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Innovation
page 28

Operations and
logistics
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How we 
generate value

In our processes
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Introduction

Who we are 

About Natura
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Where we are
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Performance 
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Our Essence 
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Highlights 
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Message from 
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INTRODUCTION

Presentation 

Communication 
in constant 
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Our report seeks to provide an 
integrated view of the multiple 
facets of life in the company

WEL COME TO THE ABRIDGED version of the Natura 2015 Annual 

Report. Here we have selected the main facts and results during the year. The indicators 
of our economic, social and environmental performance may be viewed in greater detail 
on our website www.natura.com.br/relatorio-anual, our main medium for communicating 
performance.

During another year, we have sought to evolve in applying the Integrated Reporting 
guidelines set forth by the IIRC, the International Integrated Reporting Council. The objective 
is to continuously enhance the clarity with which we demonstrate the correlation between 
the economic, social and environmental impacts generated by our business decisions.

An important step forward in this direction is the use of a methodology for measuring 
environmental profi t and loss (EP&L). Prepared for the fi rst time ever by a company in Brazil, 
this is aimed at the valuation of environmental impacts. This initial application is fundamental to 
enable us to refi ne the calculation methodology in order to discover the real impacts caused 
by our businesses so that we may promote concrete improvements where the environmental 
effects of our operations are concerned.

Once again we have followed the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 guidelines, 
the international reference standard in sustainability reporting which we were pioneers in 
adopting fi fteen years ago. Natura’s communication of its performance is the result of a 
consistent evolution in the way the company holds itself accountable to society, guided by the 
transparent presentation of our contributions towards generating value for all the stakeholder 
groups with whom we relate.

Enjoy reading it!

Marcelo Bicalho Behar
Director of Corporate Affairs

Ambitions
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See the complete 
version of the 2015 
Annual Report on 
the website
www.natura.com.br/
relatorio-anual

INTRODUCTION

Our essence
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Reason for Being

 Beliefs

Our Reason for Being is to create
and sell products and services
that promote well-being/being well.

well-being
is the harmonious relationship
of the individual with himself,
with his own body. 

being well
is the empathetic, successful and pleasurable
relationship of an individual with other people,
with nature, and with the whole.

Vision

Due to our corporate behavior, 
the quality of the relations we establish 
and our products and services, 
we will be a group of brands with 
strong local and global expression,
identified with the community of people 
committed to building a better world
through a better relationship with themselves, 
with others, with the
nature of which they are a part,
with the whole.

Life is a chain of relationships.
Nothing in the universe stands alone. 
Everything is interdependent.

Natura believes that
valuing relationships is the foundation
of the great human revolution
in the pursuit of peace,
solidarity, and life
in all of its manifestations.

Continuously striving
for improvement
develops individuals,
organizations, and society.

Commitment to the truth is the route
to enhance quality in relationships.

The greater the individual diversity, the greater the wealth
and vitality of the whole system.

The pursuit of beauty, a genuine aspiration of every human being, 
should be free of preconceived ideas and manipulation.

The company, a living organism,
is a dynamic set of relationships. Its value and longevity
are connected to its ability to contribute towards the evolution
of society and its sustainable development.

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Highlights

Achievements

Our international operations are expanding vigorously, representing almost 30% of 
Natura revenues. In reais, gross revenue grew 65%, totaling R$ 2.9 billion.

We inaugurated a logistics hub in Itupeva (São Paulo), one of the most modern in 
the world. In conjunction with the São Paulo distribution center, the complex has 
helped boost delivery quality, ensuring that our products get to the consumer even 
more rapidly.

We revitalized direct selling with the introduction of new digital tools, providing our 
consultants and consumers with a faster, more efficient commercial experience.

We finalized the plan to open Natura-owned stores, the first of which will be 
inaugurated before the end of 2016.

We successfully implemented the sale of the Sou line in drugstores, the fastest 
growing retail segment.

We applied a valuation methodology to measure environmental impacts throughout 
the value chain. Natura’s first Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) assessment was 
concluded in 2015, and will help us draft actions to promote a positive impact by 
2050, as set forth in our Sustainability Vision.

The Instituto Natura commemorated its fifth anniversary, while the Believing is 
Seeing line, which raises funds for investment in education, completed 20 years in the 
market.

We were listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the second year running. 

We gained recognition from the UN with the Champions of the Earth award, in the 
Entrepreneurial Vision category, granted to personalities and companies having an 
outstanding commitment to sustainability.

Challenges 

In Brazil, we suffered an 
unexpected increase in tax 
load and were affected by 
the exchange devaluation 
in a recessive economic 
environment.

The cosmetics, fragrances and 
toiletries segment shrank for the 
first time in 23 years, retracting 
6%. This impacted net revenue, 
which at R$ 7.89 billion was 
3.6% down on 2014. As a result 
EBITDA totaled R$ 1.5 billion, a 
3.8% reduction compared with 
the previous year.

Natura’s environmental 
performance is directly linked 
with business performance. 
The reduction in the scale of 
production had a negative effect 
on eco-efficiency indicators.

INTRODUCTION

Message from the founders

Courage to 
transform

2015 eloquently displayed the 
complexity of our time. Analyzed from 
various different perspectives, the year 
tested our limits to the extreme. As global 
citizens, we enthusiastically accompanied 
the emergence, in December, of the new 
international agreement drawn up at the 
Climate Conference in Paris, where the 
leaders of the nations of the world gathered 
just one month after the terrorist attacks 
in the French capital. This emblematic city, 
which inspires us so much, whether as a 
cradle of republican ideals or as the center 
of the world of beauty, did not give in to 
terror and inaugurated a new phase in 
dealing with climate change.

There are characteristics that link 
these lamentable episodes. They reflect 
the reality of an era: the sharp distortion 
of individual and collective values that 
culminates in the negation of the ethics 
of life. Terrorism, corruption and disregard 
for the environment are some of the 
many signs of the exhaustion of a mental 
model that has begun to threaten our 
coexistence in society and the very survival 
of humans on this planet. At this time, we 
are compelled to reaffirm the sense of 
dignity and responsibility that we should 
have toward one another, which is the 
foundation of the tenets that sustain us as 
individuals and as a company.

In our country, we experienced severe 

This moment calls for transformations 

setbacks in social and economic gains. 
We were again astonished by the crisis 
of governability caused by innumerous 
investigations of corruption that lay bare 
the inadequacy of our political system. As 
if that were not enough, we also witnessed 
the biggest environmental tragedy in recent 
history that swept millions of tons of mud 
and iron ore waste through the states of 
Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo and into 
the sea.

in all dimensions, from individual to 
collective, from private to public, from 
local to global. We must, therefore, have 
the courage to carry through these 
transformations, though without ever 
losing sight of our ethical foundation. To 
find solutions within the complex web of 
interests that unite us, it is important to 
be open to cooperation, to contradictory 
opinions and to open dialogue. Only then 
we will be able to build a new consensus 

that is tolerant when faced with differences 
and that will foster fair and sustainable 
development. It is important to remember 
that courage literally means “acting with 
the heart.”

This is what we have done at different 

times in our history when we also faced 
adverse moments. Supported by our 
belief in the strength of relations and 
interdependence, in 2015 we achieved the 
results made possible by a company with a 
global network, an effort that began in the 
late 1980s, with the first of our International 
Operations. Today, they already represent 
nearly 30% of our business and continue 
to grow at an accelerated pace. In addition 
to welcoming our brands, concepts and 
products, these markets inspire us, teach 
us, enrich our worldview and reinforce the 
prospects of entering new geographies.
It is the same determination that 
mobilizes us to face the challenges of 
the Brazilian market. As founders, we are 
committed to supporting the changes 
needed to increase the value created by 
our Reason for Being, which is well being 
well. We understand that our brands 
must keep up with the new demands 

of consumers and of society as a whole 
by offering experiences, products and 
services through a variety of channels, both 
physical and virtual, while always driving 
sales through relationships. Therefore, our 
role is to always ensure that, through the 
values of Our Essence, we will find the 
expressions that best meet the spirit of the 
time. The moment calls for action: everyone, 
whether government leader, businessperson 
or citizen, must endeavor to meet the 
Sustainable Development Goals set forth by 
the United Nations.

To travel this path together, we invite 
everyone to join in the spirit of the words 
of South African leader and Nobel Peace 
Prize winner Nelson Mandela, whose 
wisdom and persistence ended one of 
the most perverse systems ever created: 
“Together we must suppor t courage 
where there is fear, foster agreement 
where there is conflict and inspire hope 
where there is despair.”

Antonio Luiz da Cunha Seabra, 
Guilherme Peirão Leal and 
Pedro Luiz Barreiros Passos 

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INTRODUCTION

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bottom, members of the 

Natura Board of Directors: 

Plínio Villares Musetti, 

Giovanni Giovannelli, 

Marcos de Barros Lisboa, 

Luiz Ernesto Gemignani, 

Pedro Luiz Barreiros Passos, 

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INTRODUCTION

Message from the Executive Committee

Beauty, pleasure 
and sustainability

The business environment we are 
experiencing reflects the new world at 
the beginning of this century marked 
by intense, fast-paced, comprehensive 
and interdependent relationships and by 
exponential connections. We believe that 
one success factor for companies in this 
environment is having the agility to identify 
new expressions of their basic tenets that 
are in keeping with the spirit of this time 
of transformation. Natura is moving rapidly 
toward the assimilation of this reality. In 
2015, we advanced in the understanding, 
development and amassing of the capacities 
required to meet the renewed demands of 
our relationship network.

An important step was to understand 
that to promote well being well in the world 
today means to also provide beauty, pleasure 
and sustainability to those who maintain 
a relationship with us. It is to be present 
in consumers’ lives when and where they 
want it. It is to know them well enough to 
be able to surprise them. It is to put all of 
the company’s structures at the service 
of our consultants to ensure their success. 
It is to create platforms that enable the 
management of this network with the speed 
and quality it requires. It is to organize and 
reorganize itself in a flexible way, on a daily 
basis, based on the circumstances and needs. 
It is to innovate with the agility of a startup 

and to gain economies of scale with the 
strength of a global company.

