SUSTAINABILITY REPORT PLAN ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF GORILLA HEALTH BARS PTY LTD
AUTHOR: SYED WALEED ALI
STUDENT ID: 18360696
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE UNIT OF BUSINESS WRITING IN THE DIPLOMA OF BUSINESS
SUBJECT CODE: BBUS1BSW
LECTURER: MR. JULIAN LEDGER
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY SYDNEY CAMPUS
AUGUST, 2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this report is to assist Gorilla Health Bars (GHB) on how it can improve the sustainability of the company to boost the company’s reputation and to make it financially sound in future. However, the corporation has inadequate finances but it is ready to spend what it has got to develop its CSR profile and working conditions. Therefore, the objective of this report is to examine the current situation of GHB and to recommend it how it can be on the path of sustainability by incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into its decision making in a cost effective manner. This report contains information that has been gathered from ample data sources including company reports, academic books, published general articles
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It manufactures fitness oriented snake bars made from cereals, fruits and nuts. For producing these bars, most of the dried tropical fruits are sourced from Darwin and grains from South Australia. It has recently reached to its break-even. Moreover, it has been observed that its ultimate social motive is supporting GHB which is evident from the fact that the high sales revenues are allowing it to generate small profits in such a small time span. The company is determined to work for environment and for the community as whole not only to enhance its sustainability profile but also to help its customers to develop healthy eating culture. The factory is located in rural Victoria and has expanded a little further to 2-storey factory warehouse with attached
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The GHB CEO Janet Jones aims to develop the Corporate Sustainability focus of GHB Company. Moreover, she believes that a key to enhancing the reputation of GHB Company lies with better Corporate Sustainability. Furthermore, Janet hopes that, in the long run, it will help solve the problems associated with Company finances. Another problem facing GHB is that, Health bars production consumes water beyond the expected amount making water rates to shoot up in the last two years. Owing to this, Janet is keen to attempt to reduce consumption of water where possible. Finally, the CEO aims to establish some positive changes in the arrangements of the supply chain for the food products that are raw. Currently, GHB’s primary source of supply of dried tropical fruit is South Australia and Darwin. As a result, the cost of transport becomes another critical drain on the finances of the company. However, Janet argues that, despite the limited financial resources, she is willing to spend in order to provide the business with the proper operating system and appropriate Corporate Sustainability profile (Marino, 2015).
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