8 2015 AT A GLANCE 850 Millio childre reached i 80 coutries by Colgate s Bright Smiles, Bright Futures oral health educatio program sice 1991 Millio pet adoptios supported by Hill s Pet Nutritio sice 2002 37,900 Employees aroud the world 23 35 Millio people reached i 2015 about the health ad hygiee beefits of hadwashig with soap Millio miutes of healthy activity logged by Colgate employees i Jue 2015 as part of Colgate s Live Better program 55 % of Colgate employees ivited to use employee Health Risk Assessmet Tool sice 2013
For over 200 years, Colgate has bee committed to People. From the early 38,000 employees aroud the world who ru our busiess to the billios of cosumers who use our products, people are at the heart of what we do ad how we do it.
Supportig Colgate People 2015 Awards Highlights I 2015, Forbes amed Colgate oe of the World s Most Reputable Compaies, Most Iovative Compaies ad the No. 1 Best Compay for Work/Life Balace Busiess Isider 50 Best Compaies to Work for i America World s Most Ethical Compaies by Ethisphere Magazie Corporate Resposibility Magazie s 100 Best Corporate Citizes Thousads of people aroud the world work together to make Colgate successful. I tur, the Compay is committed to the success of our people throughout their careers. Through traiig ad career developmet programs, Colgate helps employees stay egaged, rewarded ad focused o deliverig products ad services that meet or exceed our cosumers expectatios. To support the developmet of our people ad esure job satisfactio, we proudly offer global career opportuities, access to world-class traiig ad educatio programs ad cotiuous coachig ad feedback. Strivig to Be a Employer of Choice We are committed to attractig, developig ad retaiig taleted ad dedicated people by: Maitaiig a culture based o our core values of Carig, Global Teamwork ad Cotiuous Improvemet Committig to our sustaiability strategy focused o People, Performace ad Plaet Providig stimulatig careers with traiig, educatio ad growth opportuities Creatig a excitig ad motivatig work eviromet Esurig that people feel recogized ad rewarded Promotig fudametal values ad ogoig commuicatio Providig corerstoe traiig programs: Valuig Colgate People, Ethics ad Compliace ad Leadig with Respect Recruitig ad retaiig people of all backgrouds i our global workforce Promotig healthier lives for our employees Ecouragig a healthy balace betwee work ad persoal resposibilities
Professioal Developmet Colgate is committed to helpig every Colgate perso reach his or her maximum potetial. We have a strog, global leadership developmet foudatio to build upo ad are expadig the reach of our curret programs to meet the evolvig leadership challeges that we face. We keep pace with the rate of chage i the marketplace ad provide a sustaiable competitive advatage for Colgate through the developmet ad maiteace of a robust, idustry leadig talet pipelie of future Colgate leaders. We are cotiuously buildig a learig ad developmet culture that drives employee egagemet ad supports delivery of our commitmets to oe aother, the professios we serve, our cosumers, our customers ad our shareholders. Colgate s traiig programs provide opportuities for Colgate people to keep curret i their assigmets ad to gai valuable ew skills. I 2015, Colgate people completed over 356,000 total hours of traiig i our global curriculum as well as additioal hours of locally required safety, evirometal ad other regulatory traiig. Developig Leaders We believe that Colgate people at all levels ad fuctios eed to have a clear uderstadig of what it takes to demostrate Persoal Leadership. Persoal Leadership is about who oe is as a idividual, what oe cotributes to the Compay s results ad how oe achieves those results ad treats others. It is about beig the best Colgate perso oe ca be. Demostratig Colgate s Leadership Essetials is a importat aspect of Persoal Leadership. Colgate s Leadership Essetials are: Ispirig Leadership i Everyoe Actig Courageously Providig a Strategic Perspective Buildig a Collaborative Eviromet Deliverig Outstadig Results Key leadership courses at Colgate iclude Valuig Colgate People, Coachig Essetials, Fudametals of Colgate Leadership ad Drivig Team Effectiveess i the Orgaizatio. Several programs additioally provide opportuities for exceptioal Colgate talet to approach ew ad excitig challeges ad hoe their skills. Global Leadership 2030 is a 12-moth iovative executive educatio ad developmet experiece coducted by a cosortium of the Tuck School of Busiess at Dartmouth College ad a select umber of global compaies. The goal is to build global competitiveess withi idustries ad orgaizatios ad to develop persoal leadership skills amog program participats. Developed i partership with the Staford Graduate School of Busiess, the Colgate Leadership Program @ Staford combies leadig academic thikig ad practical advice with learigs from Colgate s 2014 Geeral Maagers Forum, which was held i partership with Staford ad coveyed practical lessos to sharpe leadership capabilities ad stregthe etworks ad parterships. The Colgate Leadership Challege for early-icareer taleted employees provides participats with exposure ad iteractio with seior maagemet, a greater uderstadig ad coectio to the global orgaizatio, persoal leadership skills traiig ad a opportuity to work o a importat strategic issue for the Compay. Traiig Highlights We are committed to providig marketers with the tools ecessary to build digital marketig capabilities i a rapidly-evolvig marketplace. As part of this commitmet, we are implemetig Essetials of Digital Marketig i 2016, a olie digital traiig that provides custom-learig paths based o level of proficiecy. The platform has a fresh, egagig iterface with iteractive lessos developed by idustry-leadig practitioers. The traiig spas a variety of topics related to digital marketig ad lessos evolve to keep pace with idustry treds. For our Customer Developmet Orgaizatio that egages with our retail parters, Core Sellig Skills is a two-ad-a-half-day program that explais the Colgate Core Sellig Process ad teaches the strategic sellig skills required to determie the eeds ad priorities of each ad every uique customer, regardless of retail eviromet, i order to execute a successful sales call.
Colgate s Global Supply Chai Orgaizatio has leveraged Acceture Academy for early a decade to provide foudatioal fuctioal learig cotet. The Acceture Academy cotais over 1,200 courses, aliged across busiess, ad specialty ad fuctioal skills, developed by leadig academic ad idustry experts. Colgate has a global licese for SCM World, makig SCM World s cotet ad kowledge base available to all Colgate people. Startig i 2016, Colgate has also egaged SCM World to facilitate two ew leadership developmet programs that will combie formal ad experietial learig based o the latest strategic thikig, treds, techology developmets ad best practices. The C Level program is targeted to curret seior supply chai leaders while the Supply Chai Core Talet Developmet Program is aimed at ext level leaders. These programs will help us develop a visio for The Future of Work i Colgate s Supply Chai. Colgate Leadership Challege Participats i the Colgate Leadership Challege have a opportuity to work o a importat strategic issue for the Compay, such as sustaiability. I additio to traiig ad leadership developmet programs, Colgate has a structured Idividual Developmet Plaig (IDP) process for Colgate people to reflect upo their ow career aspiratios. I most cases, Colgate people participate i this process aually to create a pla betwee the employee ad the maager for developmet actios based upo their stregths, opportuities for improvemet ad goals. The IDP process helps facilitate a two-way discussio o log-term career developmet opportuities as well. Colgate also has a compay-wide successio plaig process that focuses o idetifyig key orgaizatioal talet eeds ad provides maagemet with a opportuity to discuss ad pla employee developmet ad career progressio. Durig this process, short-term assigmet, log-term assigmet ad special project opportuities are idetified that allow our talet to broade their leadership ad fuctioal competecies.