In 2015, we took the first steps of 
this evolution in our way of thinking and 
acting. Profoundly impacted by the country’s 
economic environment, by the increase 
in the tax load and by the devaluation 
of the local currency, the results for the 
year do not express everything to which 
we had aspired, but reaffirm some of our 
strategic choices, such as our vocation for 
international expansion. Our performance 
was heavily influenced by the expansion of 
our International Operations, which already 
account for nearly 30% of Natura’s total 
business. In Brazil, our largest market, the 
cosmetics, fragrances and toiletries industry 
suffered a retraction due to the recession, 
an occurrence without precedent in the 
last 23 years. Given these distinct forces, we 
achieved consolidated net revenue of R$7.9 
billion, with EBITDA of R$1.5 billion and net 
income of R$513 million.

The significant evolution of our 
International Operations is the fruit of the 
visionary efforts of more than 30 years of 
Natura, which evolves permanently and still 
has a lot to offer. We have strengthened 
the strategic integration and the decision-
making process of our leaders to better 
meet the needs in each country, to 
disseminate knowledge and to accelerate 

the incorporation of practices, tools and 
processes. In the same way, we support 
and seek mutual learning experiences with 
Aesop, which in three years has tripled its 
revenue and doubled the number of stores 
around the world. In 2015, it opened a store 
in São Paulo, its first unit in Latin America. 

In every market, we want to be closer 
and more responsive to consumers’ needs. 
By providing the best experience in terms of 
access, convenience, quality, communication 
and service, we are always driving and 
evolving sales through relationships. That’s 
why we have invested in expanding our 
technological capacity to process and 
interpret information and in offering 
everyone, from managers to consultants, 
the opportunity to adequately serve each 
market segment or public. Similarly, we 
have been increasingly adopting digital tools 
that support our sales. For example, with 
the Você Conect@ project, which gives 
our consultants connection and access to 
applications and payment methods through 
tablets and mobile phones, and also with 
the Rede Natura (Natura Network), 
which is our digital platform through which 
customers and franchise consultants can 
develop relationships. 

We also have successfully tested 
our business models in different channels. 
We tested the launch of the Sou brand in 

drugstores in cities in the interior of São 
Paulo state, which generated positive results, 
ensuring its expansion across Brazil this year. 
We developed the Natura store format in 
shopping malls to meet urban consumers’ 
need for prompt delivery and to encourage 
experimentation of our products, with the 
first store scheduled to open by June 2016.

More than being definitive paths for 
Natura’s future, these initiatives symbolize 
an attitude that is consistent with the 
demands of modern times: the adoption 
of a new execution pace that is faster, 
convenient and simple, and in synch with the 
interconnected and dynamic environment 
of collaborative creation in which we live. 
We do not want definitive answers to the 
challenges that arise, but instead, we want to 
rely on a powerful advantage: the collective 
intelligence and commitment of our 
relationship network. We want to awaken in 
people, both inside and outside of Natura, 
the spirit of leadership and entrepreneurship 
required to build, together, creative solutions 
and in this way fulfill people’s aspiration for a 
life of beauty, pleasure and sustainability, all at 
the same time.

Roberto Oliveira de Lima,
Chief Executive Officer, on behalf of 
the Executive Committee

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In the photo on top, from left to right, members of the Natura Executive Committee:  

Agenor Leão de Almeida Júnior, Vice President, Digital Technology; José Roberto Lettiere, Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations; Robert Claus Chatwin, Vice President,  

Internationalization; Roberta Salvador, Legal and Compliance Director ; Roberto Oliveira de Lima, Chief Executive Officer ; João Paulo Ferreira, Vice President, Networks; Erasmo 

Toledo, Vice President, International Operations; Fátima Rossetto, Director, People and Culture; Andrea Alvares, Vice President, Marketing and Innovation¹; Josie Peressinoto 

Romero, Vice President, Operations and Logistics; and Gerson Valença Pinto, Vice President, Innovation.

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Strategy

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We intend to develop the Natura business model 
using different channels and technologies to deliver 
the best buying experience as a means of driving 
expansion in Brazil and overseas

WE  ARE A COM PANY 
focused on providing its consumers with 
the best buying experience via different 
channels. Our efforts, work and dedication 
are directed, above all, at enhancing the 
mechanisms that facilitate relationship selling. 
We are addressing consumers who have 
new habits, who use multiple channels and 
means of payment and who, at the same 
time, value experimentation, an enjoyable 
buying experience and expect the best value 
for their money. As is to be expected, our 
1.9 million Natura Consultants (NCs) also 
experience this multiple offer of brands and 
relationship channels.

Within this context, Natura is striving 

to develop its business model, offering 
products and services that promote 
beauty, pleasure and sustainability, all at 
once. To do this, we want to communicate 
and generate the best possible value 
proposition for each consumer and 
consultant segment. We seek to invest in 
new technologies, constantly attuned to 
the demands of life in large urban centers. 
In operational terms, we intend 

to become an increasingly effi cient and 
productive organization, capable of 
responding rapidly to consumer needs 
while retaining our focus on the cash 
generation which will enable us to expand 
our operations to new markets.

Encouraged by what we have learned 

from the success of our operations 

in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, 
Colombia, Mexico and Peru), we plan 
to expand Natura’s internationalization. 
We are focused on maintaining the pace 
of growth in the region, where market 
presence, consumer preference and team 
engagement are all on the increase. To do 
this, we are further integrating strategy and 
decision making to accelerate the transfer 
of innovation and knowledge to the 
diverse countries in which we operate.
Similarly, the ongoing international 

growth of the Aesop brand (including 
the fi rst Brazilian store, inaugurated in 
the São Paulo in 2015) is helping to build 
the company’s experience in the retail 
trade and in the developed markets. 
This experience is complemented by the 
multichannel model in place in France. 

While our development strategy for 
the coming years is adjusting to a market 
reality undergoing intense transformation, 
the company remains fi rmly rooted in 
the Natura fundaments. We have always 
sought to achieve economic, social and 
environmental results in a balanced and 
integrated manner. Fortunately, these days 
an increasing number of companies are 
concerned about ethics and sustainability. 
We are prepared to continue to 
contribute to building this new corporate 
culture which values doing business 
responsibly, reaffi rming the practices 
adopted by Natura since its foundation. 

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We seek to organize our activities in a circular way. Processes are 
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with a view to boosting productivity while reducing environmental 
impact.It is a model which undergoes constant renewal: as each 
cycle ends, it lays the foundation for the coming cycle. The fact that 
most of the ingredients in Natura products come from plants (83%) 
enhances environmental preservation and the social development 
of the suppliers of these inputs. In our open innovation model, 
Brazilian and global partners share traditional knowledge, science 
and design in the development of new product lines. A large part 
of our packaging has great recycling potential and the company 
incentivizes the use of refi lls. But it is the Natura consultants who 
provide an essential service throughout this chain. They are the ones 
who advise customers on the best way to use company products, 
creating an experience which exceeds consumer expectations, 
leverages results and forges closer links with the brand. Through 
our products and services, we foster more sustainable values and 
behaviors. The fl ows created by our model generate impacts in four 
major spheres: environmental, cultural, economic and social. These 
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7,010.3 7,408.4  7,899.0 
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IOs: International Operations; NCs: Natura Consultants; NCAs: Natura 
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Notas:
1Source: Bloomberg.
2Figures correspond to the dividends and interest on equity effectively 
paid out to shareholders, i.e., cash accounting basis.

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comprising 50% post-consumer and/or renewable non-cellulosic 
materials that do not increase mass. 

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and the classifi cation of a third as idle (no input purchases). 

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Who
we are

Topics from the 2050 Sustainability Vision 
addressed in this chapter 

Our Network
Employees

Management and organization
Ethics and transparency

WHO WE ARE

About Natura

A powerful 
relationship 
network
_

Natura is the largest Brazilian 
cosmetics and beauty products 
multinational

The São Paulo 

distribution center is the 

most modern of its kind  

in Latin America, 

integrated in a system 

which ensures that a 

large part of the products 

reach the consumer 

in up to 48 hours

SI NCE  THE  COMPANY  was 

founded in 1969, it has been driven by 
relationship selling. We reach millions of 
consumers through 1.37 million Natura 
Consultants (NCs) in Brazil and 505,000 
in our International Operations (IOs), in 
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, France, Mexico 
and Peru.

Natura has five plants, located in 

Cajamar (São Paulo) and Benevides 
(Pará), with a total annual production 
capacity of 508 million units – in addition 
to manufacturing by third-party suppliers 
in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. The 
company has eight distribution centers in 
Brazil, the one in São Paulo being the most 
modern in Latin America, conceived to fully 

integrate people with physical and cognitive 
disabilities into the labor force. The system 
is completed by a logistics hub in Itupeva 
(São Paulo) and distribution centers in the 
countries in which we operate.

manufacturer Aesop, which has 135 stores in 
eighteen countries in America, Asia, Europe 
and Oceania, predominantly located in large 
urban centers.

We have more than 7,700 employees 

together with companies that share our 
belief in building a fairer world. In 2015, we 
received important acknowledgements, 
particularly worthy of note being three 
aligned with our strategic focuses:

Infrastructure investments over the last 

five years have enabled the company to carry 
out 42% of deliveries in Brazil and 60% of 
deliveries in the International Operations in 
up to 48 hours.

Natura’s constant pursuit of innovation 

in concepts and products is supported by 
research and technology centers in São 
Paulo, Manaus and New York (USA), as well 
as the multichannel operation in Paris. Our 
international activities are complemented by 
a 78.75% stake in the Australian cosmetics 

in Brazil and overseas (including Aesop), 
oriented by an organizational culture focused 
on the sustainable development of our entire 
relationship network.

