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EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REPORTING SCOPE & BOUNDARY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
COMPANY PROFILE SUSTAINABILITY & US

GOVERNANCE BRAND
STRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY
GUIDELINES
An actionable roadmap needs to be supplemented by
responsible and experienced governance for it to
achieve its targets. To achieve our goal of being a leading Sustainable
Organisation, it is imperative to align all stakeholders
A robust four-tiered governance structure helps guide and ensure they possess a deeper understanding of
and drive actions across the organisation to ensure that the interconnections within our value chain and its
the targets undertaken in the sustainability roadmap combined impact on the ecosystem. Keeping that in
are achieved. mind, we developed the Brand Sustainability
Guidelines (BSG) which are aligned with the Aditya
1 Management Committee Birla Group values of Integrity, Commitment, Passion,
(headed by the Business Director Apparel & Retail Business)
Seamlessness & Speed, and act as a compass on
various sustainable practices. For ease of
2 Executive Committee
headed by the CEO understanding and implementation, the guidelines
are centred around three broad pillars Product,
3 Review by the Chief Sustainability O cer People and Environment. They feature commitments
& sub-commitments in each category, department-
4 Individual Mission Teams wise roles and responsibilities, and details on how to
one each for the identi ed sustainability map progress on each parameter.

The individual mission teams are led by a Mission Product Stewardship
Leader who has the overall responsibility for achieving
speci c mission targets. The progress of each Further classi ed into brand sustainability and supply
sustainability mission is reviewed during the Executive chain sustainability, the focus is on enhancing
Committee (Excom) Review. The executive committee sustainability attributes of products, reducing
represented by brands and other corporate functions is packaging, vendor code of conduct, supplier audits,
headed by the Chief Executive O cer. Such reviews are green channel partnerships and a responsible chemical
organised on a monthly-basis with speci c and management policy.
focussed discussions on the sustainability performance
of the company. People Stewardship

The Sustainability Council It lays emphasis on external and internal stakeholder
engagement. The focus is on stakeholder mapping,
customer engagement, and sustainability related
One of the key steps undertaken to embed sustainable communication (GRI, BRR, CSR). It includes continual
practices in our business operations, was the formation improvement and update on company s internal
of a sustainability council comprising professionals workplace standards, sustainability related trainings
from diverse disciplines.
and orientation programmes, internal competition on
The council brings together members from various sustainability issues and encouraging employee
functions such as brands, sourcing, human resources, volunteering for CSR projects.
manufacturing, logistics, business excellence, product
development and quality assurance, and retail. They Environment Stewardship
meet once a month to deliberate on key sustainability
initiatives and how they can be e ectively The focus areas include combating climate change
implemented. through reduction of carbon emissions, reduce
With a mandate of future proo ng the organisation, the dependency on freshwater by becoming water neutral
council also keeps itself updated with emerging and ensure that no waste generated within our
sustainability concepts, amendments in legislation, premises reaches the land ll.
sustainability initiatives and programmes undertaken
by global peers.

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