Godrej Consumer Products Limited ranked No.1among India’s top companies for sustainability and CSR

Godrej Consumer Products Limited ranked No.1among India’s top companies for sustainability and CSR 2021

Mumbai, India – January 17, 2022: Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL), a leading FMCG company, was raked number 1 among the top 100 companies in India, for sustainability and CSR initiatives in 2021. This ranking is based on a survey conducted by Futurescape and published by The CSR Journal, and analyses a list of 100 companies that have mapped their business goals to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2021.

The Responsible Business Rankings of India’s Top Companies for Sustainability and CSR in 2021 show that around 80% of the top 100 companies incorporate SDGs into their responsible business actions. All the top 25 companies map their business goals with SDGs. The Top 10 ranks cover a range of industries — information technology, FMCG, chemicals, life sciences, textiles, power, steel and mining. GCPL is ranked among companies like Infosys, Wipro, Tata Chemicals Limited, ITC Limited, Jubilant Life Sciences Limited, Grasim Industries Limited, VedantaLimited, and Tata Power Company Limited.

GCPL has ranked number 1 for the first time with a spending of INR. 34.08 Crore on CSR initiatives in fiscal year 2020-21. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the company recognised the urgent need for corporate support to be extended to communities to ensure immediate relief. GCPL diverted 63% of its CSR budget to reach over 2.77 lakh of the most vulnerable communities in India and initiated medium and long-term support to over 9,000 nano entrepreneurs. By March 2021, over 1,000 people re-established their businesses or received entitlements.

Commenting on this recognition, Sudhir Sitapati, Managing Director and CEO, GCPL, said: “At Godrej Consumer Products, we are committed to building for a more sustainable future, while placing our planet and people alongside profits. In fiscal year 2020-21, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, we focused our efforts to ensure immediate relief and mid-to-long-term rehabilitation support. We worked in partnership with local authorities, the national government, and our communities, to provide support to the last mile. We continued to support our existing CSR programmes and pivoted our approach to the changing context on-ground. We have now partnered with local healthcare providers to raise awareness on vaccination among low-income and underserved communities. We aim to reach over 1,00,000 people in India by March 2022. Going forward, we have bolder CSR goals, and aim to drive impact for over 13 million people by 2025.”

Another key area of focus in pandemic relief was strengthening public healthcare. GCPL donated medical equipment worth INR 2.36 Crore to the governments in Mumbai and Assam. In India, GCPL donated 21 lakh units of sanitation products in response to requests from local authorities, hospitals, and NGOs for frontline workers and communities.

Godrej Consumer Products Limited Press Release - January 17, 2022 Page 1 of 3 Under its Sustainability and CSR initiative, Good & Green, GCPL has been working towards enhancing the employability of beauty professionals by providing employment to micro and nano beauty influencers, protecting people from vector-borne diseases through its EMBED programme, ensuring judicious use of natural resources, and implementing a range of environmental sustainability and community development initiatives.

GCPL also ranks among the top 15% within the industry for excellence in sustainability as part of

the Sustainability Yearbook 2021 by S&P Global CSA.