community investment

Our tradition of community investment is grounded in the conviction that healthy, prosperous, educated and socially inclusive communities are good for business. This belief has guided our company from the start.

We are determined to nurture those communities that are so vital for the development and prosperity of good business.

For Cadbury Schweppes, community investment is about investing money, the time and skills of our employees, and giving gifts-in-kind in order to support the communities in which we conduct our business. Our community is made up of the many people we interact with on a daily basis: our consumers, neighbourhoods and the wider communities in which we operate. We have always recognised that we do not operate in isolation and that we have broader responsibilities to society. We regard community investment as a business imperative.

In managing our community investment affairs we apply the same standards, discipline and excellence that we do in every other part of our business, and manage our programmes just as professionally. We regularly monitor and measure the effectiveness of our initiatives and are constantly striving to improve the positive impact and social benefit of our community activities, sharing best practices across the business and applying lessons learned to benefit new projects.