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The Inclusive Sourcing program
What is the Inclusive Sourcing program?
At L'Oréal Groupe, our purpose is to create the beauty that moves the world.
This means not only developing innovative and desirable products, but also building a business that is both sustainable and inclusive.
Our Inclusive Sourcing program, launched in 2010, stands as a testament to this commitment. It contributes to the way we support the communities we operate with, as part of our L’Oréal For The Future program.
L’Oréal has decided to use its purchasing influence to have a positive impact to go beyond its direct footprint, within our extended ecosystem of suppliers.
The ambition of the program is to associate business performance with positive social impact.
L'Oréal’s Inclusive Sourcing program directs a proportion of our Global purchases to suppliers who employ people from socio-economic vulnerable communities, who are often excluded from the labor market, to allow them to have durable access to work and income.
The program also aims to support companies that traditionally do not have access to large calls for tenders of multinational companies.
The Inclusive Sourcing program supports for example fair-trade producers, people with disabilities, senior workers, refugees, social insertion enterprises, women-owned businesses...It aims to promote social inclusion wherever our suppliers operate: all geographical areas and purchasing categories are concerned.
“If the Inclusive Sourcing program is a success, it’s really thanks to our team and our extended ecosystem. It’s not about the numbers anymore, Inclusion is a natural subject that we work on each and every day.”
Daniel SEH, Chief Procurement Officer
“At L’Oréal, people are at the heart of everything we do, and our values guide our decisions and actions. The Inclusive Sourcing program fosters pride and engagement, as well as resilience and leadership in social innovation, deeply transforming our ecosystem and improving the livelihoods of communities.”
Céline BOMO-LEDUCQ, Chief Purchasing Officer Direct Sourcing of L’Oréal
The program particularly focuses on
Equity for all genders & inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people
Inclusion of people with disabilities
Socio-economic & multicultural diversity
All ages & generations
Inclusive Sourcing program 2024 Achievements
1,245
Projects
69
Countries impacted
880+
Suppliers’ sites involved
106,298
People gained access to work globally
39,840
Women gained access to work through women’s empowerment projects
99
Third parties, including NGOs and associations
Inclusive Sourcing Awards
PSS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AWARD
2022, NORTH ASIA
Global recognition of L'Oréal's Solidarity Sourcing program1 and its social impact by the PSS, one of the world’s three major business procurement summits.
GEEIS-SDG AWARD IN UNITED NATIONS HQ
2019, 2021, INTERNATIONAL
For the L’Oréal Solidarity Sourcing1 contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) notably Gender Equality.
TROPHY DÉFIS RSE IN SOCIAL INCLUSION CATEGORY
2020, FRANCE
L'Oréal was awarded by the Trophée Défis RSE 2020 thanks to the Solidarity Sourcing1 program for social inclusion.
Discover Inclusive Sourcing In Action
Thanks to our supplier commitment, 1,245 local inclusive projects are implemented in 69 countries, supporting 106,000 people. Discover some of our projects.
Empowering socio-economic disadvantaged communities in Brazil
In 2017, L’Oréal developed with the NGO Redes da Maré and a professor of the Observatorio Das Favelas an innovative social tool named ISDS to identify vulnerable people facing social and economic difficulties with the objective to implement the tool within different L'Oréal Operations activities in Brazil.
In 2024, we have enabled 668 people access decent and durable work through the ISDS project in collaboration with our suppliers. This project empowers economically & socially vulnerable people to work on supply chain activities, manufacturing services, facilities activities, retail, IT, packaging components, raw materials and contract manufacturing. This Inclusive Sourcing initiative gives the opportunity to stability, employment, knowledge and better opportunities for the future to vulnerable people.
A variety of key brands contribute to the project.
Packaging production aiming to support the economy in rural areas in France
L'Oréal supports economic activity and promotes local employment in distressed area, such as in France, in rural vulnerable economic zones.
Albéa, a key packaging supplier for L'Oréal, produces coloration tubes for various divisions at its Sainte-Menehould site in the Argonne region, primarily for the L'Oréal Paris and Garnier brands.
This site is located in a zone classified by the French Government as “FRR” (Zone France Ruralités Revitalisation - Rural French Revitalization Zone). The company built this factory in 2013 in this area in order to maintain the employment in the zone which was already vulnerable and then recognized as FRR zone in 2017. in 2024, with Albea and its subcontractors, L’Oréal supported 137 local full time annual jobs in this region.
Key brands contributing to the project: L'Oréal Paris, Garnier, La Roche-Posay
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1 The Inclusive Sourcing program was previously named Solidarity Sourcing program