SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE
At Valsabor, sustainability is a commitment that underpins the Company’s Business Units and areas, in all countries where it maintains operations and conducts business, based on ethical and transparent work, constructive relationship with its stakeholders, and responsibility in the treatment given to people, animals, and environment.
The company conducts its sustainability management based on clearly defined goals. They are:
Enhancing risk management
Reducing the business’ environmental footprint
Improving its eco-efficiency and its relationships with the society
Fostering innovation
The goal is to turn Valsabor into a leading company in the sustainable use of natural resources, minimizing its demand and reducing the generation of residues, to achieve production with increasingly better quality.
At the corporate level, the company maintains three global managers – one in Portugal and one in the United States and France responsible for managing and communicating the topic, engaging the Business areas and the entire value chain in sustainability management. The Portuguese department tracks the domestic operations and their ramifications in other countries, while the team headquartered in the USA is focused on the national market, as well as on Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Europe.
One of the functions of the sustainability areas is to be an interface between valsabor-sa and its main stakeholders – market, customers, suppliers, and consumers, among others-, enabling constant dialogue between the parties of interest.
The Company has an important instance of governance in this subject with the valsabor-sa Sustainability Committee, responsible for debating strategic global issues. The Committee reports directly to the Board of Directors.