SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Community Involvement
Ryan’s built its business and reputation in the vending industry by being honest and truthful, with a desire to give back to the communities that we lived and worked in. We take pride in our achievements and are committed to on-going social responsibility initiatives. Over the years we have partnered with many local organizations, charities, schools, and sports teams.
Previous and current initiatives include:
Scholarships and Bursaries to various BC schools
Sponsorship of local sports teams
Canadian Little League Championships
United Way
Children’s Christmas Charities
Product donations for school events and community BBQs
Equity and Diversity
Our team is comprised of diverse backgrounds reflective of Canada’s diverse and multi-cultural nature. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity, and representing a variety of diverse backgrounds. We ensure a safe and collaborative work environment and provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected right. We encourage you to apply and join our team of diverse professionals.
Healthy Choices
At Ryan’s we feel it is Socially Responsible to provide healthy food and drink choices in our product menus and we take this responsibility seriously. Years before our provincial government created the guidelines for healthy foods in public buildings and schools, Ryan’s was already providing dietician approved products in their machines. We felt it was important because we believe eating right is everybody’s business.
Part of being Socially Responsible is doing the right thing for the greater good of the community. We realize we can play an important role in fostering healthy eating habits in kids and adults and our machines reflect our desire and ability to do so. Look for healthy options in our machines today.
Environmental Initiatives
We recognize the need for environmental awareness and want to reduce the impact we have in our business operations. We have implemented a variety of environmental initiatives to reduce our environmental impact such as improved Recycling measures, Fuel Efficiency, a Carbon Neutral plan, and meeting client requests for canned products instead of plastic where possible.
We improved our recycling program by introducing a wide variety of bins to recycle numerous products, we donate products and contract to companies that can re-use and recycle products we are unable to.
To improve fuel efficiency, we use technology to reduce the number of stops our drivers make each day, decreasing vehicles on the road and reducing fuel consumed each year. In conjunction with technological investments, we purchased the most fuel-efficient vehicles we could find and soon had a new fleet of trucks and hybrid management vehicles.
January 2010 Ryan Company Ltd. officially became carbon neutral. To achieve this, required months of research to quantify our carbon footprint. We hired a Sustainability Coordinator and by purchasing carbon offsets we made a financial commitment to become Carbon neutral.
With the help of our partners Ryan’s has increased our understanding of what it means to be more sustainable and environmentally conscious and we will continue to work with our clients and employees to reduce, re-use and recycle.
