In recent months Shell was offering free coffee to front-line heroes fighting coronavirus – doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, military, police officers, truck drivers visiting its filling stations.

More than 15,000 Shell filling stations in 30 countries joined the initiative globally. In Hungary, Shell thanked the work of the not-everyday heroes, who do their job tirelessly every day – with a total of 38,965 coffees. The cappuccino or espresso as a gift was just a small thing during these extraordinary days, but for those who travelled, worked even more because of the situation, it meant caring thoughtfulness.

Shell filling stations will continue to welcome customers well prepared for the epidemiological situation. The surfaces continue to be disinfected several times a day, a plexiglass is placed at the cashier desk, and staff of the filling station welcomes customers in mask and rubber gloves.

As you know, our country has done a fantastic job of responding to the initial needs related to fighting the coronavirus. We’ve been supporting Budapest Bike Maffia, that is raising the flag for one of the most vulnerable part of the society, the homeless people and to the Szt. Miklós Orphanage in Budapest, thanks to the Netherlands-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce. ING Amsterdam accepted our request to support BBM, therefore a EUR 6,000 donation has been approved already.

But the coronavirus is spreading around the world. The intense pressure we’ve seen in countries with well-developed healthcare systems shows the catastrophic impact the virus could have in countries with weak health and sanitation resources. The global community needs our support to reach the most vulnerable people, wherever they are, to halt the spread of the virus and help those affected by it.

Children and their families living in poverty are among the most vulnerable, as they’re less likely to have access to critical medical and sanitation services. Most countries have closed schools, which means that 1.5 billion students are housebound and missing out on the support services schools offer, like lunches. Even when schools reopen, there are 900 million children worldwide who can’t wash their hands with soap at their school, increasing their risk of exposure to diseases like the coronavirus.

ING wants to help. Given our 15-year partnership with UNICEF, we’ve joined together again now to raise funds for their efforts to help children and vulnerable groups across 136 countries affected by the coronavirus. This includes promoting handwashing, hygiene and social distancing to slow the virus’s transmission; providing critical medical and hygiene supplies; and ensuring continuity of health, education and social services for children and their caregivers. ING will match the funds raised up to €1 million.

What does this mean for you? That you can help if you want to. If you haven’t donated anything yet, consider donating now. If you’ve already donated, consider donating again to UNICEF to help support the world’s most vulnerable groups. You can also become an ambassador for this campaign and rally your professional and personal contacts to donate as well. ING will match each donation.

The donation page is available here.

Together we can make a difference and help some of the world’s most vulnerable groups in the fight against the coronavirus. We have forwarded this letter to our staff, clients and to our vendors also.

Kind regards,

Tibor Bodor

Country Manager, CEO

Everyone is facing a serious challenge in the economic recovery from the health crisis.
We need a more simple, more transparent, and faster and, above all, more cost-effective value flow
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strengthened by optimizing our resources, and our non-value-producing processes must be reduced
to the essential level.

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Energy appears as a cost in a significant part of your value-creating processes. Nowadays, it is very
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your energy traders in time to sell the excess energy.
 Review how you can reduce your reserved capacities and thus your fixed monthly costs.
 Optimize your power supply systems, supplying only the areas they use.
 Explore the losses of your energy systems.
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professional, scheduled maintenance, repair and renewal.
 Change your operation habits to reduce your energy consumption.
 Implement the necessary exchanges and investments that can significantly increase your energy
efficiency while taking further steps to protect our environment.
 Use alternative energy-based solutions instead of fossil ones.
How can we help you with this job?
 By energy consultancy, reviewing your energy supply contracts and exploring the possibilities of
optimizing the reserved capacities
 By redesigning your energy systems, working out an optimization and loss analysis proposal
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 By carrying out the necessary building engineering alterations, in which case we can even take the
burden of financing the investment off your shoulders, with one of the following options:

•  You can produce ELECTRICITY IN A GREENER, CHEAPER WAY, WITHOUT OWN
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Our expertise can truly be part of the economic recovery, due to the following
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 immediately results in cost reductions,
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We offer co-operation, collaboration, knowledge share in a sincere,
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Henkel is stepping up its commitment for sustainability and has set further ambitious packaging targets for 2025 to promote a circular economy. By then, 100 percent of Henkel’s packaging will be recyclable or reusable* and the company will reduce fossil-based virgin plastics by 50 percent in its consumer goods packaging. Additionally, Henkel wants to contribute to avoiding plastic waste being disposed in the environment.

As a global consumer goods company, Henkel wants to foster a circular economy – meaning that packaging materials remain in economic cycles as long as possible and do not end up in the environment. Henkel has already made many advances in the field of sustainable packaging. For example, the company further increased the share of recycled plastic in its packaging and a number of Henkel’s packaging already consists of 100 percent recycled material. With its new ambitious packaging strategy, Henkel strives to use material from sustainable sources and develop smart designs to close the loop.

