CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY

At Aspire Brands, we define Corporate Social Responsibility as follows:

  • Conducting business in a socially responsible and ethical manner;
  • Protecting the environment and the safety of people;
  • Supporting human rights; and
  • Engaging, learning from, respecting, and supporting the communities and cultures with which we work.

Aspire Brands will ensure that all matters of Corporate Social Responsibility are considered and supported in our operations and administrative matters. This Policy applies to activities undertaken by or on behalf of Aspire Brands and its controlled subsidiaries anywhere in the world.

All Aspire Brands employees will adopt the Corporate Social Responsibility considerations into their day-to-day work activities. The leaders of Aspire Brands will act as role models incorporating these considerations into decision-making in all business activities. Aspire Brands’ leaders will ensure that appropriate organizational structures are in place to effectively identify, monitor and manage Corporate Social Responsibility issues and performance relevant to our business.

This Policy is built on the following areas that reflect existing and emerging standards of Corporate Social Responsibility:

BUSINESS ETHICS & TRANSPARENCY

Aspire Brands is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and corporate governance practices to maintain excellence in its daily operations. Aspire Brands will conduct its business in an open, honest, and ethical manner.

Aspire Brands recognizes the importance of protecting all our human, financial, physical, informational, social, environmental, and reputational assets. We will advise our partners, contractors, and suppliers of our Corporate Social Responsibility Policy, and will work with them to achieve consistency with this policy.


HEALTH & SAFETY

Aspire Brands is committed to protecting the health and safety of all individuals affected by our activities and products, including our employees, contractors, and the public. Aspire Brands will provide a safe and healthy working environment and will not compromise the health and safety of any individual.
All employees are responsible for contributing to a safe working environment, for fostering safe working attitudes and for operating in an environmentally responsible manner.


HUMAN RIGHTS

Aspire Brands will not tolerate human rights abuse and will not engage or be complicit in any activity that solicits or encourages human rights abuse – directly or indirectly.

Aspire Brands will always strive to build trust, deliver mutual advantage, and demonstrate respect for human dignity and rights in all relationships it enters – including respect for cultures, customs and values of individuals and groups.


STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS

Aspire Brands will engage stakeholders clearly, honestly, and respectfully.
Aspire Brands is committed to timely and meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, and governments among other.

ENVIRONMENT

Aspire Brands recognizes that pollution prevention, biodiversity and resource conservation are key to a sustainable environment. Aspire Brands will effectively integrate these concepts into our business decision-making.

Aspire Brands commits to reduce our environmental impact by complying with applicable environmental legislation, preventing the contamination, or minimizing its possible impact on natural resources and people. Aspire Brands will support circular economy.


EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Aspire Brands will ensure that employees are treated fairly and that diversity in the workplace is embraced.

Aspire Brands will apply fair labor practices, while respecting the national and local laws of the countries and communities where we operate.

Aspire Brands is committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not engage in or tolerate unlawful workplace conduct, including discrimination, intimidation, or harassment.


COMMUNITY INVESTMENT

Aspire Brands stresses collaborative, consultative and partnership approaches in the communities in which we operate. We will initiate and support community investments and educational programs in addition to providing support to nonprofit organizations or movements to promote cultural and economic development of global and local communities.
Aspire Brands will strive to provide employment and economic opportunities in our communities.


LEARNING

Aspire Brands will be open to suggestions and listen carefully to ideas, as well as continuously work to improve the way it operates.