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The RJM 2010 Accountability Report Table of Contents CEOs Open Letter on CSR Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Key Performance Indicators Manufacturing Responsibility Greening our Operations Inspiring our People Supporting our Communities Company Background Report Scope Appendix: Code of Conduct 3 10 11 12 16 19 21 23 24 25 2
CEO’s Open Letter on CSR Reviewing our progress in 2009 on Corporate Social Responsibility One year ago, I started as the new CEO of R.J. McCarthy (“RJM”) and pledged to make our company an industry leader in corporate social responsibility (“CSR”). RJM had always been strong in CSR, but we wanted to go farther. As a company, we decided to get very serious about this new goal – so much so that we renewed our mission to state that our reason for being as an organization is to “create the world's highest quality school uniforms in a socially responsible way”. In the last year, I have travelled across our company speaking to our employees, across Canada speaking to our customers, and across the world speaking to our suppliers, to communicate our passion and focus around this new purpose. During these talks, I made a pledge that my tenure would start with new ideas around CSR, and quickly be followed by concrete actions. We have achieved that promise. The purpose of this letter is to demonstrate to our constituents how seriously we are taking this new mission and how much progress we have made against it in just one year. I'd also like to comment on some of the challenges we are facing and on where we are going “... I made a pledge that my tenure would start with bold new ideas around CSR, and quickly be followed by concrete actions. We have achieved that promise.” John Kelleher, President & CEO Background Director, Board of Directors of Covenant House (Canada’s largest youth homeless shelter) Former President & CEO, one of Canada’s top retailers (Black’s Photography) MBA, Harvard Business School MPA, Harvard School of Government from here. PART I – A Summary of our Progress in the Last Year As a company, we feel very proud of our progress to date. Two of our first actions were to give someone inside the company the role of Head of Social Responsibility and to create a new four part framework that would guide all of our thinking and work on CSR. Our new framework clarified our intentions to make progress in four key areas: (1) Manufacturing responsibly; (2) Greening our operations; (3) Inspiring our people; and (4) Supporting our communities. I would like to lay out the achievements we've had in these four areas during this past year and comment on where we are going from here. We believe that we have already become the leader in our industry on CSR. At the same time, I would absolutely stress that we see everything we've done as a beginning and not an end. We are committed to a long-term outlook on CSR and will work to continually improve and expand how the company is performing on corporate social responsibility. 3
Page 1: A bright new perspective on CSR Acc
Page 5 and 6: 1 Manufacturing Responsibly The ach
Page 7 and 8: 4 Supporting Our Communities Heart
Page 9 and 10: PART III - Where We Are Going From
Page 11 and 12: Key Performance Indicators Issues K
Page 13 and 14: Highlight of Initiatives 1. Develop
Page 15 and 16: Results Focus Key Performance Indic
Page 17 and 18: Why we chose to work with Carbonzer
Page 19 and 20: Greening Our Operations: Challenges
Page 21 and 22: Inspiring Our People: Challenges Ac
Page 23 and 24: Company Background Profile Establis
Page 25 and 26: Appendix: Manufacturers' Code of Co
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