The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. 2009 Annual Report
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT

OUR GOALS
At The Estée Lauder Companies we are committed to continuously improving our performance and our communication of achievements and challenges to our many stakeholders around the globe. Toward that end, and as part of our larger corporate strategy, we have identified the following preliminary goals and objectives:

OUR GOALS

AREA GOALS
EMPLOYEE SAFETY Achieve a Total Incident Rate (TIR) of 0.5 by fiscal 2012
GLOBAL
PHILANTHROPY
Continue to evolve our practice of High-Touch among the communities we reach by building relationships with global organizations that are dedicated to health and human services, education, the environment and the arts
SUSTAINABLE
PACKAGING
By fiscal 2012, design packaging that enhances and reflects our brands' images while minimizing environmental impact by:
  • Defining brand-specific packaging guidelines
  • Ensuring that 25 percent of our packaging suppliers use renewable energy
  • Increasing use of renewable and recycled content in packaging
  • Developing additional product take-back programs to increase end-of-life recycling of ELC products
RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
Achieve additional certifications regarding biodiversity, environmental and climate impacts of raw materials
ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP
Reduce global energy consumption by 30 percent by fiscal 2010 from a 1999 normalized baseline. Goal is supported by a sustainable projects budget and we will help fund innovative, environmentally advanced technologies. We will continue to:
  • Track and evaluate energy use on a quarterly basis
  • Research and incorporate green energy incentives
  • Generate equipment specifications to improve energy profile at manufacturing and distribution sites
  • Establish Greenhouse Gas emissions goal in fiscal 2010
  • Establish water conservation goal in fiscal 2010
  • Increase recycling rate to 70 percent by fiscal 2012
SUPPLY CHAIN Continue to build on our supplier audit response procedures by early fiscal 2010