Arcor

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Growing with sustainable management

Over 60 years ago, the pioneers who founded Arcor considered that the company would develop together with the progress of society, promoting the creation of economic, social and environmental value.

Therefore, along the years, sustainability consolidated as the orienting axis of business practice, throughout a gradual and cross-sectional process to all its businesses and interest groups.

As of 2004, Arcor started to work so as to generate a common vision of CSR by promoting co-responsibility of the actors involved and by setting a management corporate system. During 2009, the Group had a new challenge, to pass through the concept of CSR to that of sustainability, by defining Arcor’s sustainability policy and devising the strategy and the plan for the next years with the objective of contributing with the competitiveness of the business throughout the development of innovative and sustainable practices in the value chain. As of 2013, a stage of great achievements and challenges started for the group, having advanced in the proposed aims for each of its three pillars in the Sustainability Strategy 2013/2015: sustainability in the strategy of the business, sustainability in the performance of people, and sustainability in the management system.

The commitment with sustainable development, ethics and transparency are shown in Mission, Vision, Values and Ethical Principles, the Ethics and Conduct Code, and Sustainability policy which guide Arcor’s acts all over the world.

Ethics and Conduct Code

The Ethics and Conduct Code of Arcor Group is made up by the Values, Ethical Principles and Conduct Norms which guide the acting of all the people that are part of the company.

Values:

• Integrity: We take up an honest, transparent, coherent, austere and responsible behavior.
• Respect: We keep a prudent attitude which orients us to growth with a spirit of self-criticism and becoming aware of our virtues and weaknesses.
• Leadership: We have a long-term vision which impulses us to look for innovative ways of competitiveness, optimizing with creativity and ingenuity the resources we count with.
• Commitment: We conceive Management based on continuous progress, stimulating interaction, effort, and with the contribution of all our people towards the achievements of results.
• Confidence: We build up relations based on personal and professional background by giving support and safety to all those with whom we link.

Ethical Principles:

They set up an ethical and transparent framework for the construction of durable and trustworthy relations with groups of interest, promoting an integrity culture and of legal compliance for a sustainable and competitive commercial context:

• 1 Principle

  Acting with transparency and respecting the established agreements with different people with whom the company links, promoting lasting and trustworthy relationships.

• 2 Principle

  Employing the highest available standards of quality and service, with the aim of satisfying our clients and consumers.

• 3 Principle

  Generating innovative growth and development modes which may add value to the company and its shareholders.

• 4 Principle

  Promoting supportive communications by searching for the truth of information and facts.

• 5 Principle

  Providing a safe and healthy work environment which stimulates initiative, creativity and the continuous growth of the company’s human capital.

• 6 Principle

  Contributing to the integral development of the communities in which we act and of the society in general, respecting cultures and customs.

• 7 Principle

  Establishing sustainable management of the processes, based on a balance between economic, social and environmental dimensions.

• 8 Principle

  Respecting national and International laws and regulations by integrating our value chain within this commitment and promoting a sustainable and competitive commercial context.