Corporate Social Responsibility

We know our customers want easy, affordable shopping. But, they also want us to be responsible, fair and honest. We are a part of thousands of communities. And we want to play our part well. That’s why we’ve developed five Community Promises. Right now, Tesco staff all over are putting them into action – helping the environment, helping customers stay healthy, learning and applying new skills, supporting local producers or getting involved with local groups.

Our five promises change the way we do business and keep us focused the things that matter. To read this year's report visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/

Tesco Community Champions

The idea is simple. We find out who loves working with the community and we help them. The local school, a local charity or local organisation. It could be helping police get kids in car seats, or collecting in stores for a local charity. This is a really worthwhile idea and that’s why we’re introducing it all over the world. We have over 270 Community Champions in s countries.

To learn more visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/communities.aspx

Buying and Selling Responsibly

We have thousands of suppliers around the world and we’ve never expected more from them. We want every one of our suppliers to be dynamic and innovative – but we also demand that they treat their employees fairly and show that they respect the environment. That means more local sourcing – which is now £800m of our annual turnover, in the UK alone. It means checking where everything we buy comes from and ensuring the suppliers are up to scratch. We have now trained over 400 suppliers in Bangladesh, India, China, Spain and the UK on improving labour standards.

To learn more visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/buying-and-selling-our-products-responsibly.aspx

A little care for the environment

We’re cutting our direct impact all the time and encouraging suppliers and customers to do the same. In fact, we’ve pledged to be a zero carbon business by 2050. Right now, we want:

• to halve carbon emissions from all new stores worldwide between before 2020 (compared with an equivalent store built in 2006)
• to halve emissions from our existing stores and distribution centres worldwide by 2020
• to halve the CO₂ created per case of goods delivered worldwide by 2012 (compared with 2006)

This year we diverted 100% of our waste in the UK directly away from landfill. We also gave 120 products a carbon-label, to help customers make environmental choices.

To learn more visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/environmental.aspx

Healthy options, more choice

We’re always helping our customers make healthy choices. New healthier ranges; helping customers eat more fruit and vegetables; better nutritional labelling – all these things help us eat healthily. We’re getting people moving too. Last year we got 7 million people active across the group, with aerobics in Thailand, football in China and charity runs in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

To learn more visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/healthy-choices.aspx

Creating jobs, building careers

At Tesco, our growth always means jobs. Our success has given people a steady income and real security for them and their family. We create local jobs, so local communities share in our success. Over the last ten years we have created on average one new job every 20 minutes. Thousands of those jobs have gone to people who had been unemployed for some time, but who can now enjoy the benefits of working for Tesco. Last year, for instance, we created 667 jobs for long-term unemployed people through eight new UK regeneration schemes.

To learn more visit: http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/our-people.aspx