance sustainability through the products and cloud capabilities we offer to our customers and partners, and the use of big data to discover the next generation of innovations and insights.energy sustainability

GAS EMISSION REDUCTION

IKEA

Emission from IKEA In the mid- 80 there was a serious problem : the emission of formaldehyde from wood shavings used for furniture dangerously exceed the limits imposed by the Danish authorities. Chipboard is one of the most important raw materials for IKEA, and the negative effects of formaldehyde on human health ( allergies, maybe cancer ) are too well known to be able to ignore. Ikea is the great jump and aims to use only materials that comply with the emission levels Germans, the most stringent existing at the time.emissionformaldehyde

Towards a sustainable future Through the amount of visitors in our stores and online, we have unique possibilities to inspire and enable millions of people to live a more sustainable life at home by offering sustainable and energy-saving solutions, affordable to all. We also want our own operations to be sustainable, and we have a goal to become resource and energy independent. For many years we do a careful use of resources and helping to create a better everyday life for most people. This also means living more sustainably. One year after the launch of our sustainability strategy, People & Planet Positive, we have made ​​ great progress.sustainability

….. Today, more than 76 % of the cotton in our range come from more sustainable sources. More than 700,000 solar panels are installed on IKEA Buildings around the world and we are working to introduce 224 wind turbines We are working to make the LED light more accessible, to allow more peolple to live more sustainably and save on utility bills

FY14 In FY14 (Ikea's project about Sustainability) we made considerable investments in renewable energy as part of our commitment to produce as much Renewable energy as we consume by the end of 2020

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Corporate social responsability SustainabilitySustainability and socially responsible action are central fea- tures of Lindt & Sprüngli’s corporate philosophy. Workers: At the end of 2013, Lindt & Sprüngli employed 8,949 people worldwide. Employee satisfaction is the key to the Group’s long-term success. For this purpose, a new further training tool for personnel development was implemented in

Environment: the Group’s environmental guidelines aim to safeguard the conservation of ecological resources. This is done, for example, through energy-saving projects or byenergy-saving taking part in international initiatives. Safety at the workplace: with the Group-wide “Health & Safety” program, the number of occupational accidents has been greatly reduced in recent years. Consumers: in recent years there was a constant increase i the number of consumer enquiries. It has been recorded by a System CRM and provide information about matters of central concern to consumers.CRM

Supplier Code of Conduct: Lindt&Sprugli is committed to ethical and socially responsible company management. It has undertaken since 2010 to comply with UN Global Compact directives. These are based on ten principles in the areas of human rights, working standards, environmental protection and the prevention of corruption. All suppliers are required to comply with them by respecting the Supplier's Code.environmental protection Social Commitment: A substantial sum was again set aside for a program to facilitate winter assistance for deprived children in Switzerland. Further financial and material donations were made to the victims of the catastrophic floodings in the Philippines and also to many local organizations.

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability is at the heart of everything that they do - from how they source their products and packaging, how they manage their manufacturing, sales and distribution, and how their work with customers and consumers to close the loop in recycling their packaging. Please take a look below to see more about their sustainability journey.Responsibility

They will support the development of a circular economy, use recycled and renewable materials and recycle more packaging than they use.development In order to ensure a supply of resources in the future, society needs to find new, renewable sources of raw materials that can be reused and recycled.resources

errero International S.A closed the financial year with a consolidated turnover of 8,412 million Euros, with an increase of 3.9% from the previous period.

ast year, Ferrero invested 537 million Euros, of which 458 million was used to strengthen the Group’s industrial and production activities all over the world.

he Ferrero Group is strengthening its presence in the hazelnut market, to guarantee and improve the quality of the main raw materials.

- 40% emissions CO2 resulting from production activities, compared to % greenhouse gas emissions in transport and storage, compared to % self-produced energy, of which 25% from renewable sources. Partially achieved 100% Oil palm fruit as segregated RSPO certified sustainable. RSPO From January % virgin paper from certified sustainable supply chain By % use of packaging made from renewable sources, compared to

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (2004) is aimed to promote the growth and the use of sustainable oil palm products.