Central Group is committed to creating shared value alongside stakeholders, focusing on long-term effectiveness throughout the value chain. We take action to integrate community, economic, and environmental development, thereby improving people's well-being and preserving and promoting local identities for sustainable development.
Our Framework
Aligned to the corporate strategy, our sustainability framework is built around 4 focus areas, which address major economic, social, environmental trends in order to create shared values for stakeholders.
People
Improve people’s well-being and develop human resource competency
Prosperity
Prioritize long-term organizational prosperity through highest standard of governance
Planet
Ensure that the company become stewards of the environment and the planet
Peace & Partnerships
Strengthen engagement and partnership with community to create social value
Central Group commits to be a Net Zero company by 2050
Central Group Goals 2030
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Restore Over
Hectares of Green Area
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Generate
Million USD Community Income
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Divert
of Waste to Landfills
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Reduce
of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Our Foundations
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Samrit Chirathivat established the Tiang Chirathivat Foundation on 5 June 1984 in memory of his father, Tiang, who had founded Harng Central Department Store.
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The Environmental Foundation was founded in 1992 to help create and promote awareness of the need for environmental conservation and sustainable resource management. Central Group is committed to being a role model for sustainable development, and in 2018 announced the Central Group Love the Earth campaign.