Medline Releases Its 2019 Sustainability Report
7 th August 2019
Medline International B.V. has published its third annual Sustainability Report, covering Medline’s social, environmental and economic activities and impact (People, Planet, Prosperity) in Europe in 2018.
This year’s report not only provides an overview of the company but also showcases Medline’s strong performance, particularly in the following areas:
- Sustaining our sales growth trajectory and finishing the year with good financial results
- Launching a Diversity and Inclusion Statement
- Maintaining our proud tradition of raising awareness of breast cancer
- Working with communities in need through meal-packing events and medical product donations
- Launching our reforestation project (One Container, One Tree)
- Conducting a successful internal Medline Earth Week campaign
- Continuing to engage with our suppliers to promote labour and human rights in our product supply chain
- Implementing our ethics and compliance programme.
The aforementioned report highlights correspond to Medline’s corporate social responsibility (CSR)/sustainability programme whose main focus areas are labour and human rights, environmental initiatives, breast cancer awareness and charitable giving.
In the context of Medline’s European operations, CSR is synonymous with sustainability.
Snippet from the 2019 Sustainability Report
PROMOTING EMPLOYEE DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Our employees have diverse professional and educational backgrounds, and 25 different nationalities were represented in our European workforce in 2018 (employees originating from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa).
Our employees have diverse professional and educational backgrounds, and 25 different nationalities were represented in our European workforce in 2018 (employees originating from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa).
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