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PRAISE TO COCA-COLA İÇECEK ON RESPONSIBILITY
CSR Europe organizes Corporate Social Responsibility Marketplace since 2005 with the participation of European companies. This year the event was introduced in Turkey by CSR Association of Turkey with the theme “Back to school for CSR”. More than 20 companies presented their CSR projects in the event that took place in Kadir Has University.
CSR Association of Turkey President Serdar Dinler declared that they have selected this theme according to Wendell Philips’s finding. “Responsibility educates. We believe responsibility will educate the people, the companies and the states. I believe we will all evolve by learning from other companies’ works on CSR.” said Dinler.
Coca-Cola İçecek Corporate Communications Manager Hande Türker declared that they continue their efforts to introduce the concept of sustainability to other operating geographies like Middle East and Central Asia. “Coca-Cola İçecek was deemed worthy of first prize at the “AccountAbility Ethical Accountability 2008 Turkey Rating” organized by Europe’s leading independent corporate social responsibility and accountability organization AccountAbility. As a regional Turkish company operating in 10 countries with 21 plants and 10,000 employees, in addition to operations in Turkey, we will include Jordan from Middle East and Kazakhstan from Central Asia to our next CSR Report, which will be published at the end of 2009. We aim to lead the development of “sustainability” concept in our operating geographies.” said Türker.