Focus Areas
Our Sustainability Framework seeks to ensure proactive compliance with laws, regulations, industry best practices and benchmarks across four broad areas of focus:
(Numbers represent annually published statistics for the most recent fiscal year – 2020/21)
Employee Relations:
- LKR 6,766 million worth of employee benefits
- Direct income generation to 12,500 families
- 58% of wealth distributed among employees
- LKR 5.7 million investment in training and development
- 41% representation of female employees
Socially Inclusive Development:
- LKR 136 million funds channeled for community development
- Of over 60% of employees from the ‘local’ community
- A network of over 10,000 suppliers and service providers
- Over 3,500 suppliers educated on social and environmental sustainability
Environment:
- LKR 55 million total investment on sustainability processes and action plans
- 52% water withdrawn is treated for reuse or safe disposal
- 36% of the total energy consumption and 44% of the direct energy consumption from renewable energy
- > 45,000 MT of residual municipal solid waste kept away from landfills
- Over 80ha of forest cover maintained in its pristine condition
- 37,338 tonnes CO2e emissions reduced and/ or offset
Economic Performance & Governance:
- LKR 47.9 million foreign currency generated to the country
- LKR 1.6 billion taxes paid to the Government
- Pioneering signatories to the UN Global Compact and Women’s Empowerment Principles
- Most awarded company at the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2020
- Consistently ranked among the hall of fame top 20 of LMD’s Most Respected entities
- Platinum ranked in the STING – LMD Corporate Accountability Index since 2010
- Among the top companies in Sri Lanka’s first-ever assessment of transparency in corporate reporting by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL)