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2014 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT
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2 0 1 4 C O R P O R A T E S O C I A L

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y R E P O R T

© 2015 Jarden Corporation. All rights reserved.

For any questions or inquiries about our CSR program, please contact

[email protected]

Table of Contents

1Message from CSO

2Overview

3Performance Snapshot

4 - 12Sustainability

13 - 16Social Responsibility

17 The Future

It is with great pleasure that I introduce Jarden’s 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. 2014 was a year of great progress for our CSR program with many milestones achieved. As Sustainability continues to shape our daily lives both in and out of the workplace each of our employees are called upon to play a role in supporting our company’s mission to be “Better Tomorrow Than Today”.

A constant theme echoed throughout this year was leadership and engagement. At each of our facilities we saw employees continue to find ways to get involved around Sustainability. From coordinating employee recycling campaigns to planting Monarch Butterfly gardens to optimizing the packaging of our products we continue to see a strong culture of sustainability throughout our organization.

As you read further you will be able to see our Environmental and Social performance which shows how we did year over year in our key performance metrics along with the significant milestones and success stories that helped contribute to our overall performance.

Sincerely,

Jim Bennett

Chief Sustainability Officer, SVP Manufacturing and Quality, Jarden Corporation

A Message from our Chief Sustainability Officer

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Reducing Our

Environmental Footprint

Enhancing The

Community & Employee Well-Being

Minimizing Suppy

Chain Risk

Eliminating Waste

Expanding Our

CSR Reach

OverviewOur CSR Report is published on an annual basis. This report takes a comprehensive look at our Environmental and Social performance. CSR is integrated in to our corporate culture and is embodied in every aspect of our business operations. As responsible corporate stewards our program allows us to improve our own operations while helping us to contribute to improving the global community as a whole.

As Jarden continues to grow our CSR program is positioned to keep pace with that growth. Our CSR program is aligned with Jarden’s unwavering commitment to continue to find unique ways to enhance our brand value, consumer experience and operating results through engaging in environmentally sustainable and socially sensitive business practices.

In 2014 our CSR program made significant advancements in our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with noteworthy milestones that continue to create value for each of our stakeholders.

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Environment

Energy

Greenhouse Gases

Water

Waste

Packaging

Trend

similar performance to 2013

better than 2013

worse than 2013

Below is a performance snapshot illustrating how we are doing relative to our CSR objectives. As you read further, you will find in-depth analyses of objectives along with some of the significant milestones that we have achieved.

Jarden 2014 Performance Snapshot

Social Responsibility

Overall Factory Scorecard Ratings

Transparency

Audit Scores

Trend

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Jarden takes our commitment to operating in a sustainable manner very seriously. We are constantly analyzing our operations to understand how we can reduce our use of natural resources to support our ultimate goal of zero waste. All employees are encouraged to adopt a sustainable mindset where we can all work together to find ways to be “Better Tomorrow Than Today”

The strategic vision for our sustainability program is led by our Chief Sustainability Officer with the support of our Corporate Sustainability council. This council is comprised of a cross-functional group of senior level employees representing all JAH business units. Our council is focused on driving the strategic vision for our sustainability program across the organization. In addition to this at each of our factories we have “Sustainability Champions” that are responsible for leading the tactical efforts of our sustainability program by driving initiatives and fostering employee engagement at their individual sites.

As you read further you will see how we did on our key performance indicators (KPIs) along with some of the success stories that contributed to our program’s success. Our KPIs consist of: Energy, Water, Waste, Packaging and Greenhouse Gas.

Sustainability

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Jarden Sustainability Strategy

Act in an environmentally and socially sensitive way that ensures we meet the needs of our business without compromising the needs of future generations to prosper, while addressing the impact on consumers, business partners and communities.

Jarden Sustainability Mission

Extend Jarden’s product and process innovation by enhancing our brand value, consumer experience and operating results through environmentally sustainable and socially sensitive performance.

SOME KEY MILESTONES OF OUR PROGRAM IN 2014:

Launched Jarden Sustainability Awards

Participated in The Sustainability Consortium to develop standards and drive solutions around Sustainability

Created Global Sustainability Connection Newsletter

Tracked KPIs in Energy, Waste, Water, Packaging and Greenhouse Gas

Communicated Jarden’s sustainability expectations to our supplier base

Deployed “Think Lean Think Green” campaigns at each of our sites

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Key Performance Indicators

Energy

Overall reduction in energy consumption can be attributed to various reduction campaigns that have taken place across our facilities. Some examples include: lighting retro-fits, turn it off campaigns, education to employees and identifying inefficiencies and upgrading equipment.

Success Story

Jarden Branded Consumables: At our Mapa facility located in Malaysia they have upgraded the existing mercury high bay lamp used in the manufacturing area to an induction type high bay light that can reduce the electricity consumption and enhance the fire protection at the facility. This upgrading activity has power savings of approximately 40%. In addition to this the facility provides reminders to all staff on the efficient use of electricity at the facility.

Jarden Consumer Solutions: Starting in 2008 JCS factories located in Canada, California and Missouri engaged in lighting retrofits to install high efficiency lighting. Since this project started through 2014, electricity usage has been reduced by 30,113,655 KWhr. This led to a savings and a reduction of 15,147 Metric Tons of Green House Gases.

Jarden Branded Consumables: Yankee Candle Company implemented a line expansion project at their manufacturing facility located in Deerfield, MA. The project was designed to utilize new, innovative energy efficient technology for the production of candles. Yankee Candle worked in a joint effort with the local electric utility company, WMECo. This project has increased candle production by 92% with annual energy savings of 768,680 KWhr and reduced annual emissions by 1,168,821 pounds of Co2.

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40%Power savings in Malaysia facility due to upgraded lighting system

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Water

Water conservation efforts have continued to take place across our organization to reduce overall use of water. Some of the various projects that we engage in include: identifying inefficiencies, awareness campaigns and upgrading of water treatment facilities.

Success Story

Jarden Outdoor Solutions: Our Jarden Team Sports, Tennessee Tanning facility was presented with the Tullahoma Pride Award for wastewater improvements. This is an unsolicited award by the city of Tullahoma, TN. The tannery was recognized for its significant improvements.

Jarden Consumer Solutions: To help drive water reductions, our facility located in Acuna, Mexico kicked off a “Save Water” campaign. To help employees be more conscious about saving water, posters were hung in the facility to drive awareness.

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Waste

Our facilities continue to look for new ways to eliminate waste. Across our organization there are many initiatives that are focused on driving waste out of our supply chain while striving towards our ultimate goal of zero waste.

Success Story

Jarden Branded Consumables: At our BRK brand location in Brampton, Canada they have engaged in a Zero Waste program. This is a product and waste management system in which BRK (the manufacturer), not the consumer or the government, takes responsibility for the environmentally-safe management of our product when it is no longer useful or discarded. This solution engages contractors in collecting waste and provides BRK with a customized waste diversion and recycling / upcycling program coupled with a robust and ongoing marketing and PR campaign. Established in 2012, this is the only producer take back program within the fire safety category and results in potentially over 300,000 pounds of waste being diverted from landfills across the country annually. BRK was recognized for their efforts by the Electro-Federation Canada Award.

Jarden Consumer Solutions: At our Neosho, MO location increased efforts around recycling have led to a 22% solid waste reduction in 2014. This number was achieved due to understanding more about waste streams from recycling audits along with an increase in engagement among employees to help drive the recycling program.

Jarden Branded Consumables: At our United States Playing Cards (USPC) company in Erlanger, KY a com-mingled recycling program was launched. To kick off the new program all employees were given a custom deck of “Sustainability playing cards” along with a desk side recycling bin. USPC is making a difference by greatly reducing the amount of landfill waste by recycling office paper, magazines, newspapers, cardboard, plastic bottles and glass.

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BRAMPTON, CANADAwas recognized for their efforts by the Electro-Federation Canada Award

> ERLANGER, KYUnited States Playing Cards Company launched a recycling program

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Packaging

Across our organization we continue to look for new innovative ways to remove excessive packaging without sacrificing quality and appeal.

Success Story

Jarden Team Sports: At our St. Louis, MO location the packaging on replica batting helmets was replaced with a sustainable alternative. The PVC packaging was replaced with corrugated packaging. The new packaging uses sustainable E-Flute corrugate which provides more space for graphics and eliminates the easily damaged plastics.

Old Packaging

New Packaging

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Employee Engagement

Monarch Butterfly Initiative: Jarden Corporation initiated a global sustainability project for 2014 for all facilities on the migration path of the beautiful Monarch butterfly. Experts are concerned that Monarch butterflies, famous for their nearly 3,000 mile migration to Mexico and coastal California during the summer / early fall months could be drastically decreasing in numbers. Our facilities that are important to the migration pathway were challenged with helping to support efforts to improve the Monarch’s habitat by including appropriate plantings and gardens to help facilitate the Monarch migration.

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In the Green Routine3,000Number of miles traveled by monarchs in their annual migration.

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1Simple action can help save monarchs: give to Monarch Conservation.

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90%The decline seen in monarch populations in recent years.

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3,000>The number of acres of habitat lost to development each day.

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JAM/Columbia, SC and Enka, NCCreated new beautifica-tion areas plush with milkweed plants and seeds, and are on their way to seeing Monarch butterflies on campus within the year.

JTS TennesseeAfter the installation of anew water tank at Tennessee Tanning, the landscaping around theconcrete pad has beenplanted with butterfly bush, butterfly weedand Carolina jessamine.

JTS RawlingsWashington, MOAmerica In Bloom pre-sented Rawlings SportingGoods with an award for their Butterfly Garden.

JTS MikenThe garden continues togrow and attract theMonarch.

JTS/Rawlings AdirondackRawlings Adirondack hasstarted our Monarch Butterfly Project to create a habitat for the Monarch Butterflies and aid in their migration.

JCS-WaynesboroMilkweed plants wereplanted around the facility in an effort to continue the growth and survival of the Monarch Butterfly.

JPS/Springfield andReedsvilleCreated milkweed beds to establish habitats for the Monarch butterflies.

