Agility releases 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Agility has grown from a local warehousing company in Kuwait to a top ten player in the logistics industry operating across 100 countries, and its social responsibilities have grown in direct proportion to its influence in local economies.

2011 CSR Report highlights

Environment

• Agility has developed and employed a number of tools to assist customers in determining how to measure and reduce their supply chain operations environmental impact.

• Agility has established a global program to improve employee awareness about the environment with a view to reducing the company’s environmental impact.

• Agility is engaged in the global dialogue on the environment, most notably as a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where it participates in various environment related working groups.

Community involvement

• Agility has leveraged the passion and local knowledge of its employees to enable them to guide its community investment strategy.

• Agility has supported more than 400 community projects in more than 57 countries, reaching an estimated 500,000 people, since 2006.

• Agility employees led 130+ projects in 2010 alone, focusing primarily on youth and education, health, and eco-volunteering initiatives.

Humanitarian and emergency logistics

• Agility provided partner organisations with logistics support in 22 emergency response operations during the last five years. This includes major disasters such as the Pakistan flooding, Haiti earthquake, Indonesia earthquake, Philippines typhoon and Myanmar cyclone.

• Agility is part of a dynamic partnership with UPS, TNT and Maersk to assist in global disaster response by deploying rapid response Logistics Emergency Teams (LETs) to assist the UN Global Logistics Cluster in setting up humanitarian supply chains during emergencies.

Employees

• Agility’s Code of Business Ethics & Conduct includes strong language around its commitment to employees and fair labour practices.

• Agility is an employer in emerging markets; more than 81% of its workforce is based in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

• Agility has a diverse and multicultural workforce, with more than 100 nationalities represented.

• Agility invests heavily in training and development programs for its employees. Its e-learning platform contains 771 courses on 1,923 topics. Through its regional training programs, Agility offers employees occupational health and safety skills, customer services, sales and marketing training, language courses, team building exercises and management courses.

• Agility has developed programs that contribute towards safe and healthy work environments. Since the foundation of its Driver Training Academy in 2006, Agility has sharply reduced the accident rates and the number of injuries, lost hours, vehicle and cargo damage and late delivery penalties.

Business with integrity

• Agility has committed to high standards in its Code of Business Ethics & Conduct.

• Agility established a global ethics and compliance program reporting to the highest level of the company’s management.

• Employees completed more than 28,000 ethics training sessions between 2008 and 2010.

• Agility employees are encouraged and empowered to identify and report ethical concerns through systems that include an alert line available to any employee wishing to provide anonymous input.

• Agility became a signatory of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI).

• Looking forward, Agility intends to widen and deepen its training program, especially at operational and local levels, and will create a strong internal audit program.

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