Executive Summary
The purpose of this report is evaluate how effective the current environmental, ethical and social policies and practices within Tesco. As environmental reporting pulled more and more attention through the years, this report will briefly describe the matter of non-financial reporting. Because these reports are produced by companies their selves this report will analyse Tesco’s ‘Corporate Responsibility Review’ with help of the ‘UNEP five-stage model’ in order to see which stages this environmental report has reached.
Furthermore we will focus on sustainable production and products of Tesco whereas a deep look into its supply chain is necessary as Tesco’s core operation is not production but rather retailing which means ‘purchase’ and ‘selling’.
In the last point of this report we will gradually discover Tesco’s ‘CSR’ practices in which we mainly focus on how Tesco is taking responsibility towards communities and environment.
CONTENTS
1.0 Introduction 4
2.0 Overview of Tesco’s policies 5
2.1 Non-Financial Report 5
2.1.1 What is a Non-Financial Report? 5
2.1.2 Why should companies produce a non-financial report? 5
2.1.3 Using the 5-Stage model to evaluate Tesco’s ‘Corporate Responsibility Report’ 5
2.2 Sustainable Production and Sustainable Products 7
2.2.1 What is a sustainable product? 7
2.2.2 Is Tesco offering sustainable products? 7
2.3 Corporate Social Responsibility 9
2.3.1 What is CSR? 9
2.3.2 What is Tesco doing to create a healthy and social environment? 9
3.0 Conclusion 11
4.0 Recommendation 12
Green-IT 12
Sustainable Construction 12
References 14
APPENDICES
1.0 Introduction
Tesco is a British, multi-national supermarket chain with huge revenues which was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. It is acting as a public limited company that means it has limited liability. Headquarter of Tesco is in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and its current CEO is Sir Terry Leahy.
In the United Kingdom, stores of Tesco are...