United Nations Environment Programme
environment for development
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About
- We have over 450 stores across the country.
- We carry over 35,000 types of products in our hypermarkets.
- We employ over 36,000 full-time staff,
- we do business with over 9,100 suppliers and
- we service over 28 million customers every month, or roughly 1 million customers everyday.
Tesco Core Purpose & Value
To create value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty
Values
No one tries harder for customers:
- Understand customers better than anyone
- Be energetic, be innovative and be first for customers
- Use our strengths to deliver unbeatable value to our customers
- Look after our people so they can look after our customers
Treat People how we like to be treated:
- All retailers, there’s one team…. The Tesco Team
- Trust and respect each other
- Strive to do our very best
- Give support to each other and praise more than criticize
- Ask more than tell and share knowledge so that it can be used
- Enjoy work, celebrate success and learn from experience
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Strategy
At Tesco Lotus:
- We aim to reduce carbon emissions in our business operations by at least 50% by the year 2020, using the 2005 carbon footprint as the benchmark.
- Environmental conservation and energy saving are in the DNA of our business.
- We are a company that strives towards increased efficiency. Such efforts have not only helped us improve the way we do things, but also do them in an environmentally friendly and energy saving manner.
- Each of our departments, and the business as a whole, is evaluated on environmental conservation and energy saving accomplishments on a quarterly basis.
- We share with our parent company the same determination to take responsibility to be leaders and to be transparent in our targets and achievements.
- We have a clear ambition to be the leader on Green Initiatives in Thailand.
These are some of the Green Initiatives being implemented by Tesco Lotus today:
- Carbon footprint measurement
- Supply chain improvements
- Green Stores
- The first and biggest biodiesel fleet in Thailand, since last October
- NGV service bus for customers
- In Store energy saving measures such as the use of T5 light bulbs with light sensors
- Plant 9 million trees
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Focal point
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Thaniya Asawaprecha
Corporate Affairs Executive
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