Tesco's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives

A Corporate Responsibility committee was established in 2001; it comprised of cross functional executives, who met four times a year to look into the matters of CSR at Tesco. The committee was headed by the Director, Group Corporate Affairs. The committee came out with its first CSR report in 2001 (Refer Table II for responsibilities of corporate responsibility committee). Tesco's Steering Wheel framework was used to measure its achievement of CSR key performance indicators (KPI), which formed a part of the operations quadrant, in the 'responsible and safe' segment (Refer Exhibit III for details of Tesco's Steering Wheel). CSR was made a part of the Tesco steering wheel in order to ensure that corporate responsibility formed a part of the day-to-day activities of the company...

However, the company committed itself to maintaining a healthy environment and made all employees take an active role in its environmental initiatives.

ENERGY, WATER AND FUEL

Tesco launched its energy awareness campaign in 1996. The company's staff was expected to take active part in it. Managers in all Tesco stores, depots and offices monitored energy use and worked towards reducing waste. Tesco reduced the energy consumption per square foot by 35% between 1997 and 2005, and planned to reduce it further by 5% by 2006 (Refer Table III for the details of energy consumption at Tesco between 2000 and 2005)...