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Read the letter from Ian Cook. Chairman, President and CEO. Respecting the World Around Us: Living Our Values for Sustainability
As a Company that strives to be the best truly global consumer products company, we are committed to doing business with integrity and respect for all people and for the world around us. Our long-term sustainability strategy is focused on three areas: People, Performance and Planet.
Colgate people, consumers, communities, business partners, shareholders and other stakeholders are vital to Colgate's success and future growth. Read more about Respect for People.
At Colgate, we are committed to continuing to meet or exceed financial expectations of our stakeholders. Read more about Company Performance.
A cleaner, healthy environment is important to Colgate not only because it's the right thing to do but also because it makes good business sense. Read more about Respect for Our Planet.
Colgate is pleased to be recognized for progress on its sustainability journey. Following are two of the many organizations that have recognized us. To review the other organizations that have recognized us please click here.  Colgate-Palmolive is a component of the 2009/2010 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.  Colgate-Palmolive was included on Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index in 2008 and 2009. |
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Colgate was the first in our industry to begin using post-consumer recycled PET in Europe.
