At Bel, our desire is to ensure that our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is taken into consideration on equal footing with our financial imperatives. Corporate, social and environmental considerations must therefore be fully integrated into our decision-making processes within our subsidiaries and our different trades in order to reconcile economic development with the respect for humanity and the environment.

To assist our teams in carrying out this challenge, we have established a Group Corporate Social Responsibility program built around 5 pillars that set out the programs commitments and main areas for development.

1. Accessible products that are nutritionally beneficial
2. Responsible, actively involved brands
3. Activities that reduce our environmental footprint
4. A company actively committed to the communities in which it operates
5. A company that listens to its employees

This dynamic process aimed at progressing in CSR has been active in certain trades and countries for several years. Now, however, the CSR effort has been organized at the Group level and involves the participation of all the Group’s collaborators. Nevertheless, the components that constitute a CSR program for an international Group such as ours must take into account the specific needs and expectations of each country in which it operates. Therefore, the program that we are currently implementing will allow each one of our entities to apply Bel’s CSR policy in a way that makes it relevant within its own context and that addresses the needs and expectations of its own stakeholders.

We are making a concentrated effort to ensure that the Group’s CSR program is communicated to all our collaborators so that they can make the program thrive at their site, in their trade or in their product category.

Guillaume Jouët
Vice-President CSR

The Bel Group is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. The Group is committed to embrace, support and enact the 10 core principles of the Global Compact in favour of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption. See the UN Global Compact Ten Principles