SUPPLIER CSR CHARTER
Our company aims to embody values that are essential to the credibility of our business, and we wish to draw your attention to them in this CSR charter. Our values are trust, simplicity, integrity, respect for human rights and fairness.
We believe we need to promote these values, integrating them into our everyday activities and our relationships with all our stakeholders. Our company’s growth depends on our employees’ ability to act in accordance with these values.
This CSR charter guides our policies and promotes compliance with the standards, rules and regulations defined for our workplace.
It enables Marceau Gourmand to assume its responsibilities as an employer, a company and an environmental stakeholder, acting ethically and in line with its values.
It also underlines the importance of respect in our company culture. We require every employee to respect people, the law and our ethical principles.
OUR COMMITMENTS AS AN EMPLOYER
1. Working conditions
Marceau Gourmand endeavours to provide optimal working conditions for all its employees. The company rejects any illegal forms of work or working conditions. Respect for workers and their fundamental rights is of utmost importance to us, as is our compliance with labour law.
• We prohibit forced, compulsory or undeclared labour at our company.
• We also prohibit child labour: we do not hire employees under 15 and do not assign any inappropriate tasks to employees under 18.
• We aim to promote dialogue and understanding between employees, particularly at important moments in their lives, such as marriages, births and leaves of absence.
• We also promote a healthy work-life balance for all employees. The company is mindful of legal working hours. At Marceau Gourmand, working hours are flexible, to enable employees to best manage their professional and private lives.
2. Health and Safety
Marceau Gourmand makes a priority of providing a safe, healthy and respectful work environment. Every employee must behave in a way that does not harm the physical, emotional and social well-being of their colleagues.
• We do everything in our power to keep our workplace safe and respectful of others
• We condemn any form of sexual or moral harassment.
• We comply with health, safety and hygiene regulation.
• We guarantee employees a workplace that does not jeopardize their well-being in any way, in line with our values.
3. Ethics
Marceau Gourmand focuses on respecting and encouraging diversity within the company. The company rejects all forms of discrimination and promotes equal opportunities and fairness throughout employees’ careers.
• We follow transparent recruitment processes, recruiting employees based on the company’s needs and candidates’ professional skills and human qualities.
• We guarantee decent, fair and gender-neutral pay.
• We endeavour to eliminate discrimination throughout employees’ careers, in terms of age, colour, marital status, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion, gender, ethnic origin or social background.
• We do everything possible to help each employee develop their professional skills and achieve their potential.
• We respect and celebrate differences in each employee’s individual values.
• We ensure that each employee acts in the best interest of our company and adopts the company’s values at work.
OUR COMMITMENTS AS A COMPAGNY
1. Legal compliance
Marceau Gourmand attaches particular importance to complying with the laws, standards and directives of the countries in which it operates. The company’s integrity relies on its strict adherence to
the following commitments:
• Upholding human rights
• Complying with quality, hygiene and safety standards
• Obeying national laws;
• Formally banning any form of corruption in the company’s relations with its partners, employees and authorities aimed at obtaining financial bonuses or other significant advantages.
• Respecting global, European and French standards for every product.
• Carefully applying European directives and meeting supplier obligations, particularly in terms of EC labelling.
• Monitoring the chemical substances used in our products, in line with REACH regulation
Furthermore, the company takes care to comply with competition law:
• We follow competition laws, rules and regulations in all the countries in which we operate.
• We do not exchange confidential information, and refuse to engage in any anti-competitive behaviour with other companies, such as fixing prices or sales conditions, sharing
the market or boycotting competitors.
2. Our commitment to suppliers and manufacturers
Marceau Gourmand works with many suppliers and manufacturers and we insist that they uphold appropriate working standards, ethics and values.
Marceau Gourmand cares about manufacturing conditions and monitors them where possible.
• We are extremely vigilant regarding the ban on child, forced or undeclared labour.
• In our purchasing decisions, we favour suppliers and manufacturers that behave in line with the values promoted by our company, based on trust, integrity and fairness.
• We require our suppliers and manufacturers to comply with the applicable legislation in their sector and business environment.
Marceau Gourmand attaches the utmost importance to respecting consumer rights:
• We aim to offer quality products. With this in mind, we use consumer feedback to continually improve product quality.
• We carefully and systematically monitor all the steps leading up to product distribution.
• We act in consumers’ interests by verifying that all our suppliers comply with the applicable standards, and that the products we offer are certified as safe.
• We work only with suppliers that follow a CSR policy.
3. Data protection
Marceau Gourmand guarantees data privacy and security.
• We guarantee the confidentiality of all data on our employees, suppliers, manufacturers and shareholders.
• We pay particular attention to intellectual property, which means not only defending our own rights but also those of the companies we work with.
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
Environmental protection
Marceau Gourmand attaches particular importance to protecting the environment and supports initiatives to increase its environmental performance day to day.
• We regularly conduct merchandising campaigns. To limit our CO2 emissions, we encourage employees to take public transport and reimburse their tickets.
• To demonstrate our commitment to environmental protection, we are taking steps to reduce our consumption of water, energy, waste and paper in our everyday operations.
• We prefer to purchase and distribute eco-friendly products.