Health ad Welless Supportig Colgate people icludes a importat commitmet to supportig the health ad welless of our employees aroud the world. Through our Live Better programs, we promote physical, emotioal ad fiacial welless for Colgate people ad their families. Our goal is to help our people Live Better every day by providig the resources to help them make healthy choices at work ad at home ad by providig the support they eed to live a more balaced, healthy life. Colgate s Live Better programs focus o the areas of prevetio ad awareess, healthy lifestyles, resiliece ad stress ad orgaizatioal support. Our Live Better focus areas are grouded i our 2020 Sustaiability Strategy commitmets to cotiuously improve employee health ad reduce health risks by 15 percet; to ecourage healthier livig for Colgate people ad their families; to esure a safe ad healthy work eviromet with a goal of zero lost-time icidets; ad to provide educatio ad tools to Colgate people to elevate fiacial awareess ad plaig. Buildig o the groudwork laid i our 2015 Sustaiability Strategy, our 2020 goals will help us to reach more Colgate people with support for the health ad welless issues that matter the most. We are egagig our sites aroud the world i the followig activities: Colgate s Live Better Focus Areas Prevetio ad Awareess Healthy Lifestyles Resiliece ad Stress Orgaizatioal Support Health Risk Assessmets Physical Activity Employee Assistace Programs Employee Egagemet Immuizatios Nutritio Educatio Fiacial Welless Safety Culture HIV/AIDS Policy Weight Maagemet Resiliecy Programs Leadership Egagemet Health Screeigs Healthy Cafeteria Optios Work/Life Services Commuity Parterships Prevetive Oral Care Smokig Cessatio
Health Risk Assessmets Whe aoymously aggregatig HRA data, we foud that the highest risk factors for Colgate people are: 4 Nutritio 4 Physical Activity 4 Stress 4 Body Weight Prevetio ad Awareess Sice 2013, Colgate has offered over 55 percet of our employees access to a Health Risk Assessmet (HRA) tool to help them self-evaluate health status, uderstad risks ad provide cofidetial feedback to motivate behavior chage. The assessmet is a powerful, olie tool that icludes questios o biometric measures such as blood pressure ad cholesterol. Colgate also aggregates this data aoymously to focus our Live Better programs o the highest risk factors for Colgate people such as utritio, physical activity, stress ad body weight. Accordig to the World Health Orgaizatio, physical iactivity ad uhealthy diets are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes ad cacer. We cotiue to expad the program with a goal to reach all coutries with 100 or more employees by 2020. I 2015, we expaded access to 15 ew coutries. We are also workig to icrease participatio rates i the coutries that curretly offer the program. We are also makig plas to esure that all Colgate people are able to obtai the immuizatios they eed i order to stay healthy. Additioally, we are developig a approach to address ay gaps i detal care access globally ad esure cotiued oral health awareess for our people. Helpig Colgate People Assess Health Risks Colgate has offered over 55 percet of our employees across 34 coutries access to a Health Risk Assessmet tool sice 2013, with a goal to reach all coutries with 100 or more employees by 2020.
Healthy Lifestyles Colgate has may programs aroud the world to support healthy lifestyles. Programs vary by geography but iclude those to support physical activity, utritio educatio, weight maagemet ad smokig cessatio as well as to provide healthy cafeteria optios. A key Live Better program is the aual Healthy Activity Challege, which ecourages employees to track ad log at least 500 miutes of healthy activity i oe moth, i lie with medical experts recommedatios for miimum physical activity to sustai good health. Durig the moth, we sposor activities from yoga classes to pig pog touramets for Colgate people. May locatios hold health ad welless evets to educate ad motivate employees o the topics of utritio, weight loss ad a healthy body ad mid. I 2015, over 21,000 employees reached their goal, ad Colgate people logged over 23 millio miutes. Colgate s Asia regio had the highest participatio rate i 2015 at 82 percet. Our Lati America regio had the highest rate of employees reach their 500 miute goal at 70 percet. Over the past five years, Colgate people have accumulated over 73 millio miutes of healthy activity. Healthy Activity Challege Participatio Total Miutes Employees Who Reached 500 Miutes Goal 9,100,000 2011 15,800 9,400,000 2012 14,300 12,900,000 2013 20,100 18,700,000 2014 19,700 23,000,000 2015 21,000 Vietam
Start your day with a fresh piece of fruit! Colgate is workig to ecourage healthy food choices ad make more healthy optios available. Smokig Cessatio i Brazil Through campaigs ad resources i São Paolo, Brazil, Colgate helped reduce the umber of employees who smoke from 15% i 2010 to 5% i 2015. I 2015, Forbes amed Colgate the No.1 Best Compay for Work Life Balace. Colgate locatios ofte iclude utritio educatio ad resources i their Live Better programs ad as part of the Healthy Activity Challege, with evets such as healthy cookig demostratios, utritio workshops, educatioal iformatio, labelig of healthy optios ad servig of healthy breakfasts ad luches. A Nutritio Toolkit is also available to Colgate people o the Compay s itraet site. Movig forward, we will also work with our global facilities service providers for Colgate cafeterias to esure healthy optios are provided ad commuicated to employees. A more recet area of focus for Live Better at Colgate is smokig cessatio. Colgate prohibits smokig withi all Compay buildigs, icludig all maufacturig facilities, warehouses, techology ceters ad office buildigs. A ext step is to expad programs to help our employees quit smokig. Curretly, ie Colgate sites offer smokig cessatio support. A recet program i Brazil has bee particularly successful. With ati-smokig campaigs, medical educatio, couselig optios ad partially subsidized smokig cessatio medicatio, the smokig populatio of the São Paolo site wet from 15 percet i 2010 to 5 percet i 2015. Resiliece ad Stress Colgate works to provide opportuities for employees to obtai a balace betwee work ad life. Programs vary by geography but iclude flexible work arragemets, adoptio beefits, tuitio beefits ad back-up child care optios. Live Better evets iclude semiars o resiliece ad stress maagemet. Colgate is also committed to esurig the fiacial well-beig of our employees. We are rollig out fiacial educatio materials ad plaig tools i 20 select subsidiaries. I the U.S., Colgate people have access to fiacial plaig workshops, web resources ad persoal fiacial plaig support from Erst & Youg, LLP at o cost.
Occupatioal Health ad Safety The health ad safety of our employees ad the commuities i which we operate is paramout i all we do; our goal is zero icidets. Colgate people aroud the world are committed to beig Colgate Careful by maitaiig a robust safety culture ad healthy ad safe workig coditios. Focus Areas of Colgate s Occupatioal Health ad Safety Stadards Occupatioal Health Chemicals Noise/Physical Hazards Hierarchy of Cotrols/Hazard Commuicatio Ergoomics Laboratories Occupatioal Medical Stadards Safety Ijury ad Illess Maagemet Equipmet ad Operatioal Hazards Materials Hadlig ad Storage Temporary Labor, Cotractors, ad Facilities Process Safety Fire ad Loss Prevetio Colgate s global occupatioal health ad safety program is grouded i our Evirometal, Occupatioal Health ad Safety (EOHS) stadards. While we do ot participate i the OHSAS 18001 certificatio system, our maagemet system ad techical stadards expectatios are well-aliged with that system. Colgate sites are expected to self-assess coformace with our stadards at eightee-moth itervals. Corporate audits are coducted every three to five years, a closure progress is reported quarterly ad verificatio audits are coducted to provide closure assurace. Third-party idustrial hygiee firms also review our operatios aually to esure occupatioal health exposures are well cotrolled. Ay idetified exposures are maaged usig the hierarchy of cotrols ad closure progress is reported quarterly. Closure of previously idetified exposures is verified by the third-party idustrial hygiee provider. Colgate also provides umerous safety traiig programs as a importat part of our safety maagemet strategy. We offer 150 e-learig courses available i as may as eight laguages. Courses cover a rage of topics such as EOHS icidet maagemet, hearig coservatio, ergoomics i the workplace, cofied space etry, fire safety emergecy, safe work practices ad idustrial hygiee. We also coduct evacuatio drills across our sites esurig we are prepared i the evet of uforesee circumstaces.
