An Empowering Workplace
We recognize that a diverse, inclusive and safe workplace helps to enable greater engagement between colleagues. An engaged workforce strengthens our branding as an employer and attracts diverse talent, which increases our capacity to meet the challenges and opportunities of a complex business environment.
At Vitasoy, we strive to create a work environment that enables job satisfaction and a higher sense of purpose. We are aware that a stable workforce is important for the sustainable development of the Company and the best ways to accomplish this is by promoting equal opportunities in every area.
Core Competency Model - Vitasoy Success Drivers
Our workplace culture is based on our core competency model – Vitasoy Success Drivers (VSD), which cover every aspect of culture excellence, from external facing customer focus to internal collaborations across teams and individual accountability. These behavioral indicators for different job levels have been incorporated into the Company’s Performance Management System (PMS).
Our Workplace Culture Supports Every Culture
We value an inclusive corporate culture that understands the importance of diversity. This is a key reason for us to actively promote collaboration as one of our key success drivers, and incorporate performance indicators on collaboration into our Performance Management System where staff performance is measured and evaluated.
To enhance our employees’ awareness on diversity and inclusion, we have developed various policies to ensure that our labor practices are in line with local or international standards and requirements. Along with our Fair Labor Practices Policy, we are also reviewing management processes to address equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, employee health and safety, ethical business practices and grievance procedure.
Vitasoy North America
- Minority Owned Business
- Management Gender Ratio 60/40 Female to Male
The Company That Keeps on Giving
We are passionate about supporting healthy lifestyles through our product offerings, advocacy and education initiatives, aiming to help the individuals living in the communities where we operate.
Given the nature of our business, we focus our community efforts in providing community support through sponsorship and donations.
COVID-19 Vita Unsweetened Tea Donations
Our Vita Unsweetened Teas were accompanied with the meal kits that Table to Table NYC distributed to elders and vulnerable members of the Asian community in NYC during the onset of COVID-19. Since restaurants and grocery stores were closed due to the pandemic, the meal kits and our Vita Unsweetened Teas were donated to underserved members who needed the support.
Face Masks and Hand Sanitizer Premium Donation
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, there was a shortage of personal protective equipment, such as face cloth masks and hand sanitizers for consumers to purchase. We produced reusable face cloth masks and hand sanitizer premiums during the pandemic to give away as donations, in-store and e-commerce promotions, or for food delivery and in-store employees to wear.
Student Organization Sponsorships
Our Vita Tea was donated to various hospitals and community colleges in the West Coast and handed out to our target beneficiaries.
How We Govern
At Vitasoy, we believe that our sustainability governance structure strengthens our accountability and, by extension, the overall performance of Vitasoy as a responsible company.
The Board holds the overall accountability for the company’s ESG strategies and performance. To drive our ESG agenda with dedicated Board-level oversight, we have set up a Board-level ESG Committee in 2020. Our Group Executive Sustainability Committee became operational in July 2018, reports to the ESG Committee, recommending goals, strategies and initiatives, overseeing their communication and implementation across the Company, and integrating sustainability into day-to-day operations.
To drive accountability, Vitasoy has incorporated sustainability performance as part of the performance criteria for the leadership team and middle management since FY 2017/18.
Vitasoy Sustainability Governance Structure
To learn more about our company shareholdings, governance policies such as our Corporate Governance Policy, Director Nomination Policy, Board Diversity Policy, Whistleblowing Policy and Shareholders Communication Policy as well as our Board and Sub-board Committees structure, please visit the Corporate Governance page on the Vitasoy website and our Annual Report.
ESG Corporate Milestones
- 2020 Vitasoy joins the Top 30 most sustainable companies in the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index
- 2021 Vitasoy improves ranking from 90th to 62nd on the Corporate Knights’ Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World