Gillette_India_Limited_AR_20

Annual Report 2019-20 21 Company Overview Board's Report MD&A Corporate Governance Financial Statements Gillette India Limited safe, quality products, we expect our suppliers to assure the quality and safety of the products and services they provide to us. Your Company continuously strives to deliver products with improved environmental profile. To reduce the environmental impact of our products your Company uses life cycle analysis to understand where the biggest impact exists, so we know where to focus our innovation. Our deep understanding of the consumer enables us to develop sustainable products that will delight the consumer, without tradeoffs in price or performance. Your Company is focused on the environmental performance of our entire supply chain, including our own manufacturing facilities, our suppliers, and the logistics of our finished products. Through our ‘Suraksha Circle’ program we shared our learnings and best practices on the highest standards of health, hygiene and safety measures at manufacturing sites with the industry. This helped us serve our consumers and provide them with our products which are essential, now more than ever given the cleaning, hygiene and health benefits many of them provide. Your Company is focused on creating efficiencies in energy, water, waste, and emissions. Our sustainability work goes beyond the core of our manufacturing operations, extending to a holistic end- to-end view of opportunities. We deliver strong results across the supply chain, ranging from manufacturing to finished product logistics – engaging our suppliers throughout the process: • Manufacturing: Between the procurement of raw materials and the creation of a product, we strive to reduce waste, water, energy, and CO 2 through systemic conservation efforts. We apply smart eco-design through innovative construction process improvements. And, we re-use, where feasible, giving new life to what was once waste. • Finished Product Logistics: In the logistics stage, we reduce waste in customization by applying more sustainable designs. We have also optimized our transportation efficiency by making changes to the rate, route, mode and method of transportation. We have focused on eliminating inefficiencies such as loading and unloading delays, rush transport up-charges, dead legs (empty trucks) and P&G production line stops. Your Company ensures that it meets all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements related to product quality, safety and labeling. Principle 3: Employee Well-Being For your Company, people are its most important asset. Accordingly, we are committed to the highest standards of safety to protect employees as well as external parties who work at or visit the Company sites. Your Company ensures fair employment practices and also encourages employee engagement and participation by: • Ensuring Health and Safety of all the employees • Providing a Safe work environment by avoiding violence and harassment • Encouraging diverse workforce, non- discriminated opportunities • Continuous Learning, etc. Your Company has identified creation of a highly engaged, business focused organization as a key priority. An engagement strategy was developed to emphasize on employee engagement and to continue to position the Company as an exciting and inspiring place to work, in line with our business strategy. The engagement strategy was co-created with employees, with an aim to ensure key interventions throughout the year, headed by business leaders and enrolling the entire organization. These interventions were focused around diversity & inclusion, skill & capability development, and community impact. Your Company also has various employee centric policies in place, and we truly stepped up on organization initiatives as part of our efforts in the fight against COVID-19 through our response, relief & employee & partner wellbeing program ‘#PGSurakshaIndia’ . Your Company has always been committed to taking care of its employees, and this was more critical than ever given the unprecedented crisis. We constituted a COVID CARE Helpdesk dedicated to offer solutions to employees in the unfortunate event that they or their family members test positive for COVID-19 or are identified as close contacts. The helpdesk provides information on testing, treatment, quarantine & advisory for locations with P&G plants, and sales offices. As employees worked remotely, the in-office collaboration, celebration and a sense of community was significantly impacted. To continue providing