Tim Hortons Corporate Social Responsibility

Tim Hortons Café and Bake shop ("Timmies"), has grown from a mere, single coffee shop to an international operating corporation over the last four decades. So what?, one might ask. Timmies has maintained the Canadian family culture founded by the chains original owner, Tim Horton, the once star hockey player. Tragically, Tim Horton was killed in an accident in 1974 but the same family values linger on. During my very recent visit to my local "Timmies" shop had me thinking in a totally different perspective than the prior three decades of me enjoying a breakfast and coffee wake-up call.

For the rest of the meal I’ll still need tomato sauce, I need spinach leaves, onions, garlic cloves, pecans, and basil leaves. Fortunately the basil and pecan nuts are easier to acquire because I happen to have garden at my house which does produce both of these ingredients. As for the other ingredients, the rest is purchased at the store, the only distinction is a great deal of this is not packaged previously, instead it’s fresh produce so the manufacturing process is not the same. For several years, Kroger has operated with agriculturalists and contractors to transport locally produced merchandises to grocery stores. There are two main farms specifically in Arizona where Kroger does obtain some of their fresh vegetables. These include Rousseau

"Caiman Haiti Foundation has recently received a grant from Thorndyke Elementary School in Washington. This contribution will allow CHF to feed over 600 children this year on the 3rd anniversary of our Feed the People program. This act of kindness will make a great difference in the lives of hundreds of women and children in Haiti. To support Caiman Haiti Foundation as Thorndyke Elementary School has please visit our Donation Page."

Canadians drink coffee every day and with 67% of the adult population coffee drinkers, the demand is there if a business can capitalize on it.

Starbucks desire as the leader in the specialty coffee industry is to be acknowledged for its responsibility to coffee farmers and their families to improve their well-being. The corporation’s primary stakeholders are broad organizations such as, coffee trade associations, suppliers, and groups with interest in sustainable coffee production. Including non-profit groups focused on human rights, social justice, and environmental issues. Other stakeholders include governmental agencies such as, U. S. AID (Starbucks Corporation, 2010).

Tim Hortons though is different, coffee isn’t produced in Canada like it is in places such as Brazil. Which begs the question how did Tim Hortons manage to become a staple of Canadian heritage? Well the answer lies in how it marketed itself to the regular everyday Canadian. A key part of the Canadian identity is the that of being hard working and being low key. When you look inside a Tim Hortons you see exactly that, mostly brown cups, and a brown aesthetic that seems like it is minding its own business.

By provide affordable child care for middle and low income families. The company also provides drug prevention, anti-gang programs for at-risk youth, and help military families to cope with having a family member to serve their country across oversea.

We at Saint Mary’s are very fortunate among the Memphis community. We go to a great school, have nicer homes, and overall stability in our lives. Not all Memphians, much less kids in Memphis, are nearly as lucky as we are. The need for the Community Fund is to create a bridge from us to those less fortunate than we are. We have time and funds, so helping other children is a necessity. Creating a world, or a better Greater Memphis Community, where all children can have the opportunity to thrive and have the chances we do is the goal. We need the Community Fund, so we can spread the blessings we are given because it is only fair we try to help others to the best of our ability.

In Tim Hortons Express, the staff can not deal with a large numbers of people during the busy hours alone; the customers have to wait for the coffee when getting the change. Hence, the customers can get faster coffee if there is a robot delivering the coffee, which is our goal in this project. We need a robot for coffee instead of human being.In order to hold a cup of coffee, the robot should have enough power to supply any size coffee in Tim Hortons including X-large, large, medium and small; therefore, there should be more than 6.78 N power as X-large is 678 mL according Newton’s Law. Tim Hortons Express is a small cafe, which means that the robot should be as small as possible, and the expense of running it should also

According to Lyon, Bezaury, & Mutersbaugh (2010), Fair-trade is a “process which helps improve the well-being and economic stability of disempowered farmers, by using certified commodity-chains to foster development”. For the KHC company, Fair-trade is essential because they want to provide and endorse exceptional coffee beans that they are proud to use; that means, “using coffee that is good and fair for both our coffee drinkers and for farmers are essential” (Kicking Horse Coffee, n.d.). In fact, over the past 20 years, Kicking Horse won numerous awards in many categories, including Canada’s Fastest- Growing Companies, Canada’s Top Women Entrepreneurs, Canada's Favourite Fair-trade Product and number 15 Best Workplace in Canada (Kicking Horse Coffee, n.d.).

This economic sustainability enabled the farmers to produce better quality coffee with higher yields. Corporate social responsibility Conservation supports the ability to produce more as well help to improve lives through agriculture. Farmers should lay out their ambitions by setting their goals in a sustainable agriculture focused on making a positive impact in the society. Supply chain

The Equal Exchange could offer some sort of loans for the small-time coffee growers which they could use for improving their production. When the harvest season comes they could repay the company in any sort of payment they could give. It may come in the form of money or additional volume of coffee.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is explained as a strategy, a function of public relations and theory. The corporate social responsibility has developed into a practice that is necessary for companies that desire to have and maintain a positive image, retain their employees and improve the brand (Moura-Leite & Padgett, 2011). McKesson is a pharmaceutical solutions provider that provides technology, products, and resources for healthcare facilities.

Social responsibility is the future. Investors always have to think about the future. Many people are concerned about the environment and what will happen to the environment in the future. Socially responsible investing is getting increasingly popular. The social responsibility project will come from Canadian tire. This company has many projects to help the community and is very widespread to help many people. Canadian tire is very known in Cape Breton for helping children and even kittens. In early 2014, Canadian Tire were in news stories for taking in abandoned kittens and let them live in the store creating a bigger, more happier fan base of the company. This project will take five percent of profit and use it to be socially

Starbucks inbound logistics comprises of the firm’s quality control specialist in selecting top-quality Arabia coffee beans from suppliers that maintain a sustainable approach. Starbucks supports ethical sourcing by operating “responsible purchasing practices, farmer support…” (Starbucks, 2016) also corporate social responsibility (CSR). Additionally, their tactic is utilizing the “Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices” (Starbucks, 2016), wherein this approach is the first set of sustainability benchmarks in the coffee industry and is certified by third-party logistics professionals. The C.A.F.E. Practices has assisted Starbucks in relation to generating a “long-term supply of high-quality coffee” (Starbucks, 2016) and influencing the lives of the farmers and their communities. Furthermore, Starbucks utilizes economies of scales in their inbound logistics activities by developing outstanding supply chain procedures by using C.A.F.E. and also includes collaborating internationally with managers discussing strategic alliances through suppliers for their products. Starbucks have recently