SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY

Alpargatas shares the modern view that companies can and ought to contribute to build a better world. From its offices and production plants, where the company tries to assure the welfare of its employees up to the communities assisted by Instituto Alpargatas (Alpargatas Institute), that has the mission to improve the education of children and teens, from 7 to 17 years old, via sports.
The employees’s satisfaction, customers’s fidelity, the good relationship with suppliers, investors, and government, the community’s support, and the respect for the environment are odd features obtained through the practice of social responsibility, required to assure the continuance of the business. These goals are reached through ethic coherence of actions and relations of the company with its diverse public, contributing for the continuous improvement of people and communities.
For Alpargatas, to manage a business under social responsibility view is indispensable for those who think about sustentation and in the long term.