Presidet s Safety Awards Global Safety Statistics The Presidet s Safety Award Program recogizes Colgate sites as they achieve specific milestoes of time i years ad/or hours without a Lost Workday Ijury or Illess. I 2015, 68% of our maufacturig facilities received oe or more awards. per 200,000 work hours 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 1998 1999 2000 2001 Total Recordable Rate 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Lost Workday Case Rate 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 I 2015, our safety results were ot statistically differet from prior years. However, there were two o-site fatalities of o-colgate employees. The first was a supplier employee fatality that occurred durig the course of uloadig a tractor trailer at a factory. The secod icidet was a cotractor fatality, which occurred durig the course of pipe fittig at a plat costructio site. I the spirit of cotiuous improvemet, each icidet has bee reviewed, ad we are creatig actio plas to stregthe hazard mitigatio strategies. 2015 Safety Highlights Electrical Safety As part of our safety risk maagemet pla, Electrical Safety has bee idetified as oe of our highest risks to life safety. To address this risk, Colgate cotracted with Jacobs Egieerig to assess the safety of our power distributio systems at our operatios worldwide. Assessed sites have developed actio plas to maage risk ad are takig immediate corrective actio to address highest risk exposures. We are also icorporatig the learigs from these assessmets ito the update of our global Electrical Safe Practices Stadard. Workplace Violece Recogizig the recet tragedies i workplaces, schools ad public locatios i the U.S., we have developed a Workplace Violece Prevetio Policy to esure we maitai a safe ad respectful work eviromet with appropriate resources ad procedures i place to effectively respod to ad mitigate ay potetial icidets. A traiig program was also developed to help Colgate people idetify, report ad respod to workplace violece should it occur. I 2016, all U.S. based employees are required to participate i this traiig. Occupatioal Health We cotiue Colgate s log-stadig commitmet to reduce occupatioal health exposure to chemicals, oise, physical hazards, dust ad ergoomics risk i the maufacturig process. We parter with third-party idustrial hygieists to assess our exposure levels ad follow the hierarchy of cotrols to reduce exposure. Each year, we are reducig the umber of Colgate people who are required to wear respiratory ad hearig protectio.
Risk-Based Maagemet We have cotiued to sharpe our focus o risk-based safety with a goal to elimiate fatalities ad serious icidets. This approach ivolves a assessmet of the severity of a evet as well as the degree of cotrol over the outcome. Begiig i 2015, a aual risk assessmet is ow required for all sites as part of Colgate s Maagemet System Stadard. Yard Safety Recogizig the Life Safety risk associated with movemet of trucks, cars ad people i factory ad warehouse yards, Colgate has formalized our expectatios via a ew Yard Safety Stadard that icludes expectatios for pedestria walkways, appropriate lightig, clear traffic paths ad safe procedures for loadig ad uloadig. A traiig module has also bee lauched to support implemetatio. Occupatioal Medicie Ergoomics I 2015, Colgate rolled out a ew global program to reduce ergoomics risk. Maufacturig sites ad techology ceters are expected to achieve 100% completio of the Ergo Top 5 actios over a two-year period: 1) Complete ergoomic risk assessmets of job tasks 2) Reduce or elimiate ergoomic hazards associated with maual bag dumpig statios 3) Reduce or elimiate ergoomic hazards associated with maual palletizig 4) Implemet appropriate cotrol strategies for high-risk ergoomic tasks 5) Complete aual ergoomics traiig We are makig progress. As we closed 2015, our completio rate was 56 percet. I 2016, Colgate partered with Iteratioal SOS to lauch a Stadard for Health Icidet Plas at our sites, which icludes guidace o icidet/illess maagemet, pademic preparedess ad employee ad commuity commuicatios. The guidace idetifies actios for our sites to esure the safe ad effective maagemet ad commuicatio of the occurrece of 13 diseases i the workplace ad commuity, icludig Cholera, Hepatitis, Iflueza (seasoal), Legioella, Measles, Meigitis, MRSA, Mumps, Norovirus/Pertussis, SARS, Tuberculosis, Varicella, Ebola ad Pademic Iflueza. For each disease, we have developed a detailed protocol for maagemet of a icidet or illess, referece ad backgroud materials, commuicatio materials ad cleaig guidelies.
Cathy Colgate, our global safety champio helps commuicate our Miimum Safe Behaviors ad other safety programs to Colgate people. BE COLGATE CAREFUL MINIMUM SAFE BEHAVIORS Protect Yourself Agaist a Fall Whe Workig at Heights Obtai a Permit Before Eterig a Cofied Space Obtai a Permit Before Performig Hot Work Obtai a Permit Before Breakig a Lie Machie Guards Should Not Be Disabled or Bypassed No Distractios While Drivig or Operatig Machiery No Uauthorized Discharges to the Eviromet No Horseplay or Fightig No Disablig or Bypassig Machie Guards No Distractios While Drivig or Operatig Machiery No Uauthorized Discharges to the Eviromet No Drugs or Alcohol Buckle Up for Safety No Horseplay or Fightig No Smokig Use Proper Persoal Protective Equipmet No Drugs ad Alcohol Buckle Up for Safety Verify Equipmet Is De-eergized or Isolated Before Begiig Work Lock It Out No Smokig
Each March, Colgate holds a Compay-wide Safety Week, sharig best practices ad refreshig our focus o health ad safety. This week remais a corerstoe of our safety culture ad provides a opportuity to focus o fudametals. Several Safety Week evets also iclude Colgate families i fu ad educatioal activities. Colgate s 2015 Safety Week themes were electrical safety, yard safety ad risk-based safety maagemet, which are importat for Colgate people at all of our facilities. March 2016 Safety Week themes were fork truck safety, workig at elevated sites ad lockout/tagout. 2015 Safety Week Highlights I Auragabad, Idia, employees opeed Safety Week with a pledge to work safely, took a safety quiz ad completed traiig o Colgate s Miimum Safe Behaviors ad electrical safety. I additio to traiig, quizzes ad activities, the Swidica, Polad factory held a electrical safety poster cotest for childre of employees. I Haliow, Polad, employees also atteded a first aid workshop. The Hill s Pet Nutritio plat i Emporia, Kasas, kicked off Safety Week with a celebratio of six years without a lost-time accidet. I additio to workshops o Colgate s Miimum Safe Behaviors, yard safety ad forklift safety, a Spot the Hazard cotest tested employee kowledge of hazards. I Argetia, the Sa Luis plat practiced proper fire extiguishig ad reviewed electrical safety, yard safety ad idustrial hygiee. Colgate s Bagpakog, Thailad plat opeed their Safety Week activities with a celebratio of three millio hours without a lost workday ad a traditioal Thai dacig show to commemorate the achievemet. Employees also played a game to test their electrical safety kowledge ad atteded a electrical ad yard safety exhibitio. Colgate s plat i Guatemala opeed their week with a presetatio about the importace of electrical safety from a local Olympia who had bee ijured i a electrical accidet. I aother egagig presetatio, a local scietist demostrated how electricity works, how to use it safely ad why it ca be dagerous. Colgate people aroud the world were able to share i the safety message a video about Colgate Guatemala s safety activities was awarded the Most Popular Video award for 2015 amog all videos o the Compay s iteral itraet website.
