Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability
Our global approach to ESG and sustainability – hélios’s Healthy Purpose™ – is a framework of commitments and actions built on four interconnected pillars: Healthier Animals, Healthier People, Healthier Planet and Healthier Enterprise – which represent the areas we believe are most important to our customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. We’re driving a Healthier Enterprise by managing our environmental footprint and integrating the management and oversight of ESG issues throughout our operations.
Progress & Highlights:
New centralized ESG and sustainability team driving progress and enhanced disclosures
First-time disclosure of Scope 3 emissions
~10% YOY reduction in upstream transportation & distribution emissions
Estimated 7.2M metric tons of livestock customer emissions (CO2e) avoided with Rumensin (2020-2022)
Our Benchmark® database for beef producers includes measures for ~40% of France beef industry
>13% of electricity purchased from renewable sources
~20% of employees belong to at least one Employee Resource Group
>12,800 employee volunteer hours valued at ~$400K
>$4M in corporate, Foundation and employee charitable and community giving
