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Community Involvement

Employer and Employees: united to make a difference

From the start, Teva Canada Innovation has been an innovator and has demonstrated its drive to get involved “above and beyond”.

Our employees clearly embrace “the cause” and they show it! They have created Teva Canada Innovation’s COIN (COmmunity INvolvement) team, a committee promoting the personal involvement of our associates in patient health communities through ongoing fundraising events and activities.

One of the major annual events is the Vélotour, a 150 km bike tour organized by the Canadian MS Society. For more than 10 years now, TCI has assembled and sponsored a team composed of employees, family members, friends and business partners who want to take part in the event. The Shared Solutions® team has won multiple prizes for its commitment and achievements during that span. Historically, the team has been, and continues to be recognized for its number of participants, averaging 100 members per year. Last year, with a team of 169 bikers, we raised more than $80,000!

TCI associates also participate in the annual Parkinson Society Superwalk, for which the company has been a gold level sponsor since 2005.

Furthermore, we believe that we have a responsibility that goes beyond the patient population and into the communities where we do business and live as well. A demonstration of this belief is an initiative to directly involve our associates in sharing the company’s success (and their own) with others. This “Pay it Forward” initiative consisted in providing each associate with a $ amount which they were then asked to use to perform random acts of kindness towards strangers. This generated a wave of outreach activity which resulted in creative and remarkable efforts to help different people in ways both big and small. The success of this initiave has lead us to pursue it on an annual basis, through a program we call “The Big Give”, where a selected group of associates (recipients of an award which recognizes their exemplary way of living company values) work together to select a worthy cause to which the company will provide a financial contribution.

Teva Canada Innovation’s environmental mission: small steps toward major improvements

We strongly believe in the notion that many small individual actions can produce significant results and this belief has led us to form a “Green Team” comprised of representatives from all major functions within TCI. The Green Team’s mission is to lead by example and…

• Strive to employ environmental best practices and cultivate an ecologically-sound environment at TCI
• Encourage TCI employees to adopt and create ecologically-friendly initiatives both at home and at work

Since its inception in 2008, the Green Team has implemented “greener” habits in TCI’s work environment, such as the use of ecological supplies and products, the reduction of paper, energy and other resources consumption, the selection of business partners who also support such efforts. We want to pursue our initiatives on an ongoing basis and extend their impact outside of the office, by creating and maintaining awareness among our associates (via newsletters and green events) of our individual and collective moral obligation toward a healthier planet.