15-10.2015

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that Sticks’n’Sushi reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,


Jakob Gaard Nielsen

CSR Manager

In 2015 we finalized our company “Purchase Strategy” in collaboration between our CSR and purchase department. This strategy includes clear guidelines on how we work with our Code of Conduct, both regarding potential new suppliers and products, and existing suppliers and products.

Respect for human rights is naturally a major part of our standards in our Code of Conduct and hence our requirements to new and existing suppliers.

In the strategy, we have divided our suppliers into three categories, a, b, and c suppliers, based on factors of volume, region, product importance, etc.

Our 2015/16 goal is that all “a suppliers” shall be completely assessed according to our standards, and where non-compliance exists, corrective actions have to be initiated.

At Sticks’n’Sushi we believe that human rights is also a question of getting a fair opportunity to make something with your life, for all, no matter where in the world you are born.

We have therefore started a new initiative, where we collaboration with several Danish and English organisations, to offer job opportunities for homeless, former criminal or crime threatened youth, and asylum seekers in the years to come. The result of this new initiative will be reported in next year’s COP.

Being a Denmark & England based company, our main labour rights concerns are directed at the production of the products we purchase from across the world.

That is why labour rights, just like human rights above, are a central part of the standards in our Code of Conduct and the actions in our purchase strategy.

And like human rights, the goal is that all “a suppliers” shall be completely assessed according to our standards for labour rights, and where non-compliance exists, corrective actions have to be initiated.

Regarding our own labour force, Sticks’n’Sushi put lots of effort into ensuring that all our employees know their rights.

Upon employment, all new staff receive a handbook informing them of all their rights and who to contact in specific cases where support may be needed.

All full time permanent employees have a contract that adhere to the Danish Employers’ and Salaried Employees’ Act. 
Our contract for hourly paid employees does not follow the current settlement by the trade union. But we can fully stand behind this contract, which on most critical points such as salary and flexibility, fully live up to the settlement, and on others are above the conditions herein.
As mentioned in our previous COP, with the help of the company Enalyzer, we have conducted a thorough employee satisfaction survey. This servey covers everything from “Motivation & Satisfaction”, “Commitment & Loyalty”, “Working Conditions”, “Work Assignments”, and more.
See results of our survey below.

The following are the results of our 2015 employee satisfaction survey for selected relevant topics. Just like last year, improvements have occured from the previous year on all topics.

Motivation & Satisfaction: 

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2014: 5,5

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2015: 5,6

- Average Survey Score: 5,1

Commitment & Loyalty:

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2014: 5,6

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2015: 5,7

- Average Survey Score: 5,3

Work Assignments:

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2014: 5,8 

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2015: 6,0

- Average Survey Score: 5,7

Professional competences & development:

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2014: 5,2

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2015: 5,3

- Average Survey Score: 5,0

Change & Adaptability:

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2014: 5,8

- Sticks’n’Sushi 2015: 5,8

- Average Survey Score: 5,0

By far the biggest environmental footprint, we have at Sticks’n’Sushi, comes from the production of the food we serve – in specific the animal-based food. Reducing this impact through changes to our menu is therefore our main focus.

Since we have not launched new menu since the last COP, there are no new major results to report.

However, we are planning a new menu in the Spring of 2016, where among others, the goal is to implement even more vegetarian alternatives to as well as change our greens from conventional to organic. Moreover the plan is to implement alternative and more sustainable fish species to the menu.

We have made a “sustainable restaurant check-list” which is to be implemented with our next coming restaurant opening in the Spring of 2016. The aim of the check list is to make sure that we have considered as menu sustainability aspects into the construction and design phase of the opening, as possible. Results of this work will be reported in next years COP.

Point 9. in our Code of Conduct deals with our no-tolerance policy towards corruption and bribery. But being a medium-sized company, anti-corruption is a difficult issue to actively work with.
Besides including it in our supplier audits, we make a great effort to ensure 100% that Sticks’n’Sushi staff do not pay or receive bribery.