Natura is one of the largest B Corps in 

the world, having become the first publicly 
traded company to gain this certification in 
2014. This seal is an international certification 
awarded by B-Lab to organizations whose 
businesses seek to generate a positive 
social and environmental impact. This is a 
reaffirmation of our commitment to working 

•  Champions of the Earth Award, in the 

Entrepreneurial Vision category, granted 
by the United Nations Environment 
Program (UNEP) to personalities 
and companies having an outstanding 
commitment to sustainability
First place in the Exame IBRC Ranking 
for customer service excellence
•  Champion in the consumer goods 

• 

sector in the Exame magazine Biggest 
and Best ranking

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Where we are

The Natura 
world

WHO WE ARE

Mexico
Production and 
distribution
130,400 NCs

5 Natura manufacturing 
units 
4 in Cajamar
1 in Benevides

9 distribution centers 
in Brazil  
Itupeva Hub (São Paulo)
São Paulo DC (São Paulo)
Canoas DC (Rio Grande do Sul)
São José dos Pinhais DC 
(Paraná)
Mathias Barbosa DC (Minas 
Gerais)
Uberlândia DC (Minas Gerais)
Castanhal DC (Pará)
Jaboatão dos Guararapes DC 
(Pernambuco)
Simões Filhos DC (Bahia)

4 research and innovation 
centers
Cajamar (São Paulo)
Benevides (Pará)
Manaus (Amazonas)
New York (USA)

Stakeholder groups and 
sales channels
•  More than 1.37 million NCs 

in Brazil

•  More than 505,000 NCs in 
the International Operations
•  More than 7,700 employees 
in Brazil and overseas, 
including Aesop
•  Approximately 5,000 

• 

suppliers
30 social biodiversity 
relationship communities 
•  Rede Natura (online sales 
platform) available in every 
state in Brazil and in Chile
135 Aesop stores in 18 
countries in Europe, Oceania, 
Asia and America

• 

•  More than 700 points of 

sale in Raia Drogasil chain 
drugstores in the state of 
São Paulo

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Canada

United States

New York (USA)
Innovation Hub

Aesop
New York

Paris (France)

Natura Store

1,060 NCs

Colombia
Production and distribution 
72,300* NCs

Peru
Distribution
91,500* NCs

Brazil
Production and distribution
and Aesop store
1.4 million* NCs

Chile
Distribution
73,400* NCs

Brazil

Argentina
Production and 
distribution
139,600 NCs

Norway

Sweden

United
Kingdom

Germany

Switzerland

Paris (France)
Natura Store
1,060 NCs

France

Italy

WHO WE ARE

Aesop
Zurich

Aesop
Berlin

South Korea

Japan

Hong Kong

Taiwan

Macau

Malaysia

Singapore

Aesop
Tokyo

Aesop
Hong Kong

Aesop
Melbourne

Aesop
São Paulo

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Australia

Natura Operations

Distribution Centers 

Countries with Aesop Stores

*includes Natura Consultants and Natura Consultant Advisors (NCAs)

WHO WE ARE

Performance

Ever more 
global
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The International Operations 
already account for almost 30% 
of Natura’s business and continue 
to grow rapidly

ACCOUNTING FOR 

ALMOST a third of Natura’s net revenues, 
the International Operations (IOs) have 
expanded significantly over the last five years, 
at an average annual growth rate of 47%. The 
operations comprise Argentina, Colombia and 
Mexico – where we have local production 
through partners –, as well as Chile and Peru 
and Bolivia, which employ a commercial 
representation model. We also operate in 
France, through direct sale and retail.

In Latin America, we are the leaders 
in brand preference in Chile, with 35%, in 
Argentina (23%) and in Peru (26%), and brand 
awareness continues to grow in the more 
recent operations in Colombia and Mexico.

Our opportunities for international 
expansion are as significant as the rate at 
which these countries are subscribing to the 
Natura value proposition. We are among the 
top 11 companies with the best corporate 
reputation in Argentina and among the top 
50 in Mexico, according to a study by the 
consultancy Merco. The company’s reputation 
is further strengthened by recognition of its 
people management practices. Natura is in 
the best company to work for rankings in 
Colombia (1st), Argentina (2nd), Peru (2nd) and 
Chile (6th). 

Argentina is the company’s largest 

operation outside Brazil and is the 
headquarters of the International Operations. 
We initiated production in the country in 2010, 
and currently half the products invoiced are 
manufactured locally, helping reduce costs and 
CO2 emissions from product transportation, 

Growth in the IOs*
(R$ million)

Gross revenue 

Ebitda

2,914

245

1,765

1,411

103

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2013

2014

2015

2013

2014

2015

Above, on left, the headquarters of the International 

Operations in Argentina. Above, the store in France moves 

*International Operations: Latin America, France and Aesop.

to new address in Marais, and helps us to identify trends

as well as boosting our local economic and 
social impact. We are the second largest direct 
sale operation in Argentina and leader in a 
number of CTF segments. Our sales network 
comprises more than 140,000 Argentinean 
consultants, having grown 130% in five years. 
In Mexico, where the company also has its 
own production, a quarter of the products 
commercialized are manufactured locally.

Our relationship network in the IOs has 

more than 505,000 consultants (NCs) and 
continues to expand, driving increased share 
in these markets. We are the leaders in direct 
sales in Chile, with more than 73,000 NCs 
and Natura Consultant Advisors (NCAs), and 
the fourth largest company in the Cosmetic, 
Toiletry and Fragrance market. To expand sales 
alternatives in this market, we launched the 
Chilean version of the Rede Natura, our first 
experience with this project outside Brazil. 
The model enables the NCs to maintain their 

online pages for the sale of Natura products 
under a digital franchise model (read more on 
page 27).

In addition to the Rede Natura model in 

Chile, the company operates a differentiated 
direct sale format in Mexico, the second largest 
cosmetics market in Latin America, coming only 
after Brazil. The Sustainable Relations Network 
has been in place since 2011. Its growth rate 
is accelerated, reaching 33% last year, with a 
total of 130,400 NCs. The model is based on 
multilevel direct selling, driving entrepreneurship 
while incorporating sustainability-related 
concepts of quality and inclusion. The 
consultants can set up their own sales 
networks and develop new links with Natura 
as these networks grow and as they undertake 
community-based social and environmental 
initiatives. Natura has also operated in Bolivia 
for 28 years, employing a distinct distribution 
model. Year on year growth is strong, with the 

consultant base reaching 22,000 in 2015.

To support this increasingly important 
expansion, Natura has stepped up logistics 
investments in Latin America. We are building 
a new distribution center in Argentina which 
is scheduled to come into operation in 2016. 
The company’s largest production investment 
outside of Brazil, the new distribution center 
will expand order processing capacity in the 
country by 80%. Colombia gained its new, 
enlarged high tech distribution center last 
year. The facility will ensure the infrastructure 
necessary for the growth projected in the 
country up to 2018. In Peru, Natura installed 
a new pick to light line, a technology which 
optimizes order fulfillment, boosting the 
number of orders picked from 220 to 300 an 
hour. The logistics investments in the IOs are 
focused on the modernization and expansion 
of facilities, using high technology order picking 
similar to the Brazilian operation.

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WHO WE ARE

A leap
in growth
for Aesop
_

Three years after its 
acquisition by Natura, 
the Australian brand has 
expanded greatly. It also 
arrived in South America, 
opening a first store in 
São Paulo

Michael O’Keeffe, CEO of 

Aesop, highlights major 

advances, resulting, for 

example, in the store 

in São Paulo (above), 

designed by the architect 

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

New home 
in France
–

Known as the global center of beauty and 
cosmetics, France represents a strategic 
presence for the Natura brand. In 2015, we 
enhanced our representation with a sales 
model based on consultants, website and 
a company store. We also moved from the 
Saint-Germain region to Marais, a more 
contemporary district in which the store may 
operate seven days a week. The model in 
France enables us to capture trends, reinforce 
the international positioning of the brand and 
gain experience in multichannel sales.

THE R APID  EXPANSION of the Aesop brand, 

which was incorporated into Natura in 2013, exceeded all 
the company’s initial expectations. In these three years, the 
number of stores has doubled. Currently there are 135 stores 
in 18 countries, all in large urban centers located worldwide. 
Moreover, revenues have tripled, while Ebitda has grown by a 
factor of seven. In 2015, a further 37 units were inaugurated, 
one of which in São Paulo, the brand’s first retail outlet in 
South America.

Natura has supported the cosmetics brand of Australian 
origin in its ambition to gain in scale and global reach. In turn, 
Aesop provides Natura with key insights into operating in highly 
competitive, mature markets such as Europe, Asia and the 
United States, while retaining its entrepreneurial spirit and agility.

Find out about the outlook for Aesop in 2016 in this 

interview with CEO Michael O’Keeffe:

What has it been like working together with 

Natura over the last three years?

Time has just flown and things are coming on really well. 

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Natura has supported our growth both in terms of strategic 
advice at board level and at the operating level. Aesop is a truly 
international brand but is still small in the markets in which it 
operates, which means there will be many opportunities for 
growth in coming years.  

How do the companies work with each other?
Natura gave us a great deal of support for the launch 
of our first store in Latin America, in São Paulo, in practical 
questions such as logistics and product registration. As a 
global leader in sustainability, the company has also helped 
us improve our practices in this area. For our part, we have 
provided support in Natura’s movement towards becoming a 
multichannel operation based on our retail experience in the 
markets we operate in. Additionally, Natura’s recent bout of 
accelerated growth has proven to be extremely valuable for us.

What is the outlook for Aesop for 2016?
We will continue to expand in 2016, starting up 

operations in two new countries: Denmark and Thailand. We 
plan to open another 40 stores in the countries in which 
we already operate, and we will launch our e-commerce 
operation. Above all, we expect to make the most of the 
collaboration and synergies with Natura to drive the growth of 
the two brands.

WHO WE ARE

Five year overview
_

Net revenue 
(R$ billion)

7.9

5.6

Number of Natura 
consultants 
(million)

1.9

1.4

Average
annual 
growth rate
8%

Average
annual 
growth rate
9%

2011

2015

2011

2015

Net revenue International 
Operations 
(R$ billion)

Relative CO2 emissions  
(kg CO2e/kg product)

2.3

Average
annual 
growth rate

47%

0.5

3.21

3.17

Average
annual 
growth rate

1.4%

2011

2015

2012*

2015

*Compared with 2012 because it is the base year for the 
company’s commitment to a 33% reduction in relative emissions 
by 2020.

Dividends 
(declared, R$ per share)

1.896

0.818

2011

2015

Average
annual 
growth rate

19%

Performance

The challenge 
of the Brazilian 
market
_

The conjuncture resulted in 
an even tougher competitive 
environment in Brazil, demanding 
great discipline in managing 
cash and investments

20 15  SAW  A MARKED   

contrast between the company’s 
results in Brazil and in the International 
Operations (IOs). While business 
overseas continues to expand rapidly, in 
Brazil the deterioration in the economic 
environment, the increase in tax load 
and the devaluation of the Real further 
complicated the retraction in sales and 
profitability the company has experienced 
in recent years.

Consolidating the Brazilian and the 
International Operations, Natura had a 
gross revenue of R$ 10.8 billion in 2015 
(8.6% up on 2014), with almost 1.9 million 
consultants (an increase of 8% over the 
previous year), Ebitda of R$ 1.5 billion 
(decrease of 3.8%), net income of R$ 
513 million  (down 29.9%) and free cash 
generation of R$ 818 million (compared 
with R$ 209 million in 2014).

