This year, in link with our Give B(l)ack Friday initiative, we ran a fundraiser for tree planting organisations. Over the weekend of Black Friday, €1 from each of our hand creams sold has been donated to Hometree in Ireland.
We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to your purchases in Ireland, we raised €10,000 for Hometree, which will be used for planting 1,200 trees, install 2 beehives and 2 seed tunnels. Thank you everyone who purchased our hand creams over the Black Friday weekend and for raising funds for such an amazing cause!
The UK & Ireland Flagship team are delighted to transport you to Provence with their latest window display. We worked with eco-friendly supplier Ecobooth to create this magical Christmas Provencal landscape. This display celebrates our ongoing commitment to respecting biodiversity. The display was created using FSC Woodland trust approved wood, non-toxic glue and paints, organic sustainable sourced dried ingredients and reusable LED lights. Our signature hot air balloons float in the sky carrying presents, bringing to life the theme of this year’s Christmas “Gift the Magic of Provence, from our fields to your home”.
Thanks to your purchases of our Caring for Sight collections and contributions from employee fundraisers and the L’Occitane foundation, we are delighted to announce we have raised £25,945 in the UK for UNICEF, and in Ireland €20,000 for Sightsavers. These funds will go towards fighting avoidable blindness in children. Thank you to everyone who participated in raising funds for an amazing cause!
L’OCCITANE has delivered a million care products in support of healthcare workers. This milestone is emblematic of the many initiatives that the Group’s brands and subsidiaries have undertaken around the world to support healthcare workers, along with partners and local communities, through the coronavirus epidemic.
L’OCCITANE has announced the launch of a global parental leave policy to support families of all shapes and sizes. The new policy gives primary caregivers a minimum of 20 weeks’ fully paid leave and secondary caregivers a minimum of 12 weeks’ fully paid leave to bond with their new child. It will apply to L’OCCITANE employees worldwide – across its offices, factories and owned retail stores – whether the child is welcomed by birth or through adoption or surrogacy.
The new parental leave policy seeks to empower all employees and their families. It directly promotes health and well-being through equal opportunities in the workplace and fairer gender relations within the family.
As a pioneer in beauty and well-being products using natural ingredients, L’OCCITANE has decided to reassign some of its facilities to manufacture 70,000 litres of hand sanitiser. 20,000 of which have been distributed in hospitals across the UK. 12,000 hand creams have also been given to NHS/HSE staff across UK and IE.
We are all in this together :)
Respect for the environment is at the heart of L’OCCITANE, that’s why we’ve partnered with TerraCycle® to provide a collection and recycling programme for our customers to be able to simply recycle their empties at any of the L’OCCITANE boutiques.