Corporate Social Responsibility

Sara Lee is committed to promoting wellness and nutrition, supporting our communities, and protecting our planet, in a manner consistent with our core values.

Our social and community initiatives focus on:

• Maintaining and enhancing programs that promote responsible and ethical behavior throughout our business;
• Supporting the professional growth and development of our employees;
• Fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion where all are treated with respect;
• contributing to the economic and social development of the locations where we source, manufacture and market our products
• Encouraging employees to be actively involved in improvement of the communities in which we live and work.

We are committed to protecting the quality of the environment and strive to continually improve our environmental performance through resource conservation, waste minimization, water and energy efficiency and effective use of raw materials. We measure our environmental performance and have set firm targets to drive more environmentally friendly practices. 

Sara Lee’s Global Business Practices program supports the Sara Lee culture where doing the right thing is our everyday way of doing business. It emphasizes not only compliance with laws, but also, more important, behavior consistent with Sara Lee’s mission, vision and values. The program gives employees a framework within which to make decisions.

Sara Lee is committed to sound principles of corporate governance and we believe that they are important to gaining and retaining the trust of investors, employees, customers and suppliers. We also understand that there is a healthy and energetic debate about what constitutes sound principles of corporate governance and the Guidelines are reviewed on a regular basis