Introduction
At its most fundamental, sustainability at Ecom means ensuring an orderly business environment, where valued relationships and the sharing of information reduces supply chain risks, costs, and inefficiencies. Our sustainability work should lead to better business results through better supply chain relationships, lower risk and lower supply chain costs.
Sustainability strategy at Ecom is about providing services that its clients need:
Serving buyer-clients with differentiated products and solutions – by providing better quality, traceability and certification, and partnering to improve supply chainsfrom farm to customer.
Serving producer-clients to be better, more profitable farmers – by providing training to attain certification (to UTZ Certified and Rainforest Alliance standards, for example) and helping them to trade into higher value markets. Ecom provides growers with access to information—from better farming practices to market data to innovations—so they can produce more, better, and more profitably.
Unconventional partnerships to address challenging issues – to make agriculture sustainable for the long-run means contributing to the viability of producer communities and anticipating issues like climate change, water scarcity, and competition between crops for land. We partner with NGOs, banks and clients to bringtogether different views and complementary skill sets to tackle these challenges.
At Ecom, sustainability is a core business strategy. At Ecom, sustainability is neither charity nor “corporate responsibility” separate from the main business. Rather, sustainability is a core business strategy. Ecom is continuously developing internal capacities and systems to maintain the pace of its innovation and foster collaboration within its networks and across markets.
Contact the Sustainability Unit
Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation Ltd.
Av. Etienne Guillemin 16
P.O. Box 64
CH-1009 Pully
Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 721 7210
Sustainability Overview 2011