It should be noted that in Brazil, 
where Natura’s gross revenue totaled 
R$ 7.89 billion, 3.6% down on 2014, the 
cosmetics, fragrances and toiletries market 
experienced its first retraction in the 

last 23 years, according to the industry 
associations Sipatesp/Abihpec1. 

In a year in which revenues were 
under pressure in our largest market, 
rigorous cash management prevailed. 
Natura rationalized Capex investment, 
which totaled $ 383 million, in line with 
the guidance of R$ 385 million for 2015 
and down on the R$ 505.7 million invested 
in 2014. This freed up R$ 313.6 million 
in working capital in 2015, compared 
with the consumption of R$ 208.3 
million the previous year. As a result, free 
cash generation totaled R$ 818 million 
compared with R$ 209 million in 2014.

The projection for 2016 Capex 
investment is approximately R$ 350 
million, aimed at ongoing reinforcement in 
technology and in segmentation capacity 
for product offerings, as well as the 
inauguration of the first Natura stores in 
Brazil, the expansion of the Aesop global 
chain and ongoing growth in Latin America.  

1Sipatesp/Abihpec: respectively the São Paulo state 

and the Brazilian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance 

industry associations

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WHO WE ARE

Governance

Closer 
and 
closer
_

The return of the founders to the 
co-chairmanship of the Board 
of Directors symbolizes the new 
business expansion cycle

WITH  THE END of Plínio Villares 
Musetti’s term as chairman of the Board of 
Directors in April 2015, Natura’s founding 
partners Antonio Luiz Seabra, Guilherme 
Peirão Leal and Pedro Luiz Barreiros 
Passos resumed their co-chairmanship, 
the position they had held until 2013. The 
decision reflects their desire to retain close 
links with the company as the new business 
expansion cycle gains traction.

franchises. Together with Luiz Ernesto 
Gemignani and Marcos de Barros 
Lisboa, they constitute the 50% of the 
independent external board members. 
“These are adjustments that are in tune 
with the company’s natural dynamics, 
aligning governance with the company’s 
new strategic vision”, says Corporate 
Governance director Moacir Salzstein.
In the course of 2015, the Board 

In the renewal process, Raul 

Gabriel Beer Roth and Júlio Moura 
Neto left the board after years of 
important contributions to the company’s 
development. The vacancies were filled 
with the re-election of Silvia Lagnado, an 
executive with a brilliant career in the 
consumer goods industry, and the arrival 
of Giovanni Giovannelli, who has broad 
experience in technology companies and 

proceeded with the review of company 
strategy, focused on structural questions, 
the market and the consumer. In 
conjunction with company executives, 
initiatives and priorities were defined for 
the next three years, underscoring the 
revitalization of the direct sale channel, 
multichannel opportunities, portfolio 
rationalization and the concentration of 
investments in priority brands and projects.

19

Expansion of the Executive Committee

In order to achieve the company’s strategic goals, the Executive 

Committee (Comex) was reinforced to ensure the execution of 
the strategy agreed upon with the Board of Directors. In 2015, 
we reorganized the former Brands and Products area, which was 
renamed Marketing and Innovation, incorporating the management of 
the company’s marketing matrix. Commercial management continues 
to report to the vice president of Networks.

At the beginning of 2016, we hired Andrea Figueiredo Teixeira 

Alvares as vice president of Marketing and Innovation. A graduate 
in Business Administration, she has broad experience in large 
multinational corporations. 

Comex now comprises the CEO, nine vice presidents (Digital 
Technology, Finance and Investor Relations, Innovation, International 
Operations, Internationalization, Marketing, Networks, Operations 
and Logistics and People and Culture), and the directors of the Legal 
and Compliance and Strategic Planning and Management Systems 
areas. The reorganization of the executive board favors process 
integration and ensures alignment between Comex and company 
strategy, driving greater dynamism and faster decision making.

Ethics and transparency

Natura’s mechanisms to promote control and transparency 

are evolving year on year. In 2015, the company created the 
Compliance area, which holds a seat on the Executive Committee, 
as well as a new channel to receive reports on corruption and any 
cases related to the Board of Directors, its supporting committees 
and the Executive Committee.

Other types of non-conformance continue to be handled by the 

Ombudsman and the Natura Ethics Committee, also headed by the 
Compliance Officer, whose function is to analyze all reports received 
via both channels. These changes are designed to intensify Natura’s 
anti-corruption controls and reinforce ethical conduct.

Natura voluntarily adopts best practices as established under 
the US Sarbanes-Oxley act, which provides for audit and security 
mechanisms aimed at fraud prevention. For the first time, these 
standards were also applied in Argentina. The company is planning 
to extend this control to the other operations in Latin America.

WHO WE ARE

Our culture

Leadership 
development 
incorporates 
hands-on 
experience 
_

Our leadership development 
program Mosaico uses 
experiences to stimulate agility, 
flexibility and empathy

CEO Roberto Lima presents the Mosaico Project to leaders in Cajamar (São Paulo)

TO OVERCOM E the challenges 

product and service commercialization. 

in today’s business world we strive to 
extend the capabilities of the people 
who work with us. In addition to hiring 
recognized and experienced talent from 
the market, we prioritize measures aimed 
at driving leadership capacity to provide 
the skill sets and knowledge necessary to 
execute company strategy. The focus is on 
ensuring managers understand the needs 
of consumers and, by extension, the Natura 
Consultants (NCs).

Launched in 2015, the new leadership 

development program called Mosaico 
is focused on living experiences applied 
to the reality of the business and the 
solution of routine questions, leveraging 
the multidisciplinary make up of the group. 
In the phase called Living Natura, executed 
between October and December, 
managers underwent experiences designed 
to stimulate a wide-ranging systemic vision 
of the entire business by means of activities 
in key areas such as manufacturing, product 
picking, consumer care, order delivery and 

The Mosaico program combines self-

knowledge and business strategy. As the 
name suggests, it consists of a framework 
of panels, divided into priority and optional 
subjects. This means that all par ticipants 
share a common development base and 
build up their personal program with 
optional modules in accordance with the 
requirements of their function and their 
personal interests. 

“The different practical experiences 
make learning more hands-on and effective, 
bringing it closer to the day to day issues 
faced in the company. In one of them, 
for example, the employees spend a day 
on the production line. In another, they 
pick the orders to be delivered to the 
consultants. They will then accompany the 
delivery of the order to the home of the 
NC or the end consumer”, says Anaísa 
Carlini, Human Resources manager.

An application for cell phone or 
tablet provides support for the program, 
with additional materials, suggestions for 

reading and videos to complement the 
training. The software was developed in 
Portuguese, Spanish and English to ensure 
it is accessible to all Natura employees.
In 2015, 300 leaders took part in 
the first phase of the program. Within 
three years, all the company’s 700 or so 
managers should have completed the  
full program. The organization in modules 
enables the incorporation of new  
subjects into the program in accordance 
with business needs and the Natura 
succession process. 

Another key program feature was  
the emphasis placed on internal knowledge 
and experience and resource optimization. 
As a result, 70% of the program content 
uses internal leaders as facilitators  
and multipliers of the contents in which 
Natura is specialized, such as direct sales 
and cosmetics, with support from external 
consultancies for the development of  
new competencies such as digital 
technologies, internationalization, new 
channels, among others.

A favorable climate for all

In 2015, we achieved the best result 
in favorability* at Natura since monitoring 
of the indicator was begun in 1995. With an 
average rating of 78% for the entire company, 
the score was three percentage points higher 
than the target set for the period, equaling the 
2013 result. 

This result positions Natura in the group 

of companies with the best organizational 
climate in a market benchmark comprising 
the 10% of companies with ratings of 76% or 
higher in the survey conducted by the Hay 
Group.

In the International Operations, we 

maintained a high favorability rate; at 86% it 
climbed two percentage points compared 
with the previous year. We have also obtained 
outstanding results in work place assessments: 
Natura came in first place among the best 
companies to work for in Colombia, second in 
Argentina and Peru, and sixth in Chile.

*Favorability is equivalent to the percentage of employees who 

gave the items surveyed a score of 4 and 5 on a scale from 1 to 

5 points

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Climate 
survey:
Favorability 1 
–

Natura2

78%

75%

78%

2013

2014

2015

Brazil

77%

73%

75%

2013

2014

2015

International Operations3

84%

86%

80%

2013

2014

2015

Favorability in the IOs

Argentina

Chile

Colombia

France

Mexico

Peru

2013

2014

2015

86

78

83

88

80

77

88

82

88

81

81

80

78

83

89

77

78

87

1Hay Group. The data do not take into account the 
International Businesses Management area, the offi ce in 
Buenos Aires responsible for coordinating all the International 
Operations.
2Consolidated data for Brazil and the International Operations
3Consolidated data for the International Operations. 

WHO WE ARE

Our culture

Natura’s 
Mission
_

“We are Natura. 
Inspired by Our Essence
and our proximity with nature, 
science and technology,
we propose to expand and mobilize 
our Relationship Network,
in pursuit of creative solutions 
in pursuit of 
that promote a life of
beauty, pleasure and 
sustainability, all at once.”
sustainability, all at once.

BASED  ON THE  fundaments of Our 
Essence, we have sought to provide more practical 
orientation in the conduct of routine company 
activities, synthesizing our Mission as members 
of Natura. To do this, we organized encounters 
with employees in Brazil and in the International 
Operations and listened to the founders and the 
Executive Committee. Now this text and the 
concepts within it will be disseminated throughout 
the company’s operations so that everyone may 
be more closely attuned with the goals set forth in 
our strategy.

The Natura Mission will be part of our 
routine until we are sure it has been incorporated 
into organizational culture. This work was initiated 
at the end of last year, with the presentation of 
the new mission in awareness workshops and 
management meetings. “It was very interesting to 
see how people were able to recognize themselves 
and connect key elements of the Mission with their 
experience in Natura”, said CEO Roberto Lima, 
who led the initial encounters.

The next step will be to connect the Mission 

with all the Natura management mechanisms, 
from strategic planning to managing performance 
indicators, ensuring an ongoing, focused direction 
in decision making. In parallel, we will seek to 
incorporate the mission into all our systems, symbols 
and daily work rituals, so that employees will 
internalize it as the purpose which reinforces the links 
between us as members of the same organization.

