Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility of the T-HT Group is an integral part of its overall business operations. The Group shows its responsibility of a strong and successful company towards the society in which it operates through a number of activities. What all donation projects in which the Group participates have in common is the orientation towards humanitarian issues, education and projects in which modern technologies represent the basic component. Most projects are long-term projects, which ensures their better efficiency and many of them are both internal and external in nature, which means that T-HT’s employees directly engage in providing support to the community. The implementation of the defined environmental protection strategy has a special place in responsibility guidelines. T-HT’s leadership is reflected in its involvement in digitalization projects in the society and its provision of company’s resources for socially useful purposes. Its presence in the community is also evidenced by a number of sponsorships realized within the Group.

"Corporate social responsibility is fully integrated in the long-term strategy of the T-HT Group towards all its stakeholders. We have also a well-elaborated policy of environmental protection, and we have committed ourselves to the principles of United Nations Global Compact" said Ivica Mudrinić, CEO T-HT.

On 20 December, Croatian Telecom was granted membership, for a second consecutive year, in the CEERIUS Sustainability Index for 2011, the sustainability index of the Vienna Stock Exchange for the CEE region composed of the shares of the leading companies in reference to social and ecological quality, as well as economic performance. The index is based on integrated assessment of sustainable company operations conducted by the Austrian company rfu - Reinhard Friesenbichler Business Consulting, specialized in sustainability research and consulting of institutional investors, companies and organizations.

In December 2009 HT was granted membership in the CEERIUS Sustainability Index for the first time, for the year 2010.

The agency Oekom Research AG, one of the leading world agencies for the research and analysis of ratings used for the creation of the basic starting points in the segment of sustainable development and investments, classified T-HT, on the basis of the conducted research and analysis, to the PRIME category of companies. This means that investments into T-HT shares are assessed as socially and ecologically basic investments and, as such, are recommended to clients.