Corporate Social Responsibility
We are aware of our involvement with the environment, which increases our social responsibility and concerns about the future. Through various sponsorships and humanitarian campaigns, we seek to give back to the environment a part of what we take each year. We respond to the needs of local communities and the broad social environment in which we operate. We fund the development of sports, culture, education, and environmental projects.
The concept of a main humanitarian campaign was transferred to the new markets as well. In doing so we show that we are sensitive to the distress felt by people in their every-day lives and that we care for the environment in which we operate.
Main humanitarian campaigns
Since 1999, our main humanitarian campaigns were concentrated to significantly contribute in solving some of the most precarious issues in our society.
Previous Mercator’s Main humanitarian campaigns
In the campaign From good words to good deeds Mercator sought to strengthen the awareness that we have to help neighbors in need. Therefore, Mercator called on all people of good will to put a good word on our web page, and we arranged good acts have grown from those words and intentions granting a donation for emergency assistance to almost a hundred thousand people in need.
Environmentally friendly neighbour was Mercator’s campaign to reduce the use of plastic shopping bags by donating a big permanent shopping bag to each household in Slovenia. From then on, the majority of shoppers in Slovenia started using permanent shopping bags more and more.
We love life was the campaign in which Mercator donated a new magnetic resonance system to the Neurological clinic of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana. The new apparatus has reduced waiting time for the necessary procedures and to helps thousands of people. At the time of the campaign we asked our customers what's most important in life. Their thoughts were published on our website, the majority said most important are health and family.
The donation of the central Oton Župančič Library to the City of Ljubljana represented the highest donation in company's history. This donation represented the completion of two years of humanitarian campaign under the slogan "Reading connects”.
In 2005, Mercator's central humanitarian campaign, the M knjiga (M-Book) project, was dedicated to encouraging reading among the youth. By donating 12 book collections comprising 12 best-selling books from Slovenian writers to 500 primary school libraries and to 60 general education libraries all over Slovenia, better access to quality literature dealing with current and interesting subjects was offered to the young.
Association of Slovenia through the "Shelter Home" humanitarian campaign, helping them set up a safe-house intended for children who have been taken from their parents by court order and are now waiting for a foster family or adoption.
The humanitarian campaign "Open your eyes" was dedicated to the Oncology Institute of Ljubljana and assisted in the purchase of a Varian GammaMed Plus, a device for cancer treatment. We donated to the Friends of Youth
The campaign "May the happiness be born" helped where new life was born. We purchased, or assisted in purchasing, new ultra-sound devices, cardiotachographs, hospital beds, and other medical equipment for fourteen Slovenian maternity hospitals.
Through the campaign "You are my love", we purchased ambulance cars for six first-aid stations in Slovenia, and enabled timely medical treatment and transportation to hospitals.
The campaign "A thousand happy faces" included donation of funds to seven centers and institutions providing care and education for people with special needs.
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