Conduct a research on the CSR initiatives/programs that had adopted by Tesco Hypermarket for the past ONE (1) years.
The Chief Executive, Phillip Clarke said: "Our scale
gives us an opportunity to make a positive difference to some of the biggest
challenges facing the world." These are a few CSR initiatives and programs
that had adopted by Tesco Hypermarket for the past one year. The first one is,
to create new opportunities for millions of young people around the world by
inspiring, equipping and enabling millions of young people to succeed in the
world of work. It means giving more chance to young people that needs it. To
improve health and through this help to tackle the global obesity crisis by
helping and encouraging our 500,000 colleagues and 50 million customers to live
healthier lives. Next, it is to lead in reducing food waste globally by working
with our producers and suppliers and helping the customers we serve to find
ways to reduce food waste. In 2013, Tesco is laying foundations so they can set
meaningful targets. Tesco has set themselves with big ambitions because as a
company with scale, they believe that they can make a difference. The
essentials are to trade responsibly, like putting the customers first and
working with our suppliers to innovate and provide high quality products. The
second essentials are reducing impacts on the environment, for example aiming
to be a zero-carbon business by 2050 and to use scarce resources responsibly,
including in their supply chain. Following with being a great employer by
creating inspiring work that makes our colleagues happy and proud of what they
do. The last essentials is, supporting their local communities like being a
good neighbor and running our business to the highest standards.
In
2013, 75 million of young people are unemployed globally, 120 million potential
new young workers enter the global labor market each year. Why does this
matters? One thing which unites everyone who works with and shops at Tesco is
the belief that young people need support and opportunities to make most of
their lives. They knows that every family wants the best for their children and
every community and employers wants confident, engaged and skilled young
people. Tesco wants to draw from their capacity to hire, train and develop
people's career to address the challenge of creating new opportunities for
millions of young people. Tesco wants to inspire young people to broaden their
horizons and realize their potential, they will equip the young people with the
social and specialist skills they need for work. And Tesco will then enable
hundreds and thousands of young people to get started on a career. Other than
this, Tesco wants to break the cycle - no job: no experience; no experience: no
job. They know that young people cannot do this on their own. They need
business to step up and give them their initial opportunity. Tesco believes
that if taking on this challenge is that, if they can achieve their ambitions,
they can make a practical difference to young people, their families and
everyone of these communities.
One of the key part of their plan is to go into
schools and inspire young people about the possibilities ahead of them. They
also want to equip young people for the future like bringing in new training
and apprenticeship programs to give young people more workplace skills. Tesco wants to enable
young people to succeed in the world of work. Job creation has slowed
substantially since the financial crisis and where vacancies do exists, young
people have to compete with candidates who have more experience. Our plan is to
use the chance of experience with Tesco to help break the cycle and enable
hundreds of thousands of young people to get started on a career. These are
some of the activities planned across the Group in 2013/4: For inspiring, South
Korea are launching a mentoring program for high school and college students.
In Czech Republic, they run an online retail business game for university
students. On the other hand, Poland launch an outreach program where Tesco colleagues
visit their former schools. For equipping, UK offers 5,000 places on our
apprenticeship programs. Thailand provide 365 scholarships for university
students from deprived backgrounds. Then, UK, Ireland and Poland donate
learning equipment to thousands of schools and clubs. Turkey offers educational
class through Tesco's Kipa Family Clubs. For enable, UK created 500 jobs for
young long-term unemployed people through our Regeneration Partnership Stores.
South Korea expands their paid internship program for college students and
offer opportunities for full-time employment after six months. Lastly, in
Ireland they triple the number of places on our graduate program.
The
second ambition is to help and encourage Tesco's customers and colleagues to
live a healthier live. And also help to tackle the global obesity crisis.
According to Tesco, it matters because it is true that health matters to all of
us and we want to enjoy active and healthy lives so that we can feel good
physically and mentally. Most of us understands that health and wellbeing can
be achieved by avoiding bad habits, being active and eating the right food, and
most of us lack the money, time and motivation to make this a reality. As one
of the biggest providers of food and beverage globally, Tesco has the
responsibility to help their customers to bridge the gap between knowing and
doing, and achieve the behavior change that they desire. By helping their
colleagues and customers to live healthily, Tesco plays a significant role in
tackling the global obesity crisis. With their stores all around the world
providing food to millions, coupled with our insights into consumer behavior,
they are well placed to do this. Tesco knows that it won't be easy and they
understands that it will mean taking some difficult decisions along the way.
