Orkla’s many companies depend on a positive interaction with the community of which they form a part, while they themselves generate positive ripple effects to the community.
The companies’ most important contribution to the community is greater prosperity in the form of employment and direct and indirect taxes, while their involvement in areas such as education, research and culture is also beneficial to both the companies themselves and the community.
Orkla’s corporate responsibility guidelines describe the responsibility of the individual company to handle problems at the interface between the company and society at large in a constructive manner, and to have an open dialogue with important stakeholders. The group’s multi-local organisational model gives its companies the freedom to choose the nature of their interaction with society themselves.
Many Orkla companies are cornerstone enterprises in their local communities. The companies often have a well-developed dialogue with local authorities and the business sector, and contribute in various ways to the development of a good neighbourhood. The Orkla companies make a considerable contribution to local wealth creation. The group currently has about 30,000 employees, and Group companies create roughly twice that number of jobs among their suppliers. In addition, collaboration with suppliers and external partners contributes to transfer of expertise. As a result of Orkla’s decentralised model, appointments are made locally for the most part.
The Orkla companies contribute in different ways to their local communities, through collaboration with and financial support to organisations engaged in sport, education, culture and voluntary work. This collaboration ranges from purely financial support to cooperation on events, information programmes and trainee and visiting schemes. The Orkla companies provide information about their engagement on their own websites.
