GREEN MARKETING COMPANY - THE BODY SHOP
...d accessories from suppliers, who they screen under our Ethical Trade programme, and from our Community Trade suppliers. b) Values The Body Shop Values Mission commits the Company to the pursuit of social and environmental change. The Trading Charter defines the principles by which they will trade in order to deliver profits with principles. This includes instituting appropriate monitoring, auditing and disclosure mechanisms to ensure accountability. The Body Shop is committed to maintaining high standards of social and environmental performance. They believe in doing business with integrity and transparency. This means using ethical principles to inform the way they do business, setting themselves and their business partners’ clear standards of practice. It also involves engaging stakeholders behind their business aims, and reporting on their performance and our intent to improve within the overall context of their business strategy. The Body Shop has an ultimate goal of being socially, economically and ecologically sustainable. They aim to ensure the responsible and ethical management of all their activities. This policy covers the entirety of the environmental impacts that The Body Shop either directly causes, or can influence. It focuses on key impacts and responsibilities to act to protect the environment throughout their global business. c) Strategies Recent leadership and organizational changes have provided an opportunity to review their values strategy and clarify accountabilities across the business. They are evolving their values approach to deliver clear and tangible commitments to the customers. As a retail business there are many activities involved in bringing products to market that have a direct impact on the environment. Examples include fuel used to distribute goods to the stores, waste generated by the office activities and store design. In a wider context, they are able to influence the life cycle of The Body Shop products, from product ingredients to the disposal of packaging waste at the end of a product’s use. As a campaigning organization, they must also ensure that they remain...