Company Culture

Mission and commitment to quality and sustainability

Fruits de Ponent is an agri-food cooperative group with the mission of producing and selling local foodstuffs: stone and seed fruit, cereals, nuts and oil.

We provide services to our members. We strive to offer a quality product and become guarantors of sustainability in the environment, people and economy of our cooperative.

Our Cooperative Group works with the fundamental values of cooperativism, which are the basis of our business culture and the key to our collective success

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Cooperative Values

Solidarity

Our cooperative values of solidarity is dedicated to collaboration and mutual support to ensure the collective progress of its members.

Democracy

Cooperativism is based on democracy, where all members participate fairly and transparently in decisions.

Responsibility

We assume social, economic and environmental responsibility in our actions for the common benefit of members and the community.

Equality

We promote fairness and equity, seeking equal distribution of benefits and equal opportunities for the growth of all members.

Autonomy and independence

As a cooperative, our autonomy and independence are essential to make decisions in keeping with the interests of our members.

Education and training

We value ongoing education and training to enrich members' skills, benefiting both the individual and the cooperative.

Intercooperation

We encourage collaborating with other organisations for joint, sustainable growth.

We remain true to cooperative values

The Group is a signatory to the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact.

Human rights

The company’s ethics have strong corporate social responsibility, which involves maintaining a global vision in all actions to contribute towards improving the planet.

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Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights within their sphere of influence.

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Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

Environment

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Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.

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Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.

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Businesses should encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

Labour regulations

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Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

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Businesses should uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour.

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Businesses should uphold the effective abolition of child labour.

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Businesses should uphold the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

Fight corruption

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Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.