JCS USA/NeoshoTeen Challenge workers,JCS Neosho CommunityFund Committee and theNeosho EHS&S Teambegin work on MonarchButterfly Garden.

Monarch Butterfly Initiative

Success Story

Backyard Collective Redwood Regional Park

The Bay area is an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise with more than 200 parks, preserves and other protected areas. Employees from our Marmot business helped to restore and improve Redwood Regional Park so everyone has the opportunity to appreciate the Redwood trees, trails and wild-life. The team provided trail maintenance and planted new trees at the park.

Jarden Branded Consumables

At our Mexico location for Electronica BRK, the Mexican Federal Environmental Protection Agency (PROFEPA) awarded them with the Clean Industry certification. This is awarded to those businesses that voluntarily participate in the program and comply with the Action Plan resulting from the audit. Areas that are audited in order to obtain the “Clean Industry” certification include: emissions control, hazardous waste management, non-hazardous waste management, waste water management, chemicals disposal, control of environmental risks and compliance with laws and regulations.

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Social ResponsibilityJarden is committed to conducting all business practices with the highest standards of business ethics and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Our Social Responsibility program is focused on promoting transparency throughout the supply chain. Through a constant focus on transparency and education, our Social Responsibility program continues to make significant progress on developing our suppliers while reducing potential risks to our supply chain.

We believe that engaging each of our key stakeholders is critical to our program success. We strive to partner with our stakeholders to drive improvements around Social Responsibility. As you read further you will learn about our performance in Social Responsibility which includes our KPIs along with some of the significant program milestones that were achieved in 2014.

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Each year JAH tracks our Social Responsibility KPIs to benchmark not only our successes, but also to understand areas where we can continue to enhance our program. At the beginning of each year, aggressive goals are established and programs are launched to continuously drive improvements and performance. As you read further you will learn about the significant milestones that contributed to our overall performance in 2014.

In 2015 our program will continue to promote transparency throughout our supply chain and will continue to focus on programs that will support development of our suppliers through detailed training and root cause analysis.

Sustainable and Continuous Improvements in Social Responsibility

Stakeholder Engagement and Satisfaction

Internal and External Education and Awareness

Supplier Development and Capacity Building

Transparency to Drive Performance

Leveraging Best Practices to Maximize Results

Key Focus Areas

This rating was achieved due to the significant milestones that were achieved in Social Responsibility activities along with the increase in Factory Scorecard and Audit performance. While there is still plenty of work to be done our program continues to develop and evolve to ensure were are focused on driving supplier performance through our active monitoring, training and development programs. Our program continues to keep pace with the growth of our organization while maintaining a commitment to continuous improvement.

JARDEN RECEIVED AN OVER-ALL RATING OF ACCEPTABLE FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

FOR 2014

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Social Responsibility 2014 Milestones

Training / Reinforcement / Supplier Development

• Supplier Roundtables• Expansion of E-Learning training program for suppliers• Annual Supplier training in Northern and Southern China

focused on solutions and best practices• Detailed onsite supplier remediation sessions• Internal education and training sessions on Social

Responsibility

Program Evolution

• Enhanced Code of Conduct• Recalibration of audit• Ongoing shift to performance from

compliance• Enhanced escalation process

Reporting / Metrics Tracking

• Audits to get a pulse on factory performance

• Factory scorecards completed on suppliers to look beyond the audit

• Performance benchmarking• Vulnerability and risk assessments• Detailed remediation plans

focused on Root Cause Analysis

Customer Satisfaction

• Continued expansion of customer partnerships and relationships

• Self-monitoring supplier with the majority of JAH customers

• Leader in Wal-Mart’s Supplier Development Program• Joint training partnerships with customers

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Social Responsibility: Success Story

In 2014 JAH hosted its Annual Supplier training events in Hangzhou and Dongguan, China. This event which is sponsored by JAH is open to all suppliers and customers. The training sessions were focused on “Best Practice” sharing and solutions to common challenges that factories are encountering. Topics such as Laws and Regulations, Fire Safety, Working Hours and Sustainability were covered at the events.

Guest speakers such as Wal-Mart along with our own suppliers presented on challenges and potential solutions to common issues factories are encountering within their own operations. These events concluded with an awards ceremony to recognize certain JAH suppliers that are exceeding expectations.

The feedback from our Supplier Training events was very positive and continues to serve as a “Best Practice” within the CSR field. Future trainings will continue to be focused on sharing innovative solutions to drive improved working conditions in all our Supplier’s factories.

TRAINING IS A CORE COMPETENCY TO OUR

CSR PROGRAM

IT ALLOWS OUR PROGRAM TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE. OUR PROGRAM DEPLOYS A VARIETY OF TRAINING METHODOLOGIES,

SOME OF WHICH INCLUDE: ONSITE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, GROUP

TRAININGS, ROUNDTABLES, WEBINARS AND E-LEARNINGS.

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In 2014 our CSR program made significant progress towards our unwavering commitment to create a “Better Tomorrow Than Today”. In 2015 we will continue to develop and launch program initiatives that improve working conditions in factories that produce our products, reduce our impacts on the environment and protect and enhance our global supply chain. We look forward to sharing future milestones with you in our next CSR Report.

The Future


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