Colgate s HIV/AIDS Policy Statemet Helps limit the impact of HIV/AIDS i the workplace ad persoal lives of Colgate people ad their families Helps create a eviromet that is coducive to opeess, disclosure ad acceptace amog all employees Esures o-discrimiatio Idetifies ad protects idividual rights ad outlies the resposibilities of Colgate people related to HIV/AIDS Promotes access to treatmet Details awareess ad prevetive traiig programs to reduce the possibility of cotractig HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Commitmet Colgate recogizes the cotiuig seriousess of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic ad its impact o the workplace ad society. Colgate s global HIV/AIDS strategy ad policy focus o o-discrimiatio ad cofidetiality, prevetio, access to treatmet, parterships with third parties ad proactive orgaizatioal support. Colgate holds World AIDS Day programs aroud the world each December ad provides ogoig opportuities for cofidetial testig ad awareess educatio especially i Colgate regios with high icidece rates of HIV/AIDS. Through our programs aroud the world, we are workig to limit the impact of HIV/AIDS ad maitaiig a eviromet at Colgate that is coducive to opeess ad acceptace. For example, Colgate s Lati America Divisio coducts iteral HIV/AIDS awareess campaigs i each of the Divisio s subsidiaries. I Cetral America, Colgate educates employees ad their families through traiig ad awareess campaigs. I South Africa, Colgate holds a AIDS Week i early December with evets such as a cadle-lightig commemoratio, a family day with employees ad their families ad free cofidetial testig. Colgate Headquarters i New York City recogizes World AIDS Day by displayig a sectio of the AIDS Memorial Quilt ad by ivitig a guest speaker. Some programs ivolve the commuity. Uder the Positive Step program i Idia, together with employees, Colgate supports a group of childre livig with HIV/AIDS by providig special utritio ad sposorig their school fees. Childre who have goe through the program show improvemet i their overall well-beig, morale ad academic performace. Carig I Brazil I Brazil, Colgate parters with CENAIDS (Natioal Busiess Coucil o HIV/AIDS) ad participates i ogoig discussios with a group of compaies ad busiesses to develop or update strategies ad HIV/AIDS campaigs. For example, together Colgate, CENAIDS, local media groups ad celebrities held a awareess campaig for both employees ad the commuity with the theme of AIDS Lack of Iformatio Has a Cure. At Colgate, this icluded presetatios, posters ad traiig sessios. Colgate also provides also provides educatioal programs for Colgate people throughout the year durig holidays such as Carival, Iteratioal Wome s Day, Mother s Day, Father s Day, Valetie s Day ad World AIDS Day.
Diversity ad Iclusio Colgate s objective is to foster a iclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the global marketplace. Such a eviromet provides all Colgate people with the opportuity to make uique cotributios to our busiess success. Colgate is committed to providig employmet, traiig, compesatio, promotioal opportuities ad all other terms ad coditios of employmet without regard to race, color, religio, age, geder, sexual orietatio, geder idetity, atioal origi, disability, vetera status or ay other basis protected by law. Colgate s Diversity ad Iclusio Strategy cosists of six key compoets: Objective Settig & Review Talet Maagemet Diversity Recruitig People Developmet & Traiig Diversity ad Iclusio Leadership Coucils Compliace Colgate s traiig program Valuig Colgate People is taught i every Colgate subsidiary globally. Colgate also parters with orgaizatios such as the Coferece Board, Diversity Best Practices, the Natioal Associatio for Female Executives (NAFE), Workig Mother Media, DiversityIc, LatiaStyle ad Catalyst to develop a effective ad supportive work eviromet. Additioally, a critical piece of our diversity strategy is to esure that our talet maagemet process icorporates the professioal developmet of wome ad miorities. To help foster a atmosphere of iclusiveess, Colgate supports etwork ad affiity groups represetig may differet perspectives ad ways of life. Each group cotributes to Colgate s iclusive work eviromet by developig ad implemetig activities ad programs to promote work ad commuity ivolvemet as well as cultural awareess. A Selectio of Colgate Network Groups Asia Actio Network Black Actio Committee Colgate Wome s Network Colgate LGBT ad Allies Colgate Parets Network Hill s Diversity Coucil Hill s Wome Empowermet Network Hispaic Actio Network New Employee Orgaizatio Colgate Abilities Network 2015 Workig Mother 100 Best Compaies DiversityIc Top 50 Compaies for Diversity 2015 Diversity at Colgate 37 % wome i global workforce 35 % wome i maagemet positios (global) 39% wome i maagemet positios (U.S.) 32% miorities i U.S. workforce 34% of all U.S. maagers are miorities 27% wome o Board of Directors 27% miorities o Board of Directors
I 2015, the Colgate Abilities Network (CAN) was itroduced durig Disability Awareess Moth. The missio of the etwork is to: Recruit, retai, egage, develop ad provide a equal opportuity for success at work for idividuals with disabilities Be a resource for iteral busiess parters i the developmet of products, packagig, techologies, policies ad processes to support Colgate s strategic iitiatives Have a positive impact o the culture ad commuity both withi ad outside of Colgate CAN ehaces Colgate s culture of iclusio, provides a opportuity for professioal developmet, is a cross fuctioal resource ad promotes physical ad virtual accessibility. Therefore, CAN also cotributes to creatig more efficiet ad effective busiess processes. Equal Pay Colgate complies with all applicable laws ad regulatios related to fair pay practices. It is our policy to select, place ad pay all Colgate people o the basis of qualificatios for the work to be performed ad without discrimiatio. Colgate also coducts remueratio studies periodically o a local basis to esure aligmet with our Code of Coduct, Compay polices ad the law. Supplier Diversity Our Supplier Diversity team i the U.S. drives icreased ad expaded busiess relatioships with miorityowed ad wome-owed busiesses, developig mutually beeficial supply relatioships. Colgate works with selected diverse suppliers to build their busiess capabilities ad to improve their ability to respod to requests for proposals ad their uderstadig of the busiess requiremets of corporate customers i order to support their potetial for busiess growth. Colgate participates i a leadership role i the New York/New Jersey Miority Supplier Developmet Coucil ad as a member of the Natioal Miority Supplier Developmet Coucil, the Wome s Busiess Eterprise Natioal Coucil ad the City of New York Corporate Alliace program i metorig wome-owed ad diverseowed suppliers. Oe of our key priorities has bee the executio of Supplier Days, whe we ivite suppliers to Colgate for a exchage of iformatio o capabilities ad busiess opportuities. Colgate participated i a pael o measuremet ad metrics at a Sustaiability Summit held by the New York/ New Jersey Miority Supplier Developmet Coucil.