2 1

The key elements of our Mission:

Proximity to nature
For us, nature is the source of life, inspiration and creativity for 
everything we do. Our relationship with nature is one of love.

Science and technology
We study and use traditional and leading edge knowledge. For 
us, access to the best in science and technology is fundamental 
for creating and delivering products and services that value every 
aspect of life.

Relationship Network
We have built the company based on quality relationships. For us, it 
is essential to cultivate relationships, develop dynamics and articulate 
resources for our ecosystem to attract more and more people and 
partners who identify with our purpose.

Creative solutions
We relentlessly pursue the most creative solution for each problem 
we encounter. For Natura, the more creative a solution is, the 
greater its positive impact and the smaller its negative impact will be 
for all concerned.

Beauty, pleasure and sustainability, all at once
We do not separate moments of beauty from moments of pleasure 
or from sustainability. With unbridled enthusiasm, we rise to the 
daily challenge of making beauty, pleasure and sustainability possible 
all at once in each experience provided by Natura. 

How we 
generate 
value

Topics from the 2050 Sustainability Vision 
addressed in this chapter 

Brands and products
Packaging 

Climate change

Social biodiversity

Supply chain 

Waste

Water 

Our Network
Natura Consultants

Communities 

Management and 

organization
Management model

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

In channels

Where and 
how the 
consumer 
wants it  
_

To enhance our business model, 
we are making our products 
available in new channels, 
facilitating the shopping 
experience

Consultant Márcia 

Carvalheira’s store 

was transformed by 

the Vitrine project

C ONSUME RS ARE AT THE   

heart of our strategy. We strive to offer 
them the best brand experience, as well 
as fulfilling their needs in terms of access 
to and use of products. We are attuned to 
the demands of modern life in large urban 
centers and to new consumption habits. 
In a world undergoing transformation 
at an accelerated rate, the demand for 
practicality, speed and convenience is 
growing. This consumer is also more 
demanding when it comes to quality and 
price, given the more extensive offer of 
brands and products. 

advantage of an extensive and relevant 
product portfolio, with certain lines readily 
adaptable for sale in retail channels, as well 
as a brand that enjoys broad consumer 
acceptance.

Natura identified the daily beauty 

care brand Sou as being ideal for 
commercialization in drugstores. As a 
rapidly expanding channel, drugstores 
have also gained increasing importance 
for consumers. Our first experiment was 
initiated in September, in partnership with 
stores in the Raia Drogasil chain in the 
Campinas region of São Paulo.

Faced with this new reality, in 2015 
Natura introduced its multichannel sales 
model. We realized we had the major 

The results confirmed the success 
of the strategy, with sales volume higher 
than expected in the first months. In the 

29 stores participating in the pilot test, 
the Sou brand became the best seller in 
specific categories, such as bar soap. In 
March 2016, the project was extended to 
include the rest of the state of São Paulo 
and is scheduled to go nationwide by July.

One of the company’s initial 
concerns regarding the project was the 
potential impact of commercializing Sou 
in drugstores on Natura Consultant 
(NC) sales. Surveys showed no significant 
differences in business for consultants 
in the Campinas region. “The survey 
will be conducted on a monthly basis. 
We do not want to create competition 
between channels, but this new space is 
further strengthening the brand, driving 

sales across all channels”, says Herlan 
Paiva, Natura New Businesses manager. 
Additionally, local NCs claim that 
advertising to promote the brand has 
benefited them.

Support for NC 
entrepreneurs

Márcia Carvalheira has been an NC 
for some 20 years. A resident of the city 
of Osasco in São Paulo, she started her 
career selling door-to-door. Encouraged by 
the good results, she saw an opportunity to 
become an entrepreneur and expand her 

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HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

The Sou product line 

passed the sales test 

in Raia Drogasil stores 

in São Paulo state. 

On the opposite page, 

a prototype of the 

stores for shopping 

malls

network. She put together a small stock for 
off-the-shelf sales and opened a store on a 
busy street in the city.

Some time ago, Natura recognized 

that consultants like Márcia with an 
aptitude for this business format could 
represent an opportunity to drive 
improved sales for both parties. The 
company then  developed a model to 
leverage the productivity of consultants 
with their own points of sale, most of 
which are multibrand, in off-the-shelf 
sales. In partnership with these NCs, the 
company created a plan that encompasses 
training, point of sale activation and 
commercial management, achieving 
impressive results with the first 100 sales 
outlets in the states of São Paulo, Rio 
de Janeiro and Paraná that had met the 
required criteria in terms of business 
maturity and sales volume.

To strengthen these small businesses, 
Natura introduced its Vitrine (Showcase) 
project, involving the revitalization of the 
stores and the provision of support for 
the NCs to enhance their businesses. 
Márcia’s store was one of the first to 

benefit from this initiative at the end 
of 2014. Going beyond decoration, the 
proposal incorporates a new architecture 
for the Natura space in these outlets, 
valuing company products and consumer 
contact with the brand. As part of the 
project, a sales supervisor accompanies the 
consultant providing her with sales support 
and communication materials. 

The outlets receiving this support 
have increased their average gross income 
by around 18%. For Márcia, sales  have 
grown by 45%, “in spite of the tough 
economic situation”, as she says. “The 
most impor tant aspect of this project is 
the relationship Natura has established 
with me. I have learned a lot from the 
supervisor. Thanks to her, I am now aware 
of things that I used to do more intuitively, 
such as choosing the products to display in 
the shop window in accordance with the 
season”, she explains. “The learning goes 
both ways, because our teams are also 
benefiting from their first experience in 
retail, which will be invaluable for company 
strategy”, adds Segments manager 
Edimilson Miguel.

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Natura stores are on their way
_

We also want to expand 

communication of our value proposition 
by means of company-owned Natura 
stores in shopping malls, with inaugurations 
beginning in 2016. In addition to increasing 
opportunities for contact with customers 
who do not usually buy via the direct sale 
channel and to ensuring off-the-shelf product 
delivery, these stores will help the company 
to identify trends more efficiently and will 
serve as an environment for experimenting 
with products and services.

In 2015, we developed the store 
format and tested the model in a temporary 
initiative. During this time, the area was 
presented to investors, consumers, NCs and 
other groups, who were asked to assess two 
architectural plans and the purchase model.

In these stores, which should carry part 

of our portfolio (such as the best selling lines 
and classic Natura products), the objective is 
to provide the consumer with an enjoyable 
shopping experience, to expand visibility and 
to strengthen the brand, as well as to drive 
increased sales.

“With the Natura stores, sales of the 
Sou line in drugstores, the consultant run 
points of sale and the Rede Natura, we 
expect to make it easier for the consumer 
to acquire our products, offering a true 
omnichannel experience. We want to 
be present in the most suitable location 
and format for our consumers”, states 
Roberto Lima. “We are sure that these new 
opportunities to buy Natura products will 
further strengthen the direct sale channel, 
because they will boost the visibility of our 
products, increasing consumer interest.”

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

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In channels

New
formats
for direct 
selling 
_

Technology is an ally for the 
consultant, driving agility and 
deeper relations, as well as 
higher sales

Above, image from

the Você Conect@ 

launch campaign for 

our consultants.

At the side, the app 

that offers new means 

of payment and 

streamlines sales 

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

CURR ENTLY THE  company 

is supported by more than 1.37 million 
Natura Consultants (NCs) in Brazil and over 
505,000 in the International Operations, 
who commercialize Natura products in an 
independent, non-exclusive manner. We 
envisage major opportunities to further 
direct selling based on the advance of digital 
technologies and have invested constantly in 
transforming electronic tools into enablers 
for the NCs’ businesses. “If the consumer has 
changed her habits and is now to be found 
everywhere, the NCs need to be prepared 
to serve them via different purchasing 
channels”, says Networks vice president, João 
Paulo Ferreira.

Similarly, studies undertaken in 
2015 also helped us gain more in-depth 
understanding of the consultant profi les 
in our network. We identifi ed consultants 
who sell our products only as a means of 

complementing their income, others who are 
more entrepreneurial, some who specialize 
in determined product categories, such as 
hair or facial care, and ones who provide 
more detailed consultancy, recommending 
the most appropriate products according to 
the specifi c characteristics of each client.
In the coming years we intend to 

provide customized service, training and 
communication in accordance with the 
reality of each NC. In conjunction with 
management by micro-region of the country, 
this information will help enhance CRM 
(customer relationship management) and 
our relationship strategy with the sales 
channel.

Connected consultants

Launched in August 2015, Você 
Conect@ is a suite of digital tools including 

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HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

Rede Natura

a chip that offers exclusive benefi ts in data 
use, an application for sending in orders and 
a credit and debit card reader. These three 
essential resources enable mobile sales for 
the NCs at special internet access rates, 
below market tariffs. 

The service combo on offer provides 

a series of additional benefi ts. There is no 
charge for data sent to the Natura website, 
for the order capture application, the card 
reader and the social networks. The plan 
adopted is the pay-as-you-go model, the 
most affordable in the market.

The Você Conect@ suite was 

developed to facilitate and speed up the sales 
process, to boost connectivity and to further 
consultant interaction with Natura and with 
clients, in addition to offering consumers 
a new means of payment. For Natura, the 
project also enables easy, direct and speedy 
communication with consultants. “The combo 
is very affordable, reinforcing digital inclusion 
by providing easy access to information and 
to diverse services”, says vice president of 
Digital Technology, Agenor Leão. Shortly, this 

service developed in partnership with the 
telecom operator Claro and the PagSeguro 
network, will be extended to NCs in the 
International Operations.

Rede Natura upgrades 
technology and reaches 
Chile

Our technology initiatives have 
accelerated the consultants’ adaptation to 
new consumer behavior, supporting them 
in interactions in new environments and 
generating synergies between face-to-face 
and virtual relationship. In 2013, we launched 
the Rede Natura (Natura Network) website, 
a model unlike any other in the world in 
which the Natura Consultant (NC) continues 
to be the link between the company and the 
end customer.

In 2015, Rede Natura coverage was 
extended nationwide and was introduced 

60,000
digital consultants

60% of the NCs 
work on a hybrid basis, 
combining sales in the 
traditional environment and 
in the virtual space

700,000 consumers 
registered

in Chile. As part of our quest to integrate 
and streamline operations throughout 
Latin America, the launch of the platform 
was brought forward. Initially scheduled 
for 2016, it was possible to accelerate this 
launch given the robustness of the Natura 
Operations and Logistics infrastructure 
following fi ve years of heavy investments 
(read more on page 32). 

