Spotlight: Examples of Local Social Initiatives

Employee Wellness by Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories (“ELL”), Pennsylvania and Eurofins Food Testing Germany, Hamburg 

Lancaster: In Lancaster, Eurofins successfully occupied a new building in 2019 of over 167,000 square feet, which included a workout centre and cafeteria (“Flik”) to encourage healthy habits and living. This new space has also enriched Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories’ company culture. Flik has F.I.T. menu items that help educate and guide employees to healthy food choices. These programmes are supported through weekly Wellness FIT blog posts that share recipes ideas and wellness tips. Furthermore, Flik shares ELL’s mission for sustainability by measuring and reducing food waste, using post-consumer paper products, and buying local food. In particular, Flik has partnered with ELL’s garden club to purchase any produce grown at ELL’s onsite garden. The new cafeteria has furthered ELL’s mission around wellness and sustainability.

The Wellness Center is designed for fitness classes and individual workouts for all employees to use at the Lancaster and National Service Centre site. ELL has partnered with I Am Limitless, a small, women-owned, fitness boutique to provide onsite fitness classes to improve employee health and enhance company culture. The Wellness Committee regularly holds challenges to encourage participation in classes and holds a special workshop monthly. Workshops have included outdoor sunrise yoga, handstand workshops, and partner circuits. These programmes have encouraged a healthy lifestyle for all employees at the Lancaster site, created opportunities for collaboration, and strengthened employee relationships.

Hamburg: Eurofins Food Testing in Hamburg established a parent-child office to support parents to work on-site while supervising their child.

Eurofins colleagues are active contributors to the «Hamburg Clean Up», a project cleaning up waste in the local environment.

Eurofins Germany contributed to «Donating Hardware» a German organisation collecting used-IT devices for recycling.