Busiess Itegrity Colgate is committed to doig busiess with itegrity ad respect for all people ad for the world aroud us. With goverace ad ethics priciples embedded ito Compay culture as well as stadards supportig the well-beig of all Colgate people, Colgate esures its busiess success goes had-i-had with busiess itegrity. Code of Coduct ad Global Busiess Practices Guidelies Sice 1987, our Code of Coduct has served as a guide for our daily busiess iteractios, reflectig our corporate values ad our stadard for ethical behavior. Oe hudred percet of salaried ad clerical Colgate people participate i aual traiig ad certificatio o the Code of Coduct. Hourly employees complete this traiig ad certificatio process every other year. Our audit firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, audits a cross-sectio of these certificatios. Colgate s Global Busiess Practices Guidelies provide further iformatio to our employees o key topics i our Code of Coduct. The Guidelies offer clear, practical guidace ad illustrate how the values ad priciples outlied i the Code of Coduct apply to particular busiess situatios. The Colgate EthicsLie provides a meas for employees ad exteral parties to ask questios, obtai guidace or report ay suspected violatios of the Code of Coduct. We work to create a workplace free of iappropriate or ulawful behavior i which people are ecouraged to share their cocers with the Compay without fear of retaliatio. Cosequetly, at Colgate o adverse actio will be take agaist ay employee, former employee, aget or third party for complaiig about, reportig, participatig i or assistig i the ivestigatio of a suspected violatio of the Compay s Code of Coduct, Compay policy or applicable law uless the allegatio made or iformatio provided is foud to be itetioally false or was ot made i good faith. Colgate ivestigates all potetial Code of Coduct violatios ad esures that the appropriate actios are take. I 2015, we received approximately 292 cotacts through the EthicsLie, coverig a wide variety of questios ad topics. We categorize Code of Coduct ivestigatios ito the followig categories: geeral work eviromet, discrimiatio, harassmet, retaliatio, accoutig-related, fiacial-related, coflict of iterest, regulatory ad legal ad miscellaeous other issues. I each istace of a potetial violatio of the Compay s Code of Coduct i 2015, the matter was thoroughly ivestigated ad, whe ecessary, appropriate remedial actio, from formal coachig up to termiatio, was take. No Political Cotributios Colgate has a log-stadig policy agaist makig cotributios to political parties or cadidates, which is set forth i our Code of Coduct ad Global Busiess Practices Guidelies. These policies prohibit cotributios to ay politi cal party or cadidate whether federal, state or local. We also prohibit U.S. trade associatios from usig ay portio of Colgate dues for political cotributios, ad we coduct a aual remider ad certificatio process to esure trade associatio awareess ad compliace. Ati-Bribery Colgate has a strict policy prohibitig bribery of govermetal officials ad private commercial parties aywhere we do busiess. This policy is outlied i the Code of Coduct ad Global Busiess Practices Guidelies. Colgate also madates that the third parties with whom we work comply with our ati-bribery policy, which is icluded i our Third Party Code of Coduct ad further commuicated to third parties through our global Due Diligece Process. Traiig Colgate s Ethical Leadership Traiig program uses a mixture of classroom ad olie traiig ad covers umerous priority ethical topics, icludig Ati- Bribery ad Competitio Law as well as the Code of Coduct certificatio refereced above. The Code traiig icludes up to six topic areas every year, ad the scearios are updated o a aual basis. These courses have ru cotiuously for over seve years. Traiig is madatory ad is liked to compesatio for certai employee populatios.
Privacy ad Data Protectio Colgate respects the privacy of its employees, cosumers, customers, suppliers ad other third parties with whom we have a busiess relatioship, ad therefore, we hadle persoal data resposibly ad i accordace with all applicable data privacy ad data protectio laws. With respect to all persoal data i its possessio, it is Colgate s policy to: Oly collect, process, use ad retai persoal data for the reaso it was provided to us, uless we have obtaied coset for other uses, ad as ecessary for our recordkeepig purposes; Take all reasoable steps to safeguard persoal data to prevet uauthorized disclosure or use; Not share persoal data with third parties other tha service providers of ours who assist us i maagig our busiess ad the, oly if that party has agreed to comply with our privacy stadards ad all applicable privacy laws; ad Comply with all applicable privacy laws. This policy is outlied i Colgate s Code of Coduct ad Busiess Practices Guidelies. Social Resposibility Huma Rights Colgate has a log-stadig commitmet to respectig huma rights ad labor rights worldwide ad supports the Uited Natios Uiversal Declaratio of Huma Rights. Colgate practices ad seeks to work with busiess parters who promote the followig stadards: equal opportuity for employees at all levels; a safe ad healthy workplace protectig huma health ad the eviromet; providig employees the opportuity to improve their skills ad capabilities; respectig employees lawful freedom of associatio; ad workig with the govermets ad commuities i which we do busiess to improve the educatioal, cultural, ecoomic ad social well-beig i those commuities. Colgate maages labor ad ethical coformace through a third-party Ethical Compliace Audit Program for Colgate maufacturig facilities, usig the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) protocol. The audit protocol ivestigates criteria coverig freedom of associatio, child labor, hazards, health ad safety, wages ad beefits, workig hours, discrimiatio as well as evirometal ad busiess ethics matters. A corrective actio pla is i place to remedy ay potetial areas of cocer. Resposible Sourcig Third Party Code of Coduct Colgate people are committed to the highest stadards of itegrity ad full coformace to the Compay s Code of Coduct. It is our goal to esure that our relatioships with our suppliers ad busiess parters reflect ad support the same high ethical stadards. Colgate s Third Party Code of Coduct sets the Compay s expectatios for suppliers ad busiess parters i a umber of critical areas, icludig labor practices ad uiversal huma rights, protectig the eviromet, health ad safety ad ethical dealigs. The Code is provided to suppliers ad busiess parters, ad Colgate s cotracts ad purchase orders typically require suppliers to abide by the Code s stadards (or suppliers comparable code stadards), icludig applicable labor ad equal employmet laws as well as Evirometal, Occupatioal Health ad Safety regulatios, ad to the Foreig Corrupt Practices Act ad Ati-Bribery Policy. Assessig ad Maagig Supplier Risk As a multiatioal compay with a global supply chai, adverse actios ad evets i our supply chai could affect Colgate s reputatio as a resposible compay. To maage this risk, Colgate has a formal process to idetify ad maage social, ethical ad evirometal risks i our supply chai ad with other busiess parters. Colgate s Supplier Resposible Sourcig
Assessmet Program requires selected suppliers ad cotract maufacturers to complete a self-assessmet focused o labor practices, health ad safety, evirometal maagemet ad busiess itegrity. The selectio process for suppliers i this program icludes factors icludig geographic risk (usig the Verisk Maplecroft Risk Idexes alog with Colgate s i-coutry kowledge) as well as criticality to our operatios ad material type. As a member of the Supplier Ethical Data Exchage, or Sedex, Colgate uses the audit protocol to further assess suppliers compliace with laws coverig freedom of associatio, child labor, hazards, health ad safety, wages ad beefits, workig hours ad discrimiatio as well as evirometal ad busiess ethics matters. Whe suppliers are assessed as high risk, we perform third-party audits of their facilities. If ay areas of ocompliace are detected, we work with the supplier to esure these cocers are promptly remedied ad the closure of all such ocompliaces is idepedetly verified. Typical ocompliaces relate to health ad safety, workig hours ad maagemet systems. This assessmet program is part of our supplier qualificatio process. Sice the program s iceptio i 2012, Colgate has assessed more tha 73 percet of our suppliers i high-risk geographies. Colgate is also a member of AIM-PROGRESS, a global idustry forum to promote resposible sourcig practices ad sustaiable productio systems. Through these programs, suppliers share assessmet ad audit data with other maufacturig compaies that ofte share the same suppliers, eablig us to gai iformatio more efficietly ad relievig the burde of audit fatigue o suppliers. Through the Supplier Resposible Sourcig Assessmet program, Colgate has drive improved workig coditios for more tha 26,000 employees across our exteral supply chai. We have also participated i capacity buildig sessios through the AIM-PROGRESS forum that are desiged to improve suppliers social ad evirometal performace. The sessios explai the resposible sourcig assessmet process ad prepare suppliers for assessmets ad audits of their facilities. We have participated i evets i Lati America ad North America. I additio, Colgate coducts similar supplier resposible sourcig traiig evets for our suppliers. Forced Labor I lie with the Cosumer Goods Forum s (CGF s) recetly aouced Social Resolutio o Forced Labor, Colgate jois CGF i ackowledgig the broad societal problem of moder slavery ad will strive to eradicate forced labor from our value chais. Colgate complies with the Califoria Trasparecy i Supply Chais Act, ad our disclosure statemet is available o ColgatePalmolive.com/Sustaiability. Later i 2016, we will also meet the disclosure requiremets of the Uited Kigdom 2015 Moder Slavery Act. Coflict Mierals Colgate supports edig the violece ad huma rights violatios by armed groups i the Democratic Republic of Cogo (DRC) ad eighborig coutries that has bee fuded i part by proceeds from the miig of cassiterite, columbite-tatalite (colta), wolframite ad gold, icludig their derivatives ti, tatalum ad tugste (3TGs). For more iformatio, see Colgate s Policy o Coflict Mierals. Supplier Resposible Sourcig Assessmets Through the Supplier Resposible Sourcig Assessmet Program, we have assessed the performace of more tha 73% of Colgate s suppliers i high-risk geographies sice 2012, drivig improved workig coditios for more tha 26,000 employees across our exteral supply chai.