Thus, the company has consolidated 

digital cosmetics sales in an innovative 
format. Using the Rede Natura, the 
consultants commercialize the products 
and relate to their customers via a digital 
franchise system. In Brazil, Natura already 
has 60,000 NCs registered on this platform, 
with 60% of them working on a hybrid basis 
– combining physical and internet sales and 
leveraging the synergies between the two 
channels.“Revenues already position us as 
one of the leading cosmetics e-commerce 
stores in Brazil. Moreover, the operation 
reached break even just nine months after 
implantation, proving that it is a resounding 
success”, explains Rede Natura director 
Murillo Boccia.

Enhancements were introduced in the 

platform during 2015, such as the launch 
of the Natura Sempre Presente application 
at Christmas. Using a cell phone camera, 
the app can identify photos of company 
products and automatically add them to 
the consumer’s shopping cart within the 
Rede Natura.

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Você 
Conect@
–

Pay-as-you-go service package 
and special rates for NCs using 
mobile devices

90 ,000

chips distributed

200 ,000

downloads of the 
application

7%

of the consultants’ 
orders already use 
the new tool

45 ,000

card terminals 
sold

Numbers for August to December 2015

 
 
Innovation

Expanding 
frontiers 
to innovate 
_

We want a more global process 
driving greater differentiation, 
speed and relevance for the 
consumer

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

years  – stood at 58.9%.

Because Natura products are 

manufactured in different locations: in 
Brazil, in the International Operations, and 
by partners, the company created a group 
dedicated to the transfer of technology 
and knowledge. “We need to ensure that 
innovation can be readily transferred to all of 
these countries and leverage the use of local 
inputs, reducing social and environmental 
impacts, as well as production costs”, Gerson 
explains. 

Well-being as seen by 
science

A strategic partnership with the 
São Paulo research foundation Fapesp 
(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do 
Estado de São Paulo) will result in the 
Center for Research into Well-Being. The 
goal is to develop a sound knowledge 

NAT UR A’S VOCATION for 

innovation enables the company to promote 
advances in processes and in its portfolio, 
making them more and more global. We 
invest in areas of research which, when 
interconnected and combined, generate, 
expand and disseminate knowledge, delivering 
benefits for our entire relationship network.

The innovation structure comprises 
centers in São Paulo and in the Amazon 
region, a hub for capturing trends and forming 
partnerships in the United States, as well as 
the Aesop innovation unit in Australia. This 
structure is leveraged by a global network 
consisting of more than 200 researchers and 
institutions (including the MIT in Boston, the 
Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus 
and the University of São Paulo). 

In 2015, Natura maintained its 
investments in innovation, channeling 3% 
of the company’s net revenues or R$ 221 
million to this area. These funds support a 
broad spectrum of initiatives, ranging from 
gaining greater insight into consumers, 
their preferences and the active principles 
that scientifically fulfill their demands, to 
strengthening the partner network to drive a 
global innovation process. 

Measures include connection via digital 

technology as a means of expanding the 
boundaries of cosmetics and the quality of 
the consumer experience, for example, by 
offering applications that help consumers 

base through the integration of 
diverse areas such as neuroscience, 
positive and social psychology, and 
applied health, human and social 
sciences. 

The project has been under 
development for three years. The 
scientific proposal incorporates 
the technical experience of an 
acclaimed group of more than 40 
scientists and their teams. Planned 
as a joint investment with Fapesp 
until 2026, the Center will be 
launched in 2016. The partnership 
will include the University of São 
Paulo (USP), where the project will 
be housed,the Federal University 
of São Paulo (Unifesp) and the 
Mackenzie Presbyterian University. 

The collaboration entails a shared 
governance model. Investment will total R$ 
40 million, divided among all the partners. 
“It is a unique model for an integrated 
center involving a Brazilian company, in 
an unprecedented field of research in the 
academic world”, says Luciana Hashiba, 
director of Innovation Networks at Natura.

Ucuuba is our new jewel

Innovation 
Indicators

2015

2014

2013

221

216

239

220

207

179

67.9

63.4

58.9

Investment in
innovation 
(R$ million)

Number of 
products 
launched1

Innovation 
Rate 
(%)2

diagnose the needs of their skin or hair.“We 
are pursuing greater differentiation, greater 
speed and greater relevance, within a more 
global approach”, states Natura vice president 
of Innovation Gerson Pinto.

All company efforts are channeled 
into achieving this differentiation in terms of 
shorter time-to-market for the consumer 
and greater internationalization in the 
entire innovation process. As a result of this 
readjustment, the company launched fewer 
products 2015 (220 compared with 239 in 
2014), and the innovation rate – that is the 
percentage of revenues obtained from the 
sale of products launched in the last two 

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company’s pursuit of innovative ways 
of doing business, allying technological 
research and dialogue with supplier 
communities in the Amazon region.

The line, comprising moisturizing 
products, has been developed based on the 
fruit of the ucuuba tree. In cosmetic terms, 
the tree is a true jewel of the Amazon 
region. The butter extracted from the seed 
contains a combination of fatty acids such 
as trimyristin (a compound rarely found in 
nature, but present in large quantities in 
the ucuuba), responsible for its lightness 
and smoothness, providing prolonged and 
heightened moisturizing, together with 
velvety, dry-touch textures. The body 
care products both nourish the skin while 
forming a film that protects it. 

Research and development for the 
product took three years. Normally, the 
greater the moisturizing power of products 
in this category, the heavier their texture 
and greasiness to the touch. Natura Ekos 
Ucuuba restorative butter for the body 
and dry skin ruptures this paradigm by 
delivering prolonged moisturizing for up to 
48 hours together with a light texture. This 
feature is captured in the product’s main 
slogan – the light butter from the Amazon.

The product also drives social and 
environmental benefits. Commercialization 
of the ucuuba seeds is essential for 
reducing degradation of the species. The 
ucuuba tree is threatened with extinction 
due to increased exploitation for timber 
over the last 30 years. The wood is used 
to make stakes, broom handles, door 
frames and roofing. We believe that 
the new Ekos Ucuuba line presents an 
opportunity to reverse this predatory cycle 
by redefining the value of this asset and 
its role in the production chain, generating 
income based on a forestry rather than 
a timber product: the seed. By doing so, 
the conscious harvesting of the seed will 
enable sustainable stewardship of the 
species while keeping the forest standing, 
thus benefiting 15 communities comprising 
some 600 families.

1Includes only products that represent a new value 

proposition for the consumer. It does not include product 

combinations in kits that receive new sales codes or 

Believing is Seeing (Crer para Ver) products, accessories and 

NC support materials.  2 The innovation rate is the total 

The launch of the Ekos Ucuuba line 
last year is the most recent result of the 

contribution to annual gross revenue of products launched in 

the last two years. The result only takes Brazil into account.

New products 
in the market
–

Natura’s main product
launches in 2015

Amis
New line 
of women’s 
fragrances for 
pre-teens.

Natura Homem
Relaunch of the sub-
brand colognes, with a 
new fragrance based 
on woody notes.

Ekos Ucuuba
and Murumuru
Two new active 
principles, the 
former never used 
before in cosmetics.

Esta Flor
Two fragrances based on 
the aroma of fl owers, the 
proposition being to develop 
a monothematic collection of 
aromas, unique in Brazil.

Una
The new items in the 
line are a deodorant 
oil for the body and a 
moisturizer.

Tez
New line for women who 
appreciate practicality. It 
comprises moisturizers, soap 
and multipurpose wipes 
(clean, exfoliate, tonify, remove 
make up and moisturize). 

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Faces
New items for the collection, including a 
blue lipstick. In addition to a new tone, the 
lipstick may be mixed with others in the 
line to make completely different colors.

A win-win
cycle for all
_

Ekos Ucuuba is the most recent 
example of our efforts to deliver 
functional attributes, reduce social 
and environmental impacts and 
boost value generation for all our 
stakeholder groups

The Natura Consultant 
and sales 
Our NC network is an ally in transmitting 

our product values and concepts.

The consultants receive training in product 

attributes and the benefi ts of using them, 

so that they are better prepared to provide 

orientation for consumers.

Product conception 
Transforming social and environmental 

challenges into innovative business, 

combining technology and dialogue 

with partners, is part of the company’s 

innovation strategy.

Eco-efficient
packaging

Composition of bottle:

50% green PET,

made from renewable
plant-based material

50% post-consumer 

recycled PET

One out of every

two packs produced 
returns to the cycle

40% of the cartons

are made from post-consumer
recycled paper

The role played
by cooperatives
Working with cooperatives is 

essential to ensure the volume 

and quality of recycled material 

necessary for production.

Currently, we are testing a pilot 

initiative to implement logistics for 

the return of packaging after use 

by the consumer, promoting the 

expansion of this production chain.

Product usage
The product line includes 

moisturizer for the body, 

a hand butter and moisturizing 

body deodorant. 

Recycling 
By means of product communication 

and orientation provided by the Natura 

Consultants, we encourage consumers 

to recycle. We provide refi lls for a large 

part of our portfolio, and we support 

communication measures aimed at 

conscious resource consumption.

Suppliers receive 
benefits 
15 communities

in Amazonas and Pará

600 families
Income is 3 times higher

for the communities in which
the ucuuba tree is preserved.

Traditional 
Knowledge 
The riverside communities in 
the Amazon use the ucuuba to 
make medicinal teas, candles, 
incense, as well as in preparations 
to restore the skin. Combining 
traditional knowledge with 
technology derived from 
research and development, the 
company discovered that the 
butter extracted from the seeds 
is a powerful moisturizer

Natura 
performance 
in the Amazon
_

Cumulative business volume in the 
Amazon region (R$ million)1

752

385

582

2013

2014

2015

Purchase of Amazonian inputs (%)2

13.4

13.3

12.3

2013

2014

2015

Communities with which Natura 
maintains relations 

32

33

30

2013

2014

2015

Families benefi ting3

3,117

3,121

2,251

2013

2014

2015

Direct income per family
(R$ thousand)

6.6

3.0

2.3

2013

2014

2015

1Cumulative value since 2012. 2 Percentage of Pan-Amazonian raw 
materials purchased in relation to total Natura raw material purchases.
3In addition to a reduction in the number of supplier communities from 
33 to 30, there was a change in the methodology for counting the 
number of families. Previously the number of associated and partnering 
suppliers was monitored. With the introduction of the tracing system, 
since 2015 all the families have been registered and georeferenced, 
ensuring greater control over this number.

