Our diverse teams collaborate across locations, functions and business lines to solve problems and serve our customers.
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Across our business units and geographies, HAVI people share a common willingness to pitch in, work together and go the extra mile to deliver for our customers, especially when the unexpected occurs, whether it is a hurricane, a flood, a blizzard or a pandemic. It's a point of pride for us -- an expression of our collective integrity, creativity and belief that if we just work together, we can achieve what seems impossible.
We call this aspect of our culture “Deliver the Promise”– a phrase that dates back to HAVI’s earliest days as a favorite saying of Founder Theodore F. Perlman. It began as a way to express our commitment to deliver supplies on-time to Chicago-area McDonalds restaurants in 1974. As HAVI has grown in scope of service and geography, “Deliver the Promise” has broadened to become a multi-part promise to our customers, our employees and our supplier partners.
We believe in celebrating each other’s achievements, in supporting the betterment of ourselves, and in helping our people to work efficiently and effectively in whatever location they are. This means investing in the right technology and equipment to enable remote work and to provide a safe and efficient work environment in our warehouses and vehicles.
We strive to meet the current and future needs of our employees as their career, financial and family needs evolve. This means supporting changing needs with the right policies and programs, creating virtual experiences, communications and processes that are easy and less stressful; and creating the right work/life balance that enables employees to bring their best to our customers, their colleagues and their families.
HAVI’s unique role across the foodservice value chain brings with it both the responsibility to act and the opportunity to inspire a better future. Guided by Our Better Future Blueprint, we work to care for and uplift our people and communities, protect the environment, invent more sustainable solutions for customers and collaborate to drive systemic change.
to reduce carbon emissions from our operations by 40% per metric ton of goods delivered by 2030.
We believe that breakthrough ideas come from extraordinary people. And to be extraordinary, we need the freedom to be our most authentic selves. At HAVI/TMS, we value authenticity and are accepting of all people. As a company, we're a work-in-progress and will continue to grow and listen to new voices. Because the more voice we have in here, the more people we can reach out there.
At HAVI, we believe that we achieve the best outcomes when people from different backgrounds collaborate, share diverse views and enable us to challenge the status quo, find a more creative solution and propel change.
While we are still a work in progress, our goal is to be representative of the communities in which we operate. We continue to evolve our recruiting and hiring practices to be more inclusive and support the identification of diverse candidates. We encourage the sharing of lived experiences and seek to amplify employee voices by providing multiple channels for ongoing input and feedback.
Our enterprise-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals are to:
- Empower our people with the skills to act inclusively
- Accelerate equal opportunities for career development
- Build a community-wide approach to DE&I
To ensure accountability for the achievement of our DE&I goals, our cross-functional DE&I Council has created a balanced scorecard of metrics to define a clear baseline of where we are today and enable us to measure progress. We are making sure that we take into account the variations that we have across our global operations, so that we establish an overall enterprise umbrella of core measurements, but do not apply a one-size-fits-all definition for every location.
Our focus is to work collaboratively and intentionally to advance diversity efforts and expand HAVI's approach to inclusivity. Voice is at the center of all our DE&I efforts -- listening to different perspectives, better understanding lived experiences and taking action.
HAVI has implemented a DE&I structure and governance to help us to further develop and define specific strategies, actions and commitments, as well as monitor our progress and activity. Our Enterprise Leadership Team (ELT) partners with HAVI’s DE&I Council to set our enterprise inclusion goals and drive our action plans. Our efforts are further aligned and executed by a series of dedicated people and inclusion teams, and employee and community groups.
We create an empowering environment for our people by supporting internal affinity groups where employees are able to join together to share life experiences, provide support, and enhance their personal and professional development.
Many of our ERG groups originated in North America, but as our culture continues to evolve, we are seeing more interest in this activity in locations around the world. The ERGs connect the culture and value contributions of different communities and create an advocacy voice for our:
- Asian professionals (LEAP)
- Black/African American professionals (BOLD)
- Female professionals (HAVI Wise)
- Young professionals (YPN)
HAVI has long recognized the importance of giving back to the communities in which we operate. Our employees around the world contribute time and resources to a variety of global, regional and local charities and relief organizations.
Across our locations, employee groups coordinate community activities, from fund-raising walks and bike rides to beach clean-ups and collections of donated goods. In several regions, we hold a HAVI “Week of Giving” during which employees can take time from work to volunteer for different community organizations.
One of our most long-standing community relationships is with Ronald McDonald House Charities. HAVI employees volunteer regularly for local RMHC chapters around the world to support the work they to do to improve the health and well-being of children and families.
Across our business units and geographies, our work is guided by a common Purpose and our Values.
We have both the responsibility to act and the opportunity to inspire a better future for people, communities and the planet. Our Better Future Blueprint defines our path forward.
Founded in 1974 on a “handshake agreement” with McDonald’s, HAVI has grown in size, global reach, and breadth of services and customers served.