The Mexican Center for Philanthropy (Cemefi) granted the distinctive socially responsible company (ESR) to corporate Kosmos for fulfilling satisfactorily the standards established in the field of corporate social responsibility.
This distinction reflects the commitment on the part of the company to grow responsibly, committed to the wellbeing and development of the communities, respecting the environment and, above all, the support that corporate Kosmos provides to the groups more Vulnerable.
The ESR distinctive is given after evaluating four concepts of social responsibility: business ethics; Quality of life in the company; Linkage with the community, and care and preservation of the environment.
This recognition adds value to a company’s operations and identifies at what point it is found to determine new strategies, strengthen existing ones and work in the areas of opportunity.
Consumers are increasingly aware of the importance of social responsibility that companies must maintain in carrying out their production, distribution and sales operations, so it is important that organizations take Successful decisions based on sustainable development.
The support that the Pablo Landsmanas Foundation provides to Mexican society is based on four axes: food, health, education and sustainable development.
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CORPORATE KOSMOS COMMITMENT
Corporate Kosmos and the companies La Cosmopolitana, Esserl and Kol Tov make up the leading group in Mexico in the production, distribution and delivery of food for large social, educational, security and public administration institutions.
Each day delivers more than 3 million of meals, hot and cold, throughout the country, 365 days a year, both in urban areas and small towns with high levels of marginalization, away from large cities and difficult to access.
In addition, corporate Kosmos delivers meals and offers catering, hotel and transportation services on oil rigs in the Sonda de Campeche, as well as in social rehabilitation centres.
For the delivery of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, the companies that make up corporate Kosmos have 9.500 500 collaborators who are specialized and constantly trained to achieve their personal and professional development.
Corporate Kosmos has a presence in 27 States of the Mexican Republic, with more than 30 distribution centers in an area of more than 500.000 square meters, which has wineries, processing areas and refrigerators, from where more than 800 tonnes are supplied Daily meats, fruits, vegetables, groceries and other supplies.
Its logistics system includes a fleet of more than 200 own transports and 300 concession (outsourced) that mobilize raw materials and processed foods to reach the final consumer in time and form. This flotilla carries out 12.000 monthly trips that meet strict quality standards.
Food handling requires special care in order to maintain its nutritional properties, taste and innocuousness. Hygiene in the transfer of food is ensured by an advanced isothermal equipment, as well as refrigerated and dry boxes to conserve food.
On the other hand, the food-processing process is governed by the strictest national and international quality standards of the food service sector, among which the certifications
TIF, HACCP, distinctive H, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 18001, ISO 22000 and ISO 28000, which guarantee the hygiene and safety of food throughout the supply chain; As well as the safety and health of the collaborators and the care of the environment.
For all the above, corporate Kosmos has consolidated its leadership in the niche of food for large and small groups of people serving the federal government, parastatal companies, state governments and philanthropic associations.
SMALL BUSINESS TO CORPORATE GROUP
Corporate Kosmos emerged in 1964 with a small carnage in Mexico City created by Don Pablo Landsmanas, a Lithuanian entrepreneur and philanthropist who migrated very young to Mexico and adopted the country as its second home, dedicating all its capacity, effort and Resources until his death.
The carnage soon began to generate various processed meat products for individuals and companies requesting cuts and special volumes. So it went from dispensing cuts of meat to the distribution of food, which became a new niche market.
In the year 2004 the company had the experience, infrastructure, financial capacity and the conditions to undertake in the business of the industrial canteens. Thanks to the effort and professionalism, he positioned himself as the most reliable company in that specialty.
In 2008 diversified its activities to offer other services of food, catering and hotel in oil platforms and victualling to boats. In this way the business grew vertically and horizontally with a substantial increase in the number of prepared foods delivered and in the care of services linked to food both in the sea and on the ground.
From 2009 he ventured into the elaboration of cold food in packages, popularly known as “box lunches”, and in the delivery of pantries to institutions that required quality services on time on a continuous basis. Currently, 100.000 daily pantries are distributed to cater for about 500.000 people.
In the last decade he has established himself as the undisputed leader in food services in the country, with the commitment to improve day by day to surpass the more than 20 competitors in the industry.
Corporate Kosmos has managed, through the confidence of its customers and consumers, an accelerated growth, always keeping to the forefront in terms of technology, infrastructure and innovation and guaranteeing the quality of its services, always Aware of the well-being of their people and the community.
With 55 years of history, corporate Kosmos has experienced transitions from state and federal governments of all political parties, proving that their passion and commitment is with the more than 20.000 families that directly or indirectly depend on the group and with Mexico.
PABLO LANDSMANAS FOUNDATION
As part of its commitment to Mexican society, corporate Kosmos created the Pablo Landsmanas Foundation in homage to the legacy of its founder, Pablo Landsmanas, who laid the foundations for the development of corporate Kosmos, the group of companies that today consolidates its Leadership in the food service industry.
His efforts are part of the sustainability platform of corporate Kosmos whose aim is to make the company’s actions generate a positive echo in its collaborators, the communities where they operate and the natural environment.
The foundation’s support to Mexican society is based on four axes of action that cover different needs: food, health, education and sustainable development.
Currently, the Pablo Landsmanas Foundation each month delivers more than half a million meals to 23 organizations. Among the benefited groups are adolescent mothers, abandoned children, Holocaust survivors and people with HIV/AIDS or addiction problems.
In order to give back to society a little of what it has provided, corporate Kosmos, through the Pablo Landsmanas Foundation, concentrates its efforts on various actions such as providing nourishment to vulnerable people; Generate development by promoting that people improve their situation through education, work and self-effort; To choose causes that effectively improve people’s lives; Motivate the beneficiaries to become agents of change in the community; and offer opportunities for social reintegration to people who have lost their freedom to offer them new means of earning a living.
Some of the institutions it supports are: Ama food Bank, Messengers of Peace (Casa Xochiquetzal, A. c.), participatory community Tepito (share) and satiating the poor, A. c.), Blossom, fifth Carmelite, House of Salt, way home, fifth Santa Mary, half way San Miguel, Human Being, Cadi, Domus Alipio, Kadima, chain, Casa Hogar Monte Halac, Funfai, House of Saint Francis of Assisi, reborn I. A. P., House of the Mercedes 1, House of the Mercedes 2, House home San Judas Tadeo and daytime secondary school number 320.
Fundación Pablo Landsmanas’s initiatives grow day by day and continue to promote high-impact educational support projects, increasing the number of people benefiting from food and collaborating with new health programs to change the lives of people That require medical interventions.
