▶KT&G ‘2014/15 Sustainability Report cover
KT&G published ‘2014/15 Sustainability Report to show its will and achievement about sustainable business transparently to various parties.
The report contains kind descriptions on KT&G’s distinguished efforts to strive for value system to become a globally excellent company and transparent management structure by board of directors. The Report also explained on the status of major business including tobacco, ginseng, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and also suggested medium-and long-term strategy.
KT&G included its diverse activities for sustainable developments including ‘management to satisfy customers’ through systematic brand management and quality control, ‘eco-business’ through eco-friendly R&D and energy-saving activity, ‘co-prosperity management’ via mutual growth with suppliers and tobacco farmers, and ‘sharing management’ for supporting economically challenged people and culture & art.
In particular, the report, in detail, explained on distinguished corporate social responsibility activities of KT&G including Global CRS Activity in Indonesia, Mongolia and so on, culture support activity via Sangsang Madang, a culture & art complex, and Sangsang Fund, a CSR fund voluntarily funded by KT&G employees. The report described on various family-friendly system for the work-life balance of the employees.
Since its first publication of the Sustainability Report in 2008, KT&G published total five reports every second year. The reports were prepared complying with GRI(Global Reporting Initiative) G4 to enhance objectivity and credibility.
Mr. Bok-in Baek, CEO of KT&G, acknowledged in its address of publication, “In 2015, KT&G produced sustainable management results and newly suggested its core values including transparency - ethics, communication - sympathy, and self-motivation – success. KT&G will keep listening to the voice of all the related parties and continuously try to become a national company leading corporate social responsibility.
▶ KT&G ‘2014/15 Sustainability Report inserts
