International solidarity

Orkla wishes to donate part of its profits to selected social causes. With the Group’s resources we can support institutions, issues and persons that we consider to be in need of and deserving of assistance, and which do not receive sufficient public or other support.



It is natural to regard sponsorship as an instrument in Orkla’s overall communication activities. The Group’s sponsorship is a supplement to the marketing and brand-building activities of individual companies.

Through its sponsorship agreements, Orkla seeks to create opportunities, identification, enthusiasm, respect and credibility both within and outside the organisation.

At Group level, Orkla focuses on sponsorship agreements related to the arts and society that do not naturally fit into subsidiaries’ social relationships with their own customers, employees and local communities.

Borregaard has also contributed support to a school project in South Africa, not far from the company's factory plant in Durban.

 

Here is a list of Orkla's humanitarian contributions:

  • Orkla has donated NOK 17million to SOS Children's Villages since 2000.
  • NOK 1.5 million was spent on the Orkla house in the children's village in St. Petersburg, which was opened on 2 July 2000.
  • NOK 1.8 million was spent on two Orkla houses in the children's village in Valmiera, Latvia, which was opened on 25 August 2007.
  • NOK 7.7 millions was spent on the Orkla children's village in Kandalaksha south of Murmansk, opened in August 2004.
  • Orkla is a main sponsor for SOS Children's Villages through the LINK sponsorship programme.
  • Orkla employees have so far collected approximately NOK 400,000 by arranging a variety of activities.
  • The main sponsorship agreement continued in 2003-2009 amounted to NOK 1 million per year.


Other humanitarian contributions

  • Orkla and Orkla companies contributed more than NOK 1.3 million for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. Most of the funds were donated to the Norwegian Red Cross.
  • Orkla’s Head Office is a corporate sponsor of Save the Children Norway (Redd Barna).
  • The Orkla Group support the Norwegian Red Cross fund-raising truck-campaign.
  • In 2004 Orkla financed one of the trucks for an aid shipment and active humanitarian service in Darfur, also under the auspices of the Norwegian Red Cross.
  • In 2005 Orkla supported the Norwegian Red Cross and Norwegian Church Aid fund-raising campaign by financing an M6 truck for active humanitarian service in Niger.
  • In autumn 2006 Orkla continued to support the Norwegian Red Cross fund-raising truck-campaign by financing 2 trucks for active humanitarian service, this year in Libanon and Israel.

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