Keeping the forest 
standing is a good deal
By purchasing the fruit to produce cosmetics, 
Natura creates the possibility of reversing 
the predatory  cycle threatening the species, 
generating income based on a non-timber  
forestry product. Community members 
are instructed to harvest only 50% of the 
fruit. The remainder falls in the water and is 
carried away, ensuring the continuity of the 
germination process

The species
The ucuuba tree grows in 
waterlogged and fl ooded areas and 
is threatened with extinction due 
to increased exploitation for timber 
over the last 30 years.

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

Operations and logistics

The best service 
_

Our vocation to serve gained 
recognition for Natura as the best 
in customer service in the country

The Itupeva 
Hub facility in 
São Paulo

IN 2015,  NATURA WAS considered the best 
company in customer service in Brazil in a survey conducted 
by Exame magazine in par tnership with the IBRC, (the Brazilian 
Customer Relationship Institute or Instituto Brasileiro de 
Relacionamento com o Cliente). The survey was conducted 
among some 5 thousand people in 143 cities. 

Since 2011, a series of measures have been implanted 

to enhance relations with the Natura Consultants (NCs) and 
consumers. For example, a basket of more than 70 indicators 
has been created to monitor the quality of services for NCs. 
Information on factors such as delivery time, product non-
availability and billing errors is monitored during each sales 
cycle (which lasts on average 21 days) and used to enhance 
management.

Last year, the company star ted to incentivize managers 

throughout the company to gain first hand-experience of 
these challenges. In the new leadership development program, 
managers are required to accompany and par ticipate in key 

activities throughout the Natura production process, right down 
to delivery of the product to the home of the consultant or 
end consumer. “We are working on continuously improving our 
customer service culture, discussing how we relate to customers 
and the impact our activities and practices have on satisfaction 
and loyalty both inside and outside the company”, says Josie 
Romero, vice president of Operations and Logistics.

Technology boosts logistics 
efficiency 

Ser vice excellence is also a reflex of the logistics 
investments the company has under taken in recent years. In 
May of last year, we inaugurated the hub in Itupeva (São Paulo), 
a warehouse for the products that leave the company plants in 
Cajamar and those manufactured by par tners installed in the 
region - our main suppliers are located within a 40-kilometer 

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HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

“We are working on continuously 
improving our customer service 
culture, discussing how we relate 
to customers and the impact our 
activities and practices have on 
satisfaction and loyalty both inside 
and outside the company”

Josie Romero, vice president of Operations and Logistics

Service levels in Brazil (%)

2015

2014

2013

97

95.5

84

6.8

4.5

4.2

73

71

42

38

15

On-time 
deliveries 

Deliveries in up 
to 48 hours 

Customer 
service index1

Average delivery 
time (days)

1Index comprising 52 service indicators for consultants and the end consumer, such as registration, exchange and services. The methodology was 
changed in 2014 to generate greater insight into impacts on the customer. We do not have a 2013 index covering the same scope.

radius of the facility. The hub supplies Natura distribution centers 
in Brazil and in the International Operations. Close to Viracopos 
airport and the São Paulo Rodoanel ring road, the facility enables 
rapid connection with a number of key highways, the port of 
Santos and the São Paulo distribution center (Natura’s largest, 
which began operating at full capacity in the beginning of 2016).

A new link in the logistics chain, the hub is the most modern 
of its kind in the Americas. It is highly automated, with technologies 
that are in use in only two other facilities worldwide. Operated by 
robots, products are stored both in boxes and pallets. The 35,000 
m2 of built area comprises 90,000 pallet and 35,000 box positions. 
The system is organized around triangulation between the 

plants in Cajamar, the Itupeva warehouse and the São Paulo 
distribution center, in a highly agile closed loop. Trailers equipped 
with automatic platforms designed especially by Natura permit 
loading and unloading in a question of minutes, halving the number 
of trucks required for the logistics operations between the plants, 
the hub and the São Paulo distribution center. 

For the more distant distribution centers, such as Salvador 
(Bahia), Jaboatão dos Guararapes (Pernambuco) and Castanhal 
(Pará), the hub is able to ship cargo in bulk (without pallets, the 
cartons are stacked and receive special protection). This means 
these long distances may be covered using a third fewer truck 
trailers: today two trailers transport the same volume of cargo as 
three under the old system, representing a significant reduction in 
CO2 emissions. 

The new processes reduce inventories and improve 
operating costs (estimated monthly savings in logistics costs are 
R$ 1 million). Investments in the equipment and systems installed 
at the Itupeva hub totaled R$ 73 million. “We are preparing the 
company for the forthcoming growth in sales and are learning  
how to manage inventories and logistics for the company’s 
evolving requirements, including supplying the Natura Consultant 
points of sale, the drugstores commercializing the Sou product 
line and our own stores”, comments Angel Medeiros, director of 
Logistics Innovation.

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HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

In our processes

The measure of 
sustainability  
_

By mapping and disclosing 
environmental externalities 
throughout its value chain, Natura 
takes a major step towards 
building the new capitalism

The use of 
biodiversity assets 
in our products 
is an incentive to 
conserve forests 
and promote 
sustainable 
stewardship 

OVE R THE PAST 50 YEARS, 
the wear on ecosystems has occurred more 
rapidly than at any other time in world 
history. Consumption of the Earth’s resources 
has generated unprecedented advances in 
prosperity for mankind, but the price has 
been high: atmospheric concentrations of 
greenhouse gases (GHG) are reaching very 
dangerous levels, with the potential to raise 
the planet’s average temperature between 
4°C and 6°C by the end of the century, 
which could be catastrophic. 

Faced with this situation, companies 

have a key role to play by reducing the 
environmental degradation caused by their 
activities and helping to contain the threat 
to conditions for life on the planet. To be 
able to plan this reduction more effectively, 
corporations need to find ways to take 
natural capital into account throughout 
their business value chains. Having access to 
reliable numbers makes it easier to reduce 
negative impacts and to leverage positive 
ones (for example, by innovating in materials 
and production processes).

When a company is able to map its 
environmental externalities and disclose 
this information, it creates a degree of 

transparency which is extremely important 
for its stakeholders. Investors can take 
decisions based on the environmental risks 
and the opportunities for innovation a 
company presents. Similarly, customers have 
the chance to select products and services 
based on the environmental footprint 
the company discloses. In this regard, the 
valuation of impacts generates the possibility 
of modifying consumer preferences and 
attracting investment to companies that are 
engaged in building a new, more responsible 
and more sustainable capitalism.   

In 2015, Natura endeavored to 
measure its impacts on the environment. 
To better understand our current situation 
and provide a basis for future decision 
making, the company undertook a study to 
calculate the financial cost of the business’s 
impacts and the ultimate consequences of 
these for society. The study was based on 
factors such as GHG emissions, water, waste 
and land use and occupation. This is known 
as Environmental Profit and Loss or EP&L 
Accounting. For some time, the company has 
been implanting environmentally conscious 
decisions, including the use of organic alcohol 
in all of its production (alcohol is one of the 

main ingredients in perfumery) and  replacing 
fossil-based ingredients with plant-based 
substitutes (83% of our formulations come 
from renewable sources). 

The EP&L will drive learning that will 

enable us to reexamine our innovation, 
distribution and production processes, 
among others. This in turn will ensure greater 
quality in strategic decision making at Natura, 
helping the company to achieve its 2050 
Sustainability Vision.

The weight of emissions 

GHG emissions represent the greatest 
impact among all the factors measured and 
are distributed along the length of the value 
chain. As far back as 2007, aware of the 
need to combat and prevent climate change, 
the company created the Natura Carbon 
Neutral Program to drive a significant ongoing 
reduction in GHG emissions, from the 
extraction of raw materials to the destination 
of post-consumer packaging. 

Natura is a Carbon Neutral company 

– that is, it offsets all its emissions, taking 
into account both its own processes and 

others throughout the production chain. 
This compensation involves the purchase 
of carbon credits (investment in projects 
promoting reforestation, waste treatment or 
the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable 
or more efficient ones). In parallel with 
this offsetting, we will continue to pursue 
significant reductions in our relative carbon 
emissions throughout the value chain. Our 
ambition is to achieve a 33% reduction in 
relative carbon emissions by 2020 against base 
year 2012. 

The main positive highlight in the EP&L is 
the biodiversity assets the company uses in its 
products.  They promote the conservation of 
forests and sustainable stewardship practices, 
which in turn contribute towards regulating 
the climate, for example through controlling 
atmospheric pollution and maintaining the 
water balance. Other benefits are also made 
clear in the EP&L statement, such as those 
derived from the use of organic alcohol. 

In 2013 alone, the positive value 

generated by the company’s sustainable 
practices was in excess of 900 thousand reais. 
And EP&L accounting has also proven to be 
a powerful internal management tool for our 
business units.

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Innovations in 
methodology

The valuation of externalities is a new 

model applied by few companies in the 
world. With support from the consultancy 
PwC, Natura is the first company in Latin 
America to conduct an in-depth EP&L 
assessment of its businesses. 

Since this is an emerging methodology, 

a number of metrics still need to be 
improved or adapted for different realities. 
This is the case, for example, with the 
impacts caused by the use of products 
during showering and bathing, which 
involves heating the water (normally done 
using electricity) and the generation of 
waste which frequently ends up not being 
disposed of properly, polluting rivers and 
oceans. We continue to work on measuring 
this type of impact, so that our methods will 
reflect all the environmental ramifications of 
our operations.

The assessment of the impact 

of biodiversity assets on land use and 
occupation also required methodological 
innovations. The inputs for this indicator 
included factors such as the wealth of 
species and vegetation coverage existent 

before cultivation of the raw materials 
used by Natura was initiated. From the 
standpoint of preserving the forests, the 
results have been positive. “When we 
started buying inputs such as fruits and nuts, 
we generated economic value for the local 
communities and provided an incentive 
for keeping the forest standing”, explains 
Luciana Villa Nova, Sustainability manager 
at Natura.

