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Carphone Warehouse Group plc
Annual Report 2014 25
STRATEGIC REPORT
Corporate responsibility
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
For 25 years, we have been connecting people, adapting and evolving the business
toaddvalue for customers and shareholders.
Our corporate mission statement, ‘Weexistto make more lives better through
connected technology’, helps to define ourroleas a retailer in a unique position
tokeep people connected and show themhowconnected technology can
changetheir lives.
Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP and Andrew Harrison, Group CEO of Carphone
Warehouse, at the first Tablets for Schools conference in November .
Emma Solomon OBE, speaking at the National Digital Conference in June .
Lawrence Dallaglio with youths involved in the Rugby for Change programme.
We were delighted and privileged to have had
CarphoneWarehouse’s support for Spring Online .
Their involvement was instrumental in enabling local
organisations to provide digital learning opportunities for
communities. Carphone Warehouse’s in-store taster
events were a fantastic reflection of the organisation’s
vision of making people’s lives better through technology.”
Emma Solomon OBE, Managing Director, Digital Unite
The Board is committed to operating a responsible
and ethical business. We listen to our customers,
shareholders and employees, as well as local and
wider communities to understand their expectations
and ensure they are reflected in our business decisions.
Our priorities are to engage employees with our vision
and values; tomake a noticeable difference in the
communities inwhich we operate; to minimise our
impact on the environment; and towork towards
amore sustainablebusiness forthefuture.
HIGHLIGHTS 2013-14
During – we set out to make even more lives
betterthroughdiverse activities. New initiatives included:
— headline sponsorship of the national Spring Online
campaigntotackle digital and social exclusion;
— the first Tablets for Schools conference; and
— a charity-driven fitness day to improve health
awarenessandraise funds for the Dallaglio
Foundation’sRugby forChange programme.
Carphone Warehouse was the first company to get behind
our life-enhancing Dallaglio Foundation’s Rugby for Change
programme which aims to give young people the opportunity
to make a mark on the world by giving them the means and
inspiration to change their lives for the better, engaging
them through the power of rugby and sport."
Lawrence Dallaglio OBE, Rugby for Change