BAT Vietnam - Delivering a positive social impact
As a global business, we deliver a positive social impact, both for our employees and people across our supply chain. We are building A Better Tomorrow™ for all our stakeholders – from enhancing farmer livelihoods and promoting human rights to creating a diverse, inclusive culture.
Human rights
Our business and supply chain touch several industries with important human rights impacts. We are committed to respect the human rights of our employees, the people we work with and the communities in which we operate.
We have already reach zero percent child labour and forced labour in Vietnam, and guarantee to maintain in our tobacco supply chain. All our product materials suppliers and high-risk indirect service suppliers will have undergone at least one independent labour audit within a three-year cycle by 2025.
Farmer livelihoods
Rural poverty is recognised as a primary root cause for issues such as child and forced labour, as well as poor safety and environmental standards. Enhancing farmer livelihoods helps tackle such issues and strengthen our supply chain. We are committed to working to enable prosperous livelihoods for all farmers in our tobacco supply chain.
Our management approach
Our operations: Our leaf agronomy team develops innovative farming techniques and technologies, deployed to our contracted farmers by our Farmer Sustainability Management program. These include innovative technologies and hybrid tobacco seed varieties that offer greater yields and higher quality, helping boost farmers’ profits.
Our supply chain: We provide support for our contracted farmers, helping to enhance their livelihoods and food security. And our wider community programmes help to build long-term resilience in farming communities.
Read more about our approach to farmer livelihoods at: BAT Vietnam - Annual Sustainability Report .
Health and safety
Health and safety risks can have serious impacts on our employees, contractors and contracted farmers. They can also interrupt Group operations if not effectively addressed. We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all our workers. Our ambition is for zero accidents Group-wide.
Our management approach
Our operations: We commit to providing a safe working environment for all our employees and contractors. Our risk-based approach to managing workplace safety enables us to focus and prioritise our efforts. We regularly deliver training to minimise and manage health and safety risks.
Our supply chain: Our operational standard for personal protective equipment (PPE) in tobacco farming requires the mandatory provision of PPE to all our contracted farmers and workers for agrochemical use and harvesting, as well as training and monitoring to ensure effectiveness. We ask our third-party tobacco suppliers to guarantee that our standards have been implemented within their own practices and operations.
Read more about our approach to health and safety at: BAT Vietnam - Annual Sustainability Report .
People and culture
Attracting and retaining an increasingly diverse workforce and providing a welcoming, inclusive working environment are key drivers in BAT’s transformation journey to build A Better Tomorrow™. By 2025, we aim to increase the proportion of women in management roles to 45% and we succeeded in achieving this goal by reaching the proportion of 47% in 2024.
Our management approach
Our operations: Our Core Values guide and empower our behaviours across the Group. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we drive ownership and accountability, build diverse talent pipelines and create enablers, underpinned by an inclusive culture. We listen to, and learn from, our people through a range of well-established engagement channels.
Our supply chain: We support equality campaigns and events that showcase best practice and provide platforms for role models to amplify their profiles. Examples include our campaigns for International Women’s Day, and becoming signatories of our culture. Regard to benchmark, by 2021 BAT Vietnam have reached woman leadership of 39% and grow to 47% by 2025.
Read more about our approach to people and culture at: BAT Vietnam - Annual Sustainability Report .
BAT Vietnam’s highlights for 2025
- 1,700 farmers in BAT’s Viet Nam supply chain engaged with zero deforestation and sustainable sources.
- 100% farmer achieved the living income requirement
- Committed 0% working accident across the group. No child labour & forced labour.
- Approaching technical technology such as drip irrigation system to save water, Loose Leaf barn expending to reduce curing fuels and conducted 2 trials for Electricity curing barn (100% electricity & automation) with good result for expanding coming crop.