Sustainability is nothing new at Lion Nathan. Good businesses were employing sustainable practices long before it became fashionable to create a discipline of Sustainability.
For us, Sustainability begins with our core purpose of making our world a more sociable place.
We believe in the value of sociability. We deliver great benefits to Australians and New Zealanders by providing them with fantastic products to accompany and enhance life’s sociable occasions.
The misuse of our products undermines sociability and is therefore fundamentally at odds with our reason for being.
We champion sociability through encouraging healthy drinking behaviours and discouraging behaviours in the community that undermine sociability.
We are led by our values and a commitment to the right behaviours …
At the heart of any company’s sustainability strategy should be its people and its culture.
Quality policies and procedures are important in any business, but they mean nothing without the right behaviours.
At Lion Nathan, we are investing in our people to make sure they can be the best they can be, really make a difference and have a great time doing it.
In doing so, we are creating highly engaged people, led by our deeply held values and our behaviours that add value.
We are a company that believes that behaviours are as important as results. If you are achieving great results at Lion Nathan, but you are not doing it in the right way, you will be asked to address your behaviour or leave our business. We believe that success delivered with the wrong behaviours is unsustainable.
Highly engaged people, who understand the needs of their stakeholders and behave in a
way that meets them, are the key to sustainable success.
Our value of Acting with Integrity underpins our approach to business. While many businesses focus primarily on short term results, a key Lion Nathan behaviour is doing the right thing for the long term.
Consequently, we don’t see sustainability as an add-on that’s conducted only by a specialist team. For us, it’s core business, conducted by everyone.
Aspiring to leadership …
Our vision is to become Australia’s and New Zealand’s leading alcoholic beverage company. Only by aspiring to leadership in the management of our social and environmental footprint and by delivering on the reasonable needs of our stakeholders, will we maximise the business benefits of our investment in sustainability.
Consistent with this, we’re making a significant and measurable investment in voluntary social and environmental initiatives, at least 1% of operating net profit after tax (NPAT ).
Creating sustainable returns…
By creating an organisation of highly engaged people with the right culture and values and backing that up with the right policies and processes, we will over-deliver on the reasonable needs of all our stakeholders, making them more likely to partner with, buy from or endorse our business and our brands.
We are creating a business that is built to last – a business that not only creates value now, but long into the future.
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