Corporate responsibility is fully integrated into our day-to-day operations. Our corporate responsibility activities are organized around four main themes – healthy living, sustainable trade, climate action and community engagement. These areas are most relevant to our business and are where we believe we can make a positive impact. We aim to balance the interests of people, planet and profit to ensure our business is responsible, sustainable and profitable. Our strategy, goals and targets are set globally by Ahold and implemented locally.
In 2008, we established processes to collect data to track and report on our performance in corporate responsibility. This year, we have published our carbon footprint for the first time, along with targets and objectives for each of our corporate responsibility themes. Our reporting approach is based on the standards developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).