“Packaging and plastic have captured the attention of the public, governments, and businesses around the world more than ever – plastic waste ending in the environment is one of the greatest global challenges. The search for solutions is well underway, and our packaging experts are working intensively to deliver on our ambitious targets,” says Sylvie Nicol, Executive Vice President Human Resources at Henkel and Chair of Henkel’s Sustainability Council. “To drive further progress and promote a circular economy, we are working closely together with our partners along the entire value chain.”

New packaging targets for 2025: 100 / 50 / Zero

Henkel’s commitment to sustainable packaging is reinforced by new, even more ambitious targets:

• 100 percent recyclable or reusable*: By 2025, all packaging material will be recyclable or reusable; today the company is already at 85 percent. The main aim is to overcome the recycling hurdles specific to each packaging category – for example, by introducing solutions for multi-layer flexible or black packaging. Henkel is working on these challenges in cross-industry partnerships such as CEFLEX, a consortium of more than 130 companies and organizations aiming to enable flexible packaging to be recycled.
• 50 percent less fossil plastic: Henkel wants to reduce the amount of virgin plastic from fossil sources in the consumer goods businesses Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care by 50 percent – by reducing the volume of packaging, through increasing the proportion of recycled material in its consumer goods packaging to more than 30 percent globally and by using bio-based plastics.
• Zero waste: Henkel wants to help prevent waste from being disposed into the environment. Therefore, the company is supporting waste collection and recycling initiatives and invests in innovative solutions and technologies to promote closed-loop recycling. Examples are Henkel’s long-term partnership with social enterprise Plastic Bank or the company’s membership in the global Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Additionally, Henkel aims to support its consumers in responsible usage and disposal of its products. Each year, the company wants to reach more than 2 billion consumer contacts by providing targeted information about recycling and correct waste disposal, for example through dedicated icons on the packaging.

More information can be found at www.henkel.com/plastic.

Wage supplement and extraordinary benefit for all Nestlé Hungária production and supply chain employees, but the company also plays an important role in helping people in need. Nestlé joins forces with the International Federation of the Red Cross and its national associations and donates CHF 10 million to support their work. Its Hungarian subsidiary adds a donation worth about HUF 100 million to help people in need and support the efforts of healthcare workers.

Nestlé Hungária introduced exceptional wage benefits in the extraordinary situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic. On top of the 10% wage supplement on average, company employees in production and the supply chain receive, among others, wage guarantee, moratorium on company loans, free meals as well as additional wage supplement for the time of sick-pay and sick-leave in the next three months. The key tasks of the good giant right now, besides retaining workplaces, is to ensure uninterrupted production and satisfy the demands of consumers.

As one of the largest food producers in Hungary, the priority strategic duty of Nestlé Hungária is to ensure the continuous supply of food and pet food products to its consumers. At the same time, it must first and foremost safeguard the health and financial security of its employees. For this purpose, on top of the strict hygiene regulations implemented in the past weeks, Nestlé Hungária introduced an extraordinary salary and benefit package for its production and supply chain frontline employees with a retroactive effect from 01 April.

All Nestlé and hired employees in Hungarian production facilities and warehouses will receive a wage supplement of HUF 1,800 gross for 8-hour shifts and HUF 2,400 gross for 12-hour shifts for each day worked on top of their base wages, shift supplements and other extras as part of the package. This may result in up to 20% salary increase for production line operators in Nestlé’s Hungarian factories.

“I am immensely grateful for my colleagues for working in the frontline in this extremely difficult situation to ensure the continuous food supply of communities. We take all efforts at Nestlé to provide for our active employees and also those who cannot attend their work duties due to the current circumstances.” said Péter Noszek, managing director of Nestlé Hungária. “Besides staying safe and healthy, the financial security of our employees is our top priority. This is why we considered it necessary to introduce additional benefits as soon as possible” he added.

10 million CHF and 12 tonnes of chocolate

Nestlé joins forces with the International Federation of the Red Cross and its national associations and donates CHF 10 million to support their work. Its Hungarian subsidiary adds a donation worth about HUF 100 million to help people in need and support the efforts of healthcare workers. Nestlé Hungária offered seasonal products and 12 tonnes of Easter chocolate to the Hungarian Food Bank to make the days of families in need easier. The company also distributes product and cash donations in support of the work of healthcare workers and the Hungarian Red Cross.
Besides cooperating with the Food Bank, the company has recently given further support to healthcare professionals by sending two lorries of products, including coffee, coffee machines, chocolate and other delicacies to the medical staff of Szent László Hospital. Nestlé Hungária also provides financial support to the Red Cross, another strategic partner. Nestlé employees may decide to waive a part of their salary in favour of the Hungarian Red Cross, which the company will forward and match 1:1.