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We have a clear role to play in making high-quality foods affordable
to everyone, and in giving customers the information they need to
make healthy food choices. We can also use our trusted brand to
encourage our staff and customers across the world to adopt healthy,
active lifestyles.
We currently have 100% nutrition labelling on eligible own-brand food
lines in all of our markets and we offer Healthy Eating brands in seven
countries. Our Healthy Eating brands are nutritionally balanced
products that have controlled amounts of fats, sugar and salt.
Last year, we encouraged over 7.2 million staff and customers to get
active across the world – exceeding our targets in all markets. Our
‘Get Healthy with Tesco Lotus’ programme helped 4.2 million people
get active in 2010 through an aerobics competition, an annual ‘Tesco
Lotus Walkathon’ and football clinics.
In the UK, our Great School Run involved over 1 million primary school
children and more than 700,000 customers and staff took part in
Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life and Run 10k.
Actively supporting local communities
The local communities around our stores are home to many of our
customers, staff and suppliers. We want Tesco to be more than a store
to them. This means being in tune with the needs and values of local
communities, engaging positively on the issues that matter to them
and making lasting contributions that improve local areas. By doing
this, we ensure we are true to our values, and help build our customers’
lifetime loyalty.
We have exceeded our target of donating at least 1% of pre-tax profits
to charities and good causes. In total, this means that we have donated
over £64 million this year. We have also raised £7.2 million for our UK
Charity of the Year, CLIC Sargent.
We are continuing to roll out our Community Champions across
the Group. Community Champions are Tesco employees who spend
a proportion of their week coordinating activities in their local
communities. Our customers want to feel engaged in their local causes
and the best people to identify these causes are living and working in
the communities they support. We now have over 650 Community
Champions across the Group.
In Thailand, we achieved our ‘one million hours’ volunteering target,
reinforcing our position as the retailer perceived to be most supportive
of local communities. Last year in the Czech Republic, our Tesco
Foundation shared £23,700 between 21 NGOs, with the donation
being used for a variety of schemes from the tutoring of disadvantaged
children through to equipment for disabled people.
Following on from the success of our UK Community Fairs initiative in
2009, we increased the number of Community Fairs to 100. The fairs,
held up and down the UK, provided an opportunity for local charities
to sign up new volunteers and for local suppliers to showcase their
products. The fairs were a resounding success, with over 10,000 new
volunteers signing up for local projects.
Creating good jobs and careers
We have over 290,000 employees across the UK, making us the biggest
private-sector employer in this market, and over 492,000 worldwide.
We are dedicated to providing diverse career opportunities for all our
staff worldwide – from positions in stores, to roles for store managers,
buyers, accountants and lawyers. This year, we increased the total
number of staff in the Group by 21,000.
Our Regeneration Partnership stores in the UK help long-term
unemployed people get back to work and guarantee face-to-face
interview training for everyone who applies. Our successful candidates
have an eight-week training course on life skills and confidence
building, after which they begin work in our stores. This year, we
developed eight new Regeneration Partnerships – bringing the
total to 35 stores, and around 4,000 jobs created for long-term
unemployed people.
For more information on creating good jobs and careers, see pages
42 to 45.
TESCO GREAT SCHOOL RUN
Over one million primary school
children in the UK took part in
our Great School Run.
We are committed to buying
and selling our products responsibly
to ensure that everyone involved is
treated fairly.
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