Corporate Social Responsability

Empresas Polar integrate social commitment with business,  the different organization areas put all together  objectives, strategies, policies and processes. Today, that commitment with which we were born in 1941, focus our vision in sustainable development, that keeps us open to dialogue, for productive ways of economic balance, social and environmental impact of our actions. 

As a company in the food and beverage industry, we understand the importance of aligning the challenges posed by a changing environment with the business model of the company and our vision of sustainable development. Our social commitment and efforts of sustainable development, provide opportunities of growth, generate investment, reduce our costs, strengthen our business and enhance the value we provide our related groups: shareholders, employees, consumers, suppliers, customers, competitors, communities and country in general. 

This comprehensive position, is strengthened day by day, to take on new challenges to consider, at a first level, the responsibility to comply with our legal and tax obligations of business; on a second level, our response to the effects of our interaction with society; and a third level, a genuine desire to actively contribute to the strengthening of society and communities. 

Polar Companies has a model and a Social Commitment with Sustainable Development (CSDS), which allows us to identify practices and indicators, incorporate aspects of continuous improvement, innovation in responsible and committed practices and measuring progress leading to the sustainability transversely across the organization. 

Since 2009, Fundacion Empresas Polar, it has a role as advisor in Social Commitment, helps  our leaders and experts from different business and areas, to the design, analysis, monitoring and tracking aspects of sustainability 

The story of Empresas Polar provides a useful object lesson in how one company turned its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs into a successful business defense against a powerful, predatory regime. And it demonstrates how companies that have focused on improving the economic and social conditions of their stakeholders—employees, communities and consumers—can protect themselves against expropriation and make avaricious governments contemplating seizure of company assets think twice before risking social backlash...

Today, Empresas Polar continues to operate as Venezuela’s largest private industrial conglomerate, manufacturing and distributing a wide variety of FMCG products. Global recognition is one of the many rewards that the company has received from its business activities and commitment to corporate responsibility. It has been cited as an Exemplary Company for Social Responsibility in Latin America by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy, and received a Business Excellence Award from the America Economic Magazine. In addition, the company’s president, Lorenzo Mendoza, has been honored as the Best Latin American Industrial by the American Industrial Association (AILA).