About Us
As a multinational manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name food and meat products, we like to say we are “rooted in integrity; guided by innovation.” In other words, corporate responsibility is a part of our heritage and our everyday work. This report provides information on our benchmarks, progress made and our future goals in the areas of people, process, products, performance and philanthropy.
About this Report
For the first time, our report is available in its entirety online. Within this report you can read about our environmental performance, employee training, product safety and our future goals, among other topics.
Our hope is that with the digital report, readers can search and find information quickly and easily. Additionally, we invite readers to help us improve the next report by sharing thoughts in the Feedback section. A printable executive summary PDF is also available here.
As part of our ongoing reporting, we continue to benchmark against industry peers and best practices in the area of corporate responsibility in order to determine key issues and topics that are important to our stakeholders.
The report uses the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines, which provide a recommended framework and indicators for reporting. To view the full list of indicators included within this report, visit the Content Index section. We are reporting at a GRI-checked application level of “B." More information on the G3 Guidelines and application levels is available at http://www.globalreporting.org. In addition to GRI, the report was reviewed extensively by subject-matter experts and many of our top executives. In the future, we plan to seek external assurance.
Jeffrey M Ettinger, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer, outlines our vision and progress for corporate responsibility.
Our 2008 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibililty Report outlines the reporting period, boundary, content and stakeholder engagement.
Hormel Foods is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name food and meat products.
In the News
While we report our corporate responsibility progress on an annual basis, we announce new initiatives throughout the year and invite you to check this page for updated information about our ongoing corporate responsibility efforts.
For additional information about Hormel Foods, please visit our Newsroom.
Archives
We published our first Hormel Foods Citizenship Overview in January 2007, which highlighted our commitment to being a good corporate citizen. Our 2007 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Report was published in January 2008 and included benchmark data from fiscal year 2006 (November 2005 to October 2006) and anecdotal data from fiscal year 2006 to October 2007.
To download a copy of these reports, please click on the correlating links below.
2007 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Report
2006 Hormel Foods Citizenship Overview