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Strategic Report
Strategic priorities:
Connecting with consumers
Movement:
Corporate Governance
Building brands
No change
Accounts
Driving efficiency
Increased
Net risk
rating
Risk
Impact
Gross risk movement during the year
Controls and mitigating actions
Inability to protect the
Group’s intellectual
property rights
Failure to protect the Group’s intellectual
property rights could result in a loss of
brand value.
No change
The Group invests considerable effort in
proactively protecting its intellectual property
rights, for example through trademark and
design registrations and vigorous legal
enforcement as and when required.
Moderate
Adverse publicity in
relation to the soft
drinks industry, the
Group or its brands
Adverse publicity in relation to the soft
drinks industry, the Group or its brands
could have an adverse impact on the
Group’s reputation, consumer consumption
patterns, sales and operating profits.
No change
Our risk management process is designed to
identify and monitor events that may impact
the Group as a result of adverse publicity and
to ensure that controls are in place to manage
these risks.
Moderate
Building trust
Decreased
New
Net risk movement
during the year
Processes are in place to ensure compliance with
health and safety legislation and ethical working
standards, and these are regularly reviewed by
the Board and Executive Committee. Quality
standards are well defined, implemented and
monitored. Our environmental commitments
are being progressed through our NTTW
environmental sustainability programme –
further details are set out above. The Group
maintains and develops ISO 9001 and 14001
systems and AA+ BRC standards which are
subject to annual external audits, with any
non-conformances addressed in a timely
manner. The Company also holds ISO 45001
certification.
We are committed to providing clear calorie and
nutritional information on our packs and/or our
websites to help consumers choose products that
are right for them. We are long-standing users
of the UK Government’s voluntary front of pack
nutritional labelling scheme.
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