The North West Company (NWC) recognizes the importance of listening and engaging with our stakeholders1 as an important pathway to improve our business activity and efforts towards sustainability2. Listening and learning from different groups of people and individuals is an essential component to our continuous improvement. The purpose of this survey is to help us understand your opinions and priorities about which Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)3 topics are the most important to you, in relation to NWC business activity. Specifically, we look forward to hearing from you and understanding how important it is for you that NWC contributes to address specific environmental, social and governance topics.
Please take a moment to read the questions carefully and consider answering the survey. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to finish.
Disclaimer: All answers will be completely anonymous and will not be published or linked to you personally. The responses will only be used for our internal analysis of material topics4 at NWC and not used for any other purpose. By participating in this survey, you consent to the use of the gathered answers only for NWC research.
[1] We define stakeholders as groups or individuals who are impacted by our operations and corporate strategy.
[2] We define sustainability as the process of increasing our business value by integrating strategic and operational actions that consider environmental, social and economic factors.
[3] We define ESG as a framework to better identify, manage and communicate environmental, social and governance risks that are important and significant to our stakeholders and our company.
[4] Material topics are defined as topics that represent the organization’s most significant impacts on the economy, environment, and people, including impacts on their human rights (Global Reporting Initiative, 2022).