Values
- From the start, we’ve been building a team of excellent individuals who value integrity, responsibility and good work ethics. We act upon those values every day as demonstrated by the high standard of behaviour we uphold in everything we do.
- We are one team hungry for change, striving for excellence in all that we do.
- We work every day to make our customers and consumers smile.
- We value continuous improvement in our people, our products and our business.
- We cherish the “can do” spirit, trying but failing is okay, failing to try isn’t.
- We dare to be different, new ideas, innovation and differentiation matter.
- We value teamwork and the sharing of ideas.
- We win market by market and create advantage by leveraging our global scale.
- We believe that honesty, integrity, and fair dealings are integral to our success – good ethics is good business.
- We “drink the local wine”: we are multi-cultural and care about our people, our families, and our local community.
- We take pride in being a family business.
When the McCain Brothers founded our company they had a simple theory: ‘good ethics is good business' - as true today as it was then – and it’s what we mean when we say, ‘It’s all good’.
It’s not just about the food, it’s about every aspect of our family business – from our products to the way we work with our farmers to our relationships with our customers. So while we’re taking care of business, we’re also looking out for our environment, our community, and our people. In short, we do our best to make sure McCain is a good company, making good, simple food.
Our Code of Conduct contains many strict rules, setting out acceptable forms of behaviour in all areas of our operations, including prohibitions on political donations, questionable or improper payments, and controls on the giving or receiving of gifts or entertainment. There have been no reported instances of breach of our Code of Conduct, nor has McCain Foods (GB) Ltd made any political donations.
Our Responsibilities
It's All Good, is our philosophy. Our aim is to ensure that this simple message permeates through every aspect of our business, touching the lives of our suppliers, our customers and consumers, our employees and their families, our local and global communities and is reflected in our continuously improving environmental and social performance. These pages contain detailed information about the Corporate Responsibility activities of McCain Foods (GB) Ltd, a division of McCain Foods Limited of Canada.
Our Communities
The interests of the local communities around our processing facilities and the broader communities we serve with our products are central to our operations. We rely on the goodwill of our communities, recruit our employees from them and supply our products to them. By supporting associations and charities at both local and national level, helping to address the issues surrounding healthy diet and lifestyle and by consulting and actively engaging with our communities on issues relating to our operations affecting them, we strive to build meaningful and lasting relationships of mutual benefit and trust.
Our Environment
In our business we are close to the land and especially aware of our responsibilities to the environment and its limited resources in providing our raw materials, resourcing our manufacturing facilities and distributing our products for our consumers to enjoy in the knowledge that we work continuously to improve our performance in all aspects of our environmental impact.
Our Workplace
We believe that our employees are our most valuable asset and that in order for them to realise their potential we must provide a safe and healthy working environment, full training and development opportunities, the means for a good work-life balance to be achieved and the encouragement to take their skills outside the workplace for the benefit of themselves and the community as a whole.
Our Marketplace
Through our large network of suppliers, including of course our potato growers, our customers and consumers we work to promote sustainable agricultural practices, protection of human rights, fair trading, the provision of good wholesome food products and not least the responsible promotion of those products.