Accordig to the World Health Orgaizatio, tooth decay ad detal caries (cavities) are amog the most chroic diseases, affectig 60 to 90 percet of school childre ad early every adult i the world. May childre aroud the world do ot have access to the basic detal care ad educatio that ca help prevet oral health diseases.
People Cotributig to Commuities Promotig Oral Health As a leadig provider of oral care products, Colgate has the uique ability to educate ad improve the oral health of childre ad their families. Colgate s flagship Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF) program is amog the most far-reachig, successful childre s oral health iitiatives i the world. With log-stadig parterships with govermets, schools ad commuities, BSBF has reached more tha 850 millio childre ad their families i over 80 coutries sice 1991, with a ew goal to reach 1.3 billio childre by 2020. Through BSBF, voluteer detists visit local commuities to coduct free detal screeigs ad educate childre ad their families about the importace of maitaiig good oral health. Colgate also distributes toothpaste ad toothbrushes as well as award-wiig educatioal materials, icludig videos, books, software ad activities i over 30 laguages for use i the classroom or at home. I may coutries, the materials have become part of the permaet school curriculum. BSBF builds o a log legacy of oral health educatio. Colgate has provided school programs sice 1911. I 1991, we lauched BSBF, reachig 25,000 childre i the U.S. I 2016, Colgate is celebratig 25 years of the BSBF program. We are celebratig our aiversary all year log with our cosumers, educators, retail parters, detal professioals ad childre. The World Health Orgaizatio calls cavities the most chroic global disease. Millios of Childre Reached Through Bright Smiles, Bright Futures 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2020 Goal 650 700 750 800 850 1,300
Brighter Smiles Aroud the World Colgate parters with govermet health agecies, o-govermetal associatios (NGOs) ad detal associatios to expad the reach of oral care educatio aroud the world. As a foudig sposor of the Alliace for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF), Colgate has joied a worldwide group of experts seekig to promote itegrated cliical ad public health actio i order to stop caries iitiatio ad progressio ad to move towards a cavity-free future for all age groups. To date, ACFF has lauched 26 chapters aroud the world, with more plaed for 2016. I early 2016, Colgate lauched a partership with Save the Childre to brig oral health care to margialized childre i the U.S. ad globally. The partership focuses o icreasig access to oral health care ad products ad will beefit early 3,000 childre i the U.S. ad over 35,000 childre i low-resource eviromets, icludig Bolivia, Egypt, El Salvador, Hoduras, Malawi, Mozambique ad Zambia. Colgate parters with the Brazil Miistry of Health to trai Commuity Health Agets to teach oral care ad hadwashig educatio i the commuity. Over 25,000 agets have bee traied sice the program s iceptio, reachig over 14 millio people i more tha 27 cities i the coutry. I Idia, Colgate is workig with Jeevika, a wome s empowermet orgaizatio, to provide oral health educatio ad access to products i rural commuities i rural Bihar (Easter Idia), where as little as 50 percet of people use toothpaste. Iitially supported by the World Bak ad ow by the Govermet of Bihar, Jeevika works at the village ad household level to improve livelihood ad reduce vulerability of the rural populatio of Bihar. The Jeekiva etwork reaches over two millio households i Bihar through various village orgaizatios. Through this partership, Colgate has the ability to leverage wome s roles as chage agets to improve oral care habits. Maukhik Swasthya Mitras i the Jeekiva village orgaizatios receive oral care certificatio ad act as ambassadors to teach village orgaizatios about proper oral care ad drive behavior chage i the commuity. At the same time, Colgate is reachig childre ad their families i the regio through the BSBF program as well as egagig rural retailers. I 2014, Colgate expaded the BSBF program to the Uited Kigdom where over 45 percet of eight-year-olds have experieced decay i their primary teeth. Sice its iceptio, we have reached 300,000 childre i 2,500 schools ad 9,000 detists.
Brighter Smiles Aroud the World At the ed of 2014, Colgate exteded the BSBF program to the Southeast Asia atio of Timor-Leste. The prevalece of detal decay i the regio is very high over 70 percet of the youg geeratio has detal decay or detal-related problems. Colgate lauched BSBF i Timor-Leste i partership with the Miistry of Health, Miistry of Educatio ad other parters with a goal to provide 100,000 childre with sufficiet oral health educatio. Colgate parters with the America Detal Associatio Foudatio each year to sposor the Give Kids A Smile program, providig oral health educatio ad free prevetive ad restorative care to childre from low-icome families. Each year, approximately 350,000 uderserved childre beefit from more tha 1,500 evets, thaks to the efforts of 40,000 or more aual voluteers. I some coutries, BSBF is mobile. I the U.S., Colgate s fleet of mobile detal vas travel to rural ad urba commuities to provide free detal screeigs ad oral health educatio to childre i eed, reachig over 1,000 tows ad more tha te millio childre each year. I 2015, Colgate lauched a ew va program i Baltimore, Marylad, where over 30 percet of the populatio has utreated detal caries. Colgate ofte ivolves our employees i BSBF programs, providig opportuities to voluteer i the commuity or to teach their families about oral health. I Swidica, Polad i 2015, Colgate held a two-day evet for employees ad their families with detal checkups, fu activities ad employee traiig to be BSBF ambassadors i the commuity. Tory Islad is the most remote ad uihabited islad i Irelad. The populatio has limited access to detal care, leadig to high levels of tooth decay ad loss. Colgate partered with the local school system to orgaize a oral health educatioal semiar, ope to all Isladers, ad provided products. The BSBF program builds shared value for both Colgate ad society, eablig Colgate to make a sigificat impact i the commuities where we live ad work while egagig with cosumers to build our brad value. For example, i the Philippies, a Brush at Night program highlighted the importace of brushig three times a day to childre ad their families. Through televisio advertisig, the BSBF program ad a teacherled program i schools, the iitiative both promoted oral health awareess i the coutry ad helped yield over 4 percet compouded aual growth i per capita cosumptio of Colgate products over a three- to fouryear period. The BSBF program i the Caribbea regio has also helped cotribute to sales growth ad icreased market share through Oral Health Moth programs.
