Employees

The Orkla Group's motto ‘Developing people – creating value' expresses the main goals of its operations. This means that the Group creates value by managing its human capital, which in turn sets clear premises for how the Group is managed and entails considerable obligations towards employees. Read more

Suppliers

Orkla's products must be reliable in terms of their quality, origin and consequences for personal health and the environment, and our business practices must be sustainable. Orkla's development from a Nordic company to a global conglomerate has increased the Group's need for common guidelines and systems for dealing with issues relating to EHS and the working environment in our suppliers' businesses. Read more

Customers and consumers

Orkla creates value by developing products that meet customer needs with insight, and Orkla companies invest substantial resources each year in consumer surveys, customer satisfaction surveys and other types of market analyses. The Group's numerous activities affect our customers and consumers in many areas. Read more

Shareholders

Orkla's goal is to give shareholders a long-term return that is well above the stock market average. To achieve this goal, the Group has an ambitious, continuous growth strategy for its industrial companies. Orkla is one of the largest companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with more than 40,000 shareholders, and it is important for us to communicate effectively and openly with the financial market. Read more

Society

Orkla's role as a social actor is primarily to develop efficient, profitable and competitive companies that will provide the jobs, tax revenues and products that society needs. We have committed ourselves to operating our business in accordance with the principles enshrined in the UN Global Compact. Read more

Konsernsjef Dag J. Opedal

 

In 2007 we revised Orkla's Goals and Values, an internal document that describes the fundamental values on which our corporate culture is based. We also defined the Group's ambition as being to create value by developing people. In this way, we wished to make it clear to ourselves that the key to the Group's future progress and growth lies in our ability to liberate the potential of our employees. Our new motto also emphasises the inter-dependence between our business and the community of which we are a part.

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