However, through building a deeper understanding of the emotional drivers
behind people's diet and lifestyles, they can work out what matters and how can
they help. At Tesco, they believe they need to help tackle the problem and make
it easier for their colleagues and customers to live healthier lives in six
basic ways:
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Help their colleagues lead healthier lives at
work and at home.
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Reformulate and more clearly label our products.
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Create a
store environment that encourages and promote healthier choices.
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Provide customers
with more personalized information so that they can choose solutions tailored
to their individual needs.
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Provide services and advice that can balance
their customer's lifestyle.
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Inspire their customers, colleagues and
communities to be more active.
The last ambition
that Tesco wishes to achieved at the end of 2013 is reducing food
waste. At
Tesco, they buy, move and sell food - it is what they do and they do it with a
scale, all over the world. This is why they have set themselves the ambition to
lead in reducing food waste globally. Tesco reduces food waste globally by
working with their producers and suppliers and helping the customers we serve
find ways to reduce food waste. The nature of their business is to offer a wide
range of foods to our customers every day, means that there is only some
surplus food that we have stocked but have not been able to sell. In the UK,
Tesco uses a list of hierarchy to manage their waste:
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Try to minimize any waste, for example by
reducing to-clear foods close to their expiry date in stores.
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If food cannot be sold, offers it where possible
to those in need by donating to charities.
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Send bakeries waste to be converted into animal
food for livestock. Out of date chicken and raw meat products are processed
into pet food and their chicken fat and cooking oil is converted into
biodiesel.
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If these options are not available, we recover
energy from food waste through anaerobic digestion or incineration.
On
November 17, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysians put on their walking shoes in
support raising funds for the underprivileged children who are undergoing
leukemia treatment at the University of Malaya Medical Centre(UMMC). Tesco
Malaysia held its sixth annual Walk for Life 2013 today at the scenic
University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur campus. Walk for Life is one of Tesco
Malaysia's fundraising effort aimed to raise RM1 million to help 100 children
with leukemia from underprivileged background within 3 years. Jointly organized
by Tesco Malaysia and UMMC, 2013's Walk for Life raised over RM100,000 in cash
as well as in kind. The Walk for Life campaign has raised RM600,000 since the
launch in 2012. The funds raised today will help families bear the cost of
medication, treatment and hospital travel expenses for young leukemia patients.
The funds to help finance the children’s treatments are disbursed on a
quarterly basis to needy children with leukemia identified by UMMC. The Walk
for Life is made possible with the sponsorships from Tesco Malaysia's including
The Continuity Company (M) Sdn Bhd and Protect & Gamble Malaysia Sdn Bhd,
among others. This is one of the CSR activities that Tesco has adopted by
Tesco.
Next, on September 20, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, in support of
the government's initiative to mitigate the rising cost of living, Tesco
Malaysia announced a long term price campaign to help its customers to save
more. Tesco invested RM2.3 million to reduce prices on 18 essential fresh food
item throughout its 47 stores nationwide for this campaign. The Tesco price
campaign will ensure that customers can enjoy low prices with discounts of up
to 37% on key essential fresh products beginning 20 September until 1 December
2013. These are popular everyday products our customers buy that include whole
chicken, whole salmon, golden pomfret, imported beef, cucumbers, lemons,
pineapples and Cavendish bananas among others. Tesco’s CEO, Georg Fischer
said, "Our core purpose at Tesco is to make what matters better for our
customers. Given the recent fuel hike and after listening to our customers,
Tesco has the obligation to intensify our efforts and help our customers save
on our food products that matter to them. As one of Malaysia’s leading
hypermarket, we continue to lead by offering promotions of over 1000 products
on weekly basis and while still maintaining the high standards of quality and
freshness our customers have always enjoyed." Fischer also noted that the
hypermarket has seen an increasing number of customers buying Tesco’s own brand
products which matches the leading brand quality but with 20 percent lower
prices. Tesco has over 2000 lines ranging from food to household items and some
of the top selling Tesco branded items are Tesco Choice Sweetened Creamer,
Tesco Choice Fresh Milk, Chocomalt, Tesco Carbonated Soft Drinks and Tesco
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