Ethics
To incorporate and sustain corporate social responsibility in the Group, the activities are encouraged to draw up codes of conduct founded on the principles of integrity and transparency to establish the individual and collective ground rules for employees’ responsibilities and their relations with internal and external stakeholders.
At end-2010, D’Ieteren Auto drew up the basis of a code of conduct, based on values that all employees are asked to subscribe to on joining the company. The code sets out best practices designed to ensure a high-quality working environment, and to guide relations between members of staff, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders, based on mutual respect and ethics.
For Belron, 2010 was a defining year with the worldwide rollout of its global code of ethics, known as “Our Way of Working”. This has been translated into every group language and launched with a specifically designed awareness session in every Belron business. The majority of Belron employees have been made aware of “Our Way of Working” during 2010 and the target is for every Belron employee to have attended an awareness session by the end of the first quarter of 2011.
