Code of Conduct
Swedish Match Code of Conduct is the foundation for the Company’s position in areas related to Corporate Responsibility. The Swedish Match commitment to social responsibility and environmental issues is supported by the Group’s core values: Communication, Teamwork, Trust, Innovation, Recognition, and Growth. These values are the platform for Swedish Match business ethics and, as such, they are demonstrated in relations with stakeholders and are a natural part of the way Swedish Match conducts its business.
The Code consists of a number of policies related to the following five areas:
- Social responsibility – including human rights, child labor, supplier contracts, and topics specific to tobacco products.
- Workplace practices – including health and safety, recruitment, and remuneration.
- Business ethics – including conflict of interest, ethical conduct; compliance with laws, rules and regulations; fraud response; gifts and loans; and related party transactions.
- Communication – including designated spokespersons, public reporting and communication, and internal reporting on critical information.
- Environment – including progressive pollution prevention and continuous, measurable environmental improvement.
The Company policies comply with international conventions and guidelines on human rights and labor conditions. The international conventions and guidelines referred to here are the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the central International Labour Organization conventions (ILO), and the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Code of Conduct
Group Environmental Policy
The Swedish Match environmental vision is to achieve a balance in which the Group consistently achieves its commercial objectives while fulfilling the requirements of shareholders, customers and other stakeholders. The purpose of the Group Environmental Policy is to ensure that Swedish Match commits itself to continual environmental improvement and prevention of pollution in all activities, products and services.
Group Environmental Policy
Fraud Response Policy
Swedish Match employees are required to maintain a culture of honesty and opposition to fraud and corruption. The Group Policy on Fraud Response reinforces the Group's approach by setting out the ways in which employees can voice their concerns about suspected fraud or corruption. It also outlines how the Group will deal with such complaints.
Fraud Response Policy
Communications Policy
The main purpose of the Swedish Match Corporate Communications Policy is to establish guidelines for supporting the Company’s business objectives with communication, create leverage of the Swedish Match brand equity and strengthen the confidence in Swedish Match.
The Corporate Communications Policy provides guidelines for how the Swedish Match managers should act in their daily communications with employees and external stakeholders. It primarily covers objectives, division of responsibilities and general guidelines for communicating with various target groups. The policy also establishes who can act as a spokesperson for the Group.
Corporate Communications Policy