7th January 2013

To our stakeholders

I am pleased to confirm that Tudor Rose 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.

Yours sincerely

Jon Ingleton
Managing director

Tudor Rose confirms its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women. The company encourages personal responsibility – whilst accounting for issues of equality and diversity – and promotes social progress and better standards of life within its sphere of influence.

Tudor Rose also continues to produce publications covering social, political and technological progress for the betterment of a wide range of human development issues around the world.

Tudor Rose has effective health and safety procedures in place, which comply with industry, national and international standards. We also continue to ensure that staff are afforded safe, suitable and sanitary work facilities; that the working week is limited to 40 hours; that overtime is infrequent and limited; and that employees are given reasonable breaks and rest periods. We are mindful of protecting workers from any form of workplace harassment.

We are in full support of the Women’s Empowerment Principles initiative and have signed the CEO Statement of Support.

Human resource policies and procedures are made available to each member of staff by means of the company handbook.

Tudor Rose senior management periodically reviews the company’s responsibilities towards human rights in relation to compliance with national and international law.

Tudor Rose supports the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. We recognise the rights of employees to freedom of association and to bargain collectively and we encourage employees to gather independently to discuss work-related problems.

Tudor Rose has written policies that clearly state employee rights and responsibilities and their compensation and benefits. It is company policy to ensure that decisions concerning hiring, wages, promotion, training, discipline, retirement and termination are based only on unbiased criteria, and are not linked to any discriminatory characteristics.

The company has implemented a mechanism for hearing, processing, and settling employees’ grievances as well as a public disclosure or ‘whistle blowing’ policy.

Employees are consulted in a periodic assessment of company strategy.

Tudor Rose senior management periodically reviews the company’s responsibilities towards labour rights in relation to compliance with national and international law.

At Tudor Rose we are committed to operating our business responsibly, complying with, and ideally exceeding, environmental legislation and approved codes of practice. We are aware that this demands ongoing review and internal housekeeping, and aim to continually improve our performance.

Our ethical procurement policy urges us to consider the environmental and ethical performance of companies in our supply chain and, wherever financially viable, give preference to products and suppliers with the least environmental impact and highest ethical values.

As a publisher of books and magazines, our goals for the upcoming year are to reduce the number copies printed in favour of distributing content digitally being also mindful that digital distribution also has its own carbon footprint.

The printing of our magazines and books is carried out by suppliers that use FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified material. This accreditation guarantees that the paper comes from responsible and rigorously controlled sources. We only use paper which is certified ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free).

We ensure that our print suppliers use vegetable-based inks as standard.

The film used for our bags and wrappers is made from biodegradable material which breaks down by the process of oxidation, thereby reducing the landfill burden. The paper used for the manufacture of our envelopes is made using pulp from sustained forests and manufactured under the ISO 14001 standard.

We encourage our readers to recycle their magazines rather than send them to landfill.

Tudor Rose recognises the impact that unsold copies of books and magazines can have on the supply chain and a significant effort has been made to reduce the volume of these. We ensure that any unsold magazines that are not earmarked for back-issue sales are collected and the paper fibre recycled.

We are in full support of the Caring for Climate initiative and have signed the CEO Statement of Support.

Tudor Rose continues to consider the source of raw materials for suitability in the manufacture of products in the effort to deliver improvements to the company’s carbon footprint.

We have begun to review the impact on the management, processing and costs through the supply chain of reducing the number of unsold copies of our of books and magazines.

It is Tudor Rose’s policy to conduct business in an honest way and without the use of corrupt practices or acts of bribery to obtain an unfair advantage or favour. The company attaches the utmost importance to this policy and applies a “zero tolerance” approach to intentional acts of bribery and corruption by any employee, worker or business partner working on its behalf.

The company informs all employees about its anti-corruption commitment with full details made available in the company handbook of which every staff member has a copy.

The company has and promotes a function by which employees can safely report suspicion of corruption related cases through its public disclosure or ‘whistle blowing’ policy.