Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

As the leading European cold storage provider, our people play a vital role in our success. Our colleagues across Europe come from many different backgrounds, with diverse histories, abilities and experiences.

What EDI means to us

Equality

Equality means that all people should have equal rights and opportunities. This is achieved by ensuring fair treatment for all and ensuring that those who may be disadvantaged can get the tools they need to access the same, fair opportunities as their peers.

Diversity

Diversity means understanding that everyone is unique, and embracing people’s differences including their beliefs, abilities, preferences, backgrounds, values, and identities. We aim to bring together people with diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences at all levels of the business.

Inclusion

Inclusion means that all people within the business, without exception, feel included, respected and valued.

Our key objectives on EDI

Our aim is to ensure that we provide equal rights and opportunities to all our employees, embrace the full spectrum of diversity within our business and the wider community, and ensure an inclusive environment for all our staff. We are achieving this through three key areas:

Policies, processes, and training

We already have a robust set of policies and processes in place, including a group-wide EDI policy and Ethics in Business policy with zero tolerance for discrimination, and a secure whistleblowing and grievance process that allows for confidential or anonymous reporting.

We are supplementing these policies and processes with relevant training for our managers and employees, for example on unconscious bias to ensure fair and consistent treatment in the interview process.

Diverse employee voice

We aim to foster an open and collaborate environment in the workplace, to ensure that all voices are heard. We provide several formal forums locally as well as an anonymous 3rd party engagement survey for all employees to provide feedback.

We are committed to ensuring that our diverse employees have a voice in the company. We are committed to ensuring sufficient representation from diverse groups on our employee forums, and we are also planning to start employee-led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to provide a community and a voice for these diverse groups.

Partnerships

We have partnered with a number of initiatives and organisations to support Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within our business and the wider industry. We aim to explore partnerships with other relevant organisations that support our EDI goals.

These include:

Women in Cold Chain

Constellation is one of the founding sponsors of the Women in Cold Chain initiative. The initiative aims to support gender diversity and encourage more women to consider a career within the industry.

Lidwina

Constellation has partnered with Lidwina in Belgium to enable people with disabilities or other barriers to employment find meaningful work in our organisation. Through this programme, we are ensuring equality of opportunity and embracing diversity.