Spotlight o... Smile Greada Colgate parters with govermet health agecies, NGOs ad detal associatios to expad the reach of oral care educatio aroud the world. Parterships help expad the BSBF program ad improve oral health, especially i uderserved areas. Each parter s uique stregths ad resources help achieve greater results i less time, at a lower cost ad with greater sustaiability. Colgate s partership i Greada with the New York Uiversity College of Detistry (NYUCD) ad the Hery Schei Cares Global Studet Outreach Program was a particularly successful program that brought measurable chage across a atio. More tha 83 percet of childre i the small islad atio of Greada suffered from utreated tooth decay whe the NYUCD Hery Schei Cares Global Studet Outreach Program coducted a atioal oral health survey i 2010. Together with the NYUCD, Hery Schei Cares ad Greada s Miistries of Health ad Educatio, Colgate partered o a two-ad-a-halfyear coutrywide itervetio to improve the icredibly high burde of oral health disease. The Smile Greada program icluded implemetatio of daily classroom toothbrushig routies, oral health educatio ad applyig fluoride varish ad sealats ad reached all schools i the coutry. It was importat to icorporate the program ito Greada s existig educatio ad early childhood health systems i order to esure owership by the local workforce ad sustaiable oral health outcomes. Teacher traiig icluded guidace o proper toothbrushig techiques ad fluoride varish applicatio as well as age-appropriate lessos for classroom-based oral health ad utritio educatio. Smile Greada had a dramatic effect o the cliically measurable idicators of oral health for school-aged childre i Greada, resultig i a ear 75 percet decrease i ew tooth decay whe measured i 2013. It remais oe of the most successful, evidece-based itervetios i Colgate s history. NYUCD has also stated that Smile Greada is to date the most profoud example of the capacity of the NYUCD Hery Schei Cares Global Studet Outreach Program to improve oral health. Most importatly, the partership helped improve oral health for the 26,000 childre across Greada. The program also provided learigs for future itervetio to improve oral health cost-efficietly ad i a sustaiable maer. Based o this success, Colgate has lauched a ew three-year oral health itervetio ad research program i Maila, Philippies, where the icidece of cavities amog childre is 90 percet. Colgate is parterig with the Uiversity of the Philippies College of Detistry, the Philippies Departmet of Educatio ad New York Uiversity o a schoolbased itervetio that follows a similar model to the Greada project. Colgate believes that ew, shared strategies for cavity prevetio ca chage the covetioal approach to treatmet. Oly by workig collaboratively as a global team, ca we fid breakthrough solutios ad reach those people who eed them most. ~Ia Cook, Chairma, Presidet ad Chief Executive Officer, Colgate-Palmolive Colgate partered with the New York Uiversity College of Detistry ad the Greada Miistry of Health o a two-ad-a-half year itervetio that resulted i a ear 75 percet decrease i tooth decay i childre i Greada.
Hadwashig Educatio The simple act of washig hads with soap is oe of the most effective ways to prevet disease trasmissio, especially i childre. Hadwashig with soap at key times, however, is ot widely practiced. As a leadig marketer of bar ad liquid had soaps, Colgate is workig with public health officials, academia, local schools ad cliics to educate millios of childre ad their families about the health ad hygiee beefits of hadwashig with soap. Colgate s global hadwashig program provides educatioal materials ad sample products to schools ad commuities ad builds awareess through advertisig ad public relatios campaigs. I some coutries, Colgate teaches hadwashig as part of our Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF) oral care educatio program, buildig the steps for proper hadwashig ito the oral care curriculum ad messagig. Like the oral care compoet of BSBF, the program creates shared value for both Colgate ad society, helpig to improve health outcomes while buildig brad awareess ad reputatio for Colgate s Palmolive ad Protex soap brads. I 2015, Colgate reached 35 millio people through advertisig, media campaigs, commuity evets ad educatioal programs i schools. Turig hadwashig with soap ito a igraied habit could save more lives tha ay sigle vaccie or medical itervetio. ~Global Public-Private Partership for Hadwashig with Soap Brazil I some coutries, Colgate also teaches hadwashig as part of our Bright Smiles, Bright Futures oral care educatio program.
Hadwashig Highlights Colgate was oe of the ie foudig members of the Global Hadwashig Day campaig i 2008, alog with parters such as the World Bak ad UNICEF. Celebrated October 15th, Global Hadwashig Day drives awareess of the vital importace of hadwashig with soap ad its impact o health. I 2009, Colgate was the first compay to brig the Global Hadwashig Day campaig to Thailad, raisig awareess about hadwashig with the Protex brad. I 2015, Colgate partered with Thailad s Pricess Soamsawali to raise awareess with a studet art cotest. Colgate also worked through the BSBF program ad the Thailad Miistry of Educatio ad Departmet of Health to doate bar soap ad educatioal materials to over 30,000 schools. Ad with retail parter Tops, Colgate additioally egaged cosumers i stores ad olie. Colgate has partered with Tops to raise awareess aroud Global Hadwashig Day sice 2011. Colgate partered with retailers, icludig Rossma, Tesco ad Dask i Germay, Demark, Swede, Filad, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romaia ad Hugary i 2014 ad 2015 o campaigs to raise hadwashig awareess amog childre ad their families. I oe campaig, shoppers were asked to participate i a hadwashig family challege by recordig their hadwashig activities ad egagig i family competitio. Resources were provided both i stores ad olie, icludig a dowloadable hadwashig sog.
Through the Palmolive brad s Clea Hads, Good Health program i Australia ad New Zealad, we promote hadwashig awareess to childre ad their families by providig pre-school educatio kits with posters, storybooks ad teachers guides. Sice 2009, Clea Hads, Good Health has reached 1.8 millio pre-school aged childre through these educatioal kits. The program also icludes commuicatios through web resources ad olie ad social media egagemet. Each year, Clea Hads, Good Health builds awareess aroud Global Hadwashig Day. I 2015, we reached over five millio people through digital ad public relatios activity, ad distributed 8,000 preschool educatio kits. A commitmet to support WASH, or water, saitatio ad hygiee programs is part of Colgate s Water Stewardship Strategy ad our commitmet to parter with local ad global orgaizatios to brig clea water to uderserved areas of the world. Through our partership with Water For People, Colgate supports programs that provide access to clea water, saitatio systems ad/or health ad hygiee educatio, icludig hadwashig educatio, i Guatemala, Peru ad Idia. I 2015, Colgate cotributed to Water For People s Everyoe Forever program, helpig them to reach early 100,000 people i 2015 i these coutries. I some areas, Colgate also implemets our BSBF oral care educatio program ad our hadwashig programs i the commuities that receive clea water.
Accordig to the ASPCA, over 7 millio compaio aimals eter U.S. aimal shelters each year. That s early 4 millio dogs ad 3.5 millio cats waitig to go home to a lovig family.
Helpig Pets Fid a Home Through the Hill s Food, Shelter & Love program, Colgate parters with aimal shelters across the U.S. to provide Hill s Sciece Diet pet food at a discout. Developed by veteriarias ad utritioists, Hill s Sciece Diet offers superior utritio for pets. Hill s also provides shelters with traiig, digital tools ad cotet, ad shelter visuals. For pet owers, Hill s provides Sciece Diet adopter kits with coupos ad Your New Best Fried Guide digital books. Hill s believes that makig premium utritio accessible to every shelter ad every pet helps sed them home faster. Whether a shelter has 100 or 10,000 adoptios a year, the goal is to esure that every pet goes home healthy ad happy. Through this partership, the Compay provided pet food with a retail value of more tha $3.2 millio i 2015, which adds up to almost $285 millio to early 1,000 shelters sice the program s iceptio i 2002. These doatios have helped more tha eight millio dogs ad cats fid their forever homes. Hill s employees are also egaged i helpig pets i eed. I 2015, Hill s people i Kasas, U.S., participated i a Uited Way Day of Carig, voluteerig at a local aimal shelter. The voluteers made toys for homeless dogs, washed laudry ad feedig bowls, prepared treats, teded to the play yard ad spet time socializig with the aimals. Hill s also parters to provide food shipmets to shelters i the evet of a emergecy through the Hill s Disaster Relief Network, a first-of-its-kid formalized U.S. emergecy etwork for pets. Workig with more tha 100 existig shelter parters, Hill s is prepared to respod quickly with food shipmets for pets affected by disasters, whether to feed displaced pets ad pets belogig to displaced people, or provide food to families, allowig them to keep their pets with them. I 2015, Hill s respoded to 20 emergecies across the U.S., from toradoes to wild fires. We ve got about a thousad aimals to care for every day at the Sa Diego Humae Society. That care starts with the food we provide. The program shares our visio to provide exceptioal care ad utritio to aimals, the hallmark of our shelter. We are very excited about the beefits for our adoptio program, our staff, our adopters, ad most of all, our aimals. ~Gary Weitzma, Presidet ad CEO of the Sa Diego Humae Society SPCA Hill s is icredibly committed to aimal welfare orgaizatios like ours year-roud through their Food Shelter & Love program, ad it is woderful that, through commuity service evets like the Day of Carig, they also provide hads-o care to the homeless pets i the commuities where their employees live. ~Kate Meghji, Executive Director for the Lawrece, Kasas, Humae Society Hill s Pet Nutritio has provided pet food with a retail value of almost $285 millio to aimal shelters sice 2002, helpig more tha eight millio dogs ad cats fid their forever homes.
