Mission & Culture

Vision

Sun Gro's vision is to be the leading supplier of superior quality plant growing products in North America.

Mission Statement

We will achieve our vision by focusing on customer and employee satisfaction and enhancing unitholder value. We will passionately pursue continuous improvements in all aspects of our business through team design. Our responsibility to our unitholders is to deliver sustainable and improving cash flow.

Core Values

We will be a customer driven organization by:

• Exceeding customer expectations.
• Developing long-term supply agreements with strategic customers.
• Creating new products and new markets.
• Forming relationships with our customers at all levels of our organization.
• Becoming the supplier of choice to the leading distributors in our industry.

We are committed to employee engagement, satisfaction and quality of worklife by:

• Making safety our No. 1 priority for all employees.
• Maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Cultivating an interdependent environment that provides for self-empowerment and self-regulation.
• Providing opportunities for learning and skill development.
• Creating an environment in which to have fun.
• Paying fair and equitable compensation based on individual and team results.
• Supporting team design with education and training.

All employees at all levels of the organization have the following responsibilities to our unitholders:

• Conducting business in an ethical and legal manner consistent with our Code of Business Conduct.
• Being a role model for the core values of our company.
• Embracing and managing change.
• Promoting open, respectful, two-way communication.
• Having a bias for action.
• Encouraging innovation, initiative and calculated risk taking.
• Promoting team design and team development.
• Supporting common goals and objectives.
• Making decisions at the most appropriate levels.
• Recognizing and accepting our responsibilities to enhance and protect the environment, land, facilities and communities in which we operate.
• Developing and implementing company, regional and site best practices.

Our performance needs to drive results that make Sun Gro Horticulture attractive to unitholders by:

• Consistently meeting business plan objectives.
• Continuously improving our return on sales and distributable cash.
• Making accretive acquisitions.
• Utilizing capital effectively.