Dealing with Corporate Social Responsibility in the cocoa bean supply chain

Invitation:

Toms Group and CSR

18 May 2011 at 15.15-17.00
University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Life Sciences (KU/LIFE)

Jesper Møller, CEO, Toms Group

will explain how Toms addresses CSR with a particular focus on the cocoa bean supply chain. Toms Group, a participant in the United Nations’ Global Compact, is Denmark’s largest producer of chocolate and other candy. Toms supplies ingredients from around the world, including cocoa beans from Western Africa. Cocoa bean sourcing involves a number of CSR challenges. Toms has developed a strategy to address some of these, including child labour. Toms’ CSR work also involves environmental and occupational health and safety issues. Jesper Møller’s presentation will be followed by a discussion.

Venue

Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen, Lecture room A 2-84.01 (Ground Floor, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg)

Registration

Not required but appreciated for organisational purposes.

Please send an e-mail to Hanne Teilmann Møller () by 16 May.

Organiser

Karin Buhmann, Associate Professor (law & CSR), Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen; Co-ordinator of CSR Forum’s Working Group on Human Rights ()