• Blog Home
• Industry
  • All industries
  • Basic materials
  • Consumer goods
  • Consumer services
  • Financials
  • Health care
  • Industrials
  • Oil & gas
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Utilities
• Stakeholder
  • All stakeholders
  • Brand
  • Careers
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Customer
  • Employee
  • Investor
  • Media
  • Shareholders
  • Supplier
• Interviews
• RSS Centre
• Opportunities
  • Guest Posting

Glanbia–Ethics and Employees

• Tweet
• Share on Tumblr
• Email

• Tweet
• Share on Tumblr
• Share
• Email

Glanbia is an Ireland based diversified food company. Their website could be a model for good business and financial reporting. The Homepage is a gem–

Observations–

• Letter and picture for the Managing Director
• Good display of the business and performance
• Links to more information about the company

Well designed, organized and eye appeal with sacrificing content.

Next, go to the Strategy section where there is a graphic and narrative description and targets that are boldly displyed–

How’s that for Transparency!

Hurray, the Annual Report is online –

Navigation is provided and you get a menu of services such as–

• Create a PDF of the page
• Send the company feedback
• Print
• Put page in a print basket

Very nice indeed. Another notable feature of this site are short narratives from employees–

This feature sends a message that the company values its people and gives a sense of humanizing an otherwise static medium.

Finally the company discusses Integrity–

• The Board applies integrity, principles of good governance and accountability throughout its activities and each Director brings independence of character and judgement to the role. All of the members of the Board are individually and collectively aware of their responsibilities to the Company’s stakeholders. (2008 Annual Report), (Governance Report)

• We encourage all our people to ‘Make a Difference’ through:

high energy performance;

constant innovation in the way we work and openness to change;

clear accountability and delivering on our commitments;

personal integrity and pride in Glanbia. (Corporate Culture Statement)

• The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity
  of the website.(2008 Annual Report) This is unique. I have not seen this on other corporate websites.

All notable since Integrity is aplified by the “Tone at the Top”. The company would benefit greatly by adding an Ethics/Integrity Process that would integrate these statements.

Search:

• About Corporate Eye

  Corporate Eye provides information and insight into best practice in online corporate communications.

  Is your main interest industry based, or stakeholder based? Either way, we hope we've made it easy for you to find something relevant to you and your company.

  Please explore ...

More in Best Practices, Consumer goods, Corporate governance (306 of 848 articles)

Close