Cotributios 2015 Cotributios $28.28 millio* Colgate cotributes both fudig ad products to a wide rage of charities ad commuity orgaizatios aroud the world. Colgate also parters with retailers, cosumers ad our employees to raise fuds. Drive by Colgate s core value of Carig ad supported by the ivolvemet of Colgate people, our Global Givig Program makes a differece i the commuities we serve by supportig orgaizatios that address health ad educatioal disparities. Colgate s givig priorities are 1) creatig educatioal opportuities, 2) advacig health ad well-beig ad 3) egagig Colgate people. Highlights For more tha 26 years, Colgate has bee a sposor of Starlight Childre s Foudatio, a leadig global charity that parters with experts to improve the life ad health of kids ad families aroud the world. Sice 1989, Colgate has cotributed more tha $12.1 millio to support programs such as Starlight Fu Ceter mobile etertaimet uits ad ipad tablet techology i hospitals i the U.S. to offer fu ad distractio for pediatric patiets. Colgate parters with the Mexico Miistry of Public Educatio ad the Mexica Detal Associatio s foudatio o the SaludArte (Health ad Art) iitiative to chage school-based health i the coutry. More tha 25,000 disadvataged childre i 110 schools ow participate i the program, which icludes daily hadwashig ad toothbrushig, a well-balaced meal ad time for play, art, cultural activities ad sports. Tom s of Maie doates 10% of profits each year to oprofit orgaizatios committed to causes such as huma health, aimal welfare, educatio, ad evirometal sustaiability. Through the brad s 50 States for Good program, Tom s of Maie awarded 52 oprofit orgaizatio wiers a total of more tha $1 millio i combied project fudig i 2015. I South Africa, Colgate sposors the Phelophepa Trai, a mobile hospital that provides medical care ad oral health care i commuities where medical services ad ifrastructure are uavailable. Each year the trai treats early 50,000 people i 37 commuities. Colgate has sposored the Colgate Wome s Games sice 1973, the largest wome s idoor track ad field series i the U.S. Ope ad free to all girls from elemetary school through college ad beyod, the Colgate Wome s Games have awarded over $1 millio i educatioal grats-i-aid ad produced 17 Olympias to date. *Cash ad i-kid cotributios to charitable orgaizatios, icludig spedig for the Bright Smiles, Bright Futures program i Colgate s 20 largest subsidiaries (by oral care sales).
Through the Haz la Lu or Make the U programs i the U.S., Colgate parters with the Hispaic Heritage Foudatio to celebrate Hispaic Heritage Moth, providig educatioal grats totalig $75,000 each year for Hispaic youth. Colgate parters with The Smith Family charity to support educatio for disadvataged childre i Australia. I 2015, Colgate doated approximately $190,000. Helpig i Times of Need I Myamar, where early oe millio people experieced sigificat floodig i 2015, Colgate employees distributed Colgate ad Protex products to victims i thirtee affected areas. Employees i Thailad ad Vietam also helped by providig fuds to UNICEF, which Colgate matched. I Frace, Colgate doated products worth approximately $55,000 to a oprofit orgaizatio providig aid to refugees. Helpig Through Our Brads Durig the moth of Ramada, Colgate Malaysia sposors the Let s Do Charity Together campaig. For each tube of toothpaste purchased i store by cosumers, a doatio was made to orphaages chose by the Malaysia Social Welfare Departmet. Over the last seve years, the Compay has cotributed more tha $300,000 through this campaig to orphaages i Malaysia. I the aftermath of Tropical Cycloe Wisto i Fiji, i 2016 Colgate doated over 30,000 toiletry items to the Fiji Red Cross Society, icludig toothpaste, toothbrushes, bar soap ad cleaig products. Hill s Pet Nutritio parters to provide food shipmets to shelters i the evet of a emergecy through the Hill s Disaster Relief Network, a firstof-it s-kid formalized U.S. emergecy etwork for pets. I 2015, Hill s respoded to 20 emergecies across the U.S., from toradoes to wild fires. I Idia, Colgate lauched a scholarship cotest i 2013 to make a small yet meaigful differece i childre s lives. With each roud, over 200 cosumers have the opportuity to wi educatioal scholarships of up to approximately $1,500 by callig a umber prited o Colgate packagig ad advertised i stores ad i the commuity. Past wiers ca ow atted better schools, purchase books, pay for Eglish classes or simply cotiue their studies istead of leavig to work. The program brigs shared value for the Compay ad the commuity buildig brad reputatio ad awareess for Colgate while providig educatioal opportuities for childre i eed. Based o the success ad impact of the Idia program, Myamar, Thailad, the Philippies ad Malaysia will lauch similar cotests i 2016.
Colgate People Givig Back Colgate provides opportuities for our people to voluteer i local commuities throughout the year. As part of our goal to ivolve more Colgate voluteers i our commuity programs, we have created ways for Colgate people to voluteer with our Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF) program ad other Colgate-sposored activities, ad we are buildig more programs each year. Colgate people are eager ad ethusiastic voluteers. Here are just some examples from aroud the world i 2015: Colgate people i may locatios across the U.S. rolled up their sleeves ad cotributed to local commuities durig the third aual Colgate Cares Day i 2015. Voluteers gave their time i activities such as restorig a park area ad teachig Colgate s BSBF program. I New Jersey, Colgate people worked with our water parter, The Nature Coservacy, to plat 200 trees alog the Paulis Kill River. I Brazil, employees are traied to be Agetes do Sorrisos or Smile Agets to teach BSBF i local commuities. The program ow has a etwork of over 500 voluteers who have reached more tha 32,000 childre.
Colgate people i Ecuador gave back i 2015 by buildig two houses i the local commuity. I Colombia, Colgate people trasformed a bus ito a mobile library ad gave gifts to early 2,000 childre durig the December holidays. I Switzerlad, Colgate people partered with the Basel Muicipality Cleaig Departmet o a cleaup alog the Rhie River. I Portugal, Colgate people voluteered at a local childre s home, the Casa do Gaiato, where they improved garde ad recreatioal areas, istalled a ew sprikler system ad provided Colgate products. Tom s of Maie celebrates a aual Goodess Day whe every employee ca voluteer i the commuity. Tom s of Maie employees ca also use 5 percet of their paid time to support a cause they are passioate about, from workig at historical societies or buildig homes for Habitat for Humaity, to maitaiig trails ad facilities at state parks. For four years, Colgate people i South Africa have voluteered i the local commuity for Earth Day. I 2015, employees visited two local schools i the Johaesburg area where they plated trees ad doated food. Colgate also doated water taks for the schools ad educated studets about water coservatio. Colgate people i South Africa also voluteer durig Madela Day, voluteerig i the local commuity by platig trees, servig meals or visitig the sick. Ad as part of our Live Better commitmet, Colgate has sposored a Road Race for the Boksburg commuity for over 20 years, ecouragig healthy exercise for employees ad the commuity alike ad doatig moey raised to the local Athletic Club.