Global movement

We believe companies must go beyond 
merely reducing or attenuating their impacts: 
they need to drive the improvement of 
the environment and the society around 
them. Based on this understanding, we got 
together with a group of organizations 
and other global companies to develop 
a protocol for the valuation of positive 
and negative environmental impacts. The 
Natural Capital Protocol is a movement 
led by the World Business Council for 
Sustainable Development (WBCSD) 
comprising environmental organizations, 
representatives from the academic world 
and companies operating in different 

Meeting with Natura shareholders: financial, social and environmental results

segments. It is sponsored by: the Gordon and 
Betty Moore Foundation, the Swiss Ministry 
of the Economy and the Dutch Ministry 
of International Relations, by means of the 
World Bank.

Natura and another nine companies 

(including Kering, Roche, Nestlé, Shell 
and Holcim) are conducting pilot tests 
which will help to adapt the protocol for 
application in different economic sectors. 
Additionally, we are members of the B-Team, 
another participant in the coalition for 
the construction of the protocol,  which 
is striving to expand the concept of 
corporate responsibility beyond financial 
gains to encompass both negative and 
positive contributions to the economy, the 
environment and society.

We intend to share this learning with 

other Brazilian companies. “We do not 
want to restrict this knowledge to our 
own business. Valuation is an extremely 
new question. We would like to be able to 
discuss the dilemmas and challenges involved 
with a network of other companies”, 
Natura’s director of Sustainability Marcelo 
Alonso states.

In Brazil, our goal is to mobilize a 
network of entrepreneurs to discuss what 
we have learned from our first environmental 
profit and loss assessment. Together with 
other companies interested in this question, it 
would be possible to drive improvements in 
the metrics for our specific local context. 

Factors such as the positive effects 
of the sustainable stewardship of social 
biodiversity are still difficult to calculate 
in financial terms. It is also necessary to 
take into account challenges such as waste 
management in a local context when there 
is no accurate information about the final 
destination of packaging and products 
– which can, for example impact water 
resources. “We want to get the discussion 
started in Brazil, which is where our main 
operations are, but with time, also expand it 
to our international operations”, Luciana Villa 
Nova concludes.

In our Sustainability Vision, we 
assumed the commitment of integrating 
environmental and social effects into 
Natura’s economic results by 2020. 
Attributing a value to these non-financial 
aspects will enable comparison with the 
wealth that we produce and distribute and 
represents a decisive step towards drafting 
the actions that will bring us to an even 
more ambitious target. By 2050, we intend 
to be a company that generates a positive 
total impact in all its dimensions of activity: 
economic, environmental, social and cultural.

Thus, the next step will be the valuation 

of the impacts and the benefits generated 
by the business for the social development 
of communities, incentives for employment 
and enterprise, through the construction of a 
SP&L (Social Profit and Loss) assessment for 
the company.

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Social biodiversity

Valuing the 
Amazon 
_

Development in the region 
must go beyond generating 
income for families

We engage riverside 

communities to 

identify the real 

impact on the region

FOR  SOME 15 YEARS we 

have been acquiring plant-based assets 
from communities in the Amazon region. 
This partnership involves approximately 
2,000 families and is aimed at developing 
sustainable production chains in a standing 
forest economy – one in which the trees are 
worth more alive than felled. Despite having 
strengthened local leadership, generated work 
and boosted family incomes, we realized 
that this was not enough to impact social 
development in the region at scale.

“The communities in the Amazon 
face many challenges. This was why we felt 
we needed to go further. To not just measure 
how much income we generated for the 
region, but to understand how we could truly 
improve people’s quality of life”, says Renata 
Puchala, Sustainability manager at Natura. 
In 2015, we established an unprecedented 
partnership. Together with the communities, 
public partners, NGOs and local companies, 
we developed the Community Social Progress 
Index (IPS in the Portuguese acronym). This 
was used to measure quality of life and well-
being in the riverside communities along the 

Juruá River in Carauari (Amazonas). As the 
basis for the index we used the principles 
of the global Social Progress Index which is 
applied in more than 150 countries. This index 
was developed by Michael Porter and utilizes 
52 social and environmental indicators.

The Communities Social Progress Index 

influenced the activities of the Mid-Juruá 
Territorial Development Forum – a multisector 
body that fosters development in the region. 
2015 saw some important achievements: 
remodeling of an oilseed mill, driving a 25% 
gain in efficiency, the construction of a pier 
more than 1 km long to facilitate product 
flow, as well as access to basic sanitation and 
treated water for more than 50% of the 
region’s families. In the education area, we 
offered vocational programs, courses in forestry 
and sustainable development, in addition to a 
sustainable fishery stewardship project for the 
pirarucu species.

Our activities in the Amazon also include 

institutional partnerships for the donation of 
computers, benefiting more than 600 families 
(in Amapá, Amazonas, Pará and Rondônia). 
Moreover, we provided support for the 

Associação Regional das Casas Familiares 
Rurais do Pará, which runs 30 community 
schools in the state, providing secondary 
technical education for 2,300 young people. 
We also work with the Rede de Apoio à 
Educação in 27 municipal districts in the 
Baixo Tocantins region in northeastern Pará, 
in partnership with the Instituto Natura – 
whose programs to improve teaching quality 
have impacted 2,340 schools in the area, 
benefiting 476,000 students. These initiatives 
are coordinated by the Amazônia Program, 
created by Natura in 2011 with the objective 
of promoting a new development model for 
the region.

Surrounding 
communities

Generating a positive impact for the 
people living in the areas surrounding Natura 
facilities is one of the directives in the 2050 
Sustainability Vision. Currently, priority is being 
given to the municipalities of Benevides (Pará) 
and Cajamar (São Paulo), where we have 

plants, as well as the Jaguara district in the city 
of São Paulo, where the São Paulo distribution 
center is located. In 2015, we established 
partnerships with other companies, the local 
communities, NGOs and civil society and 
drafted a Local Development Plan for each of 
these locations. 

Among the main achievements, worthy 

of note was social mobilization in the form 
of movements like “Comunidade Viva” in 
Jaguara, and “Inova Cajamar”. In the former, 
improvements were made in public cultural and 
leisure areas, with the revitalization of squares 
and the organization of workshops; in the 
latter, the focus was on improving the quality 
of basic education for 18 schools and 6,500 
students, as well as the creation of a Citizen 
Observatory, based on the Sustainable Cities 
program, which enables greater community 
participation in public affairs. In Benevides, the 
educational improvement projects involved 31 
schools and 8,000 students. In partnership with 
SENAI and SEBRAE, the company was involved 
in programs to promote vocational training 
and foster the development of local micro and 
small companies.

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HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

Our
version
of the HDI 
_

Information gathering 
system tracks indicators 
on consultants’ health, 
knowledge and standard 
of living

Valéria Borsoni, 
NC, Mara Menezes, 
Relationship 
Manager, and Nice 
Soares, NCA: en 
route to human 
development 

DOES  WORKING AS A NATURA Consultant 

make a difference to people’s human development? We 
used this question as a star ting point to gain more in-depth 
understanding about the influence our commercial model has 
on improving quality of life for the NC network.

Inspired by Human Development Index (HDI) 

methodology, we created a model to sur vey a series of data 
and establish the current standards of living of the NCs and 
monitor their evolution on an annual basis. This is in effect the 
first corporate human development index in the world, tailored 
in accordance with the reality at Natura.

“Because it is the company’s own indicator, the HDI-

NC assesses Natura’s social investment in the NCs and 
their families. As such, the methodology not only measures 
the results of our actions but also ser ves as a management 
instrument, within a differentiated model of social action”, 
explains Cida Franco, Relationship director.

The challenge with the HDI-NC was to create the company’s 

knowledge in areas such as financial literacy, digital inclusion and 
civic awareness. Use of money, knowing the annual inflation rate, 
and patterns of computer and internet use were some of the 
questions surveyed.

The first year was instituted as the baseline for monitoring 

evolution. Between 2014 and 2015, we recorded 7.3% growth 
in the development of the consultants, from 0.550 to 0.590. 
Although it is impossible to compare the HDI-NC with the 
national HDI because of methodological differences, it is 
possible to draw some conclusions in comparison with  
cer tain national indicators. The percentage of NCs who smoke 
(around 4%), for example, is lower than the national average  
of women smokers (9%). Understanding mathematical 
calculations with percentages is a common difficulty for 
beginning NCs, but as the consultant gains experience in the 
activity, her dexterity grows (37% of the NCs have difficulties 
with this type of calculation compared with two thirds of 
women in the national average).

own information gathering system. Like the HDI for countries, 
the Natura study takes three dimensions into account: health, 
knowledge and standard of living. But in our case the information 
was customized in accordance with the reality of the consultants. 
In terms of knowledge, for example, instead of using traditional 
metrics for schooling, we opted to assess the quality of the NCs’ 

The HDI-NC will be monitored on an annual basis and 
will enable the company to produce and fine tune management 
and corporate social investments intrinsically linked with the 
business as a means of influencing and improving quality of life 
for the NCs. Our target is to reach the top of the HDI-NC 
scale, with a score of 1, between 2027 and 2032.

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Education

Transforming 
the Brazilian 
reality
_

For two decades, the 
Believing is Seeing 
line has been funding 
improvements in teaching 
quality at public shcools

OUR I NVOLVEM ENT with 
education goes back to the 1990s, based 
on Natura’s perception that it had a social 
commitment beyond its business activities 
and that it would be possible to engage a 
large network in building a fairer and more 
supportive society.

Thus, in 1995, the Natura Believing 

aimed at enhancing public education. Like 
Natura, the consultants forgo their profit 
from the sale of these products and act 
as promoters of the cause of education. 
Consumers demonstrate their support by 
acquiring the products. And Natura provides 
support with its operating infrastructure, 
managing and investing these funds. 

is Seeing (Crer para Ver) product line was 
created with the intention of mobilizing all 
our employees, Natura Consultants (NCs) 
and partners around the cause of education. 
The income from the sale of these products 
(such as returnable bags, exercise and 
notebooks and pencils) is invested in projects 

In 2010, the company took a further 
key step with the creation of the Instituto 
Natura, a not-for-profit public interest civil 
society (Oscip in the Portuguese acronym), 
with the goal of increasing its contribution to 
quality public education in Brazil and in the 
Latin American countries in which it operates. 

The Instituto Natura assumed responsibility 
for managing and investing the funds raised 
from the sale of the Believing is Seeing line, 
which in 2015 totaled a record of R$ 19.5 
million in Brazil, and R$ 10.5 million in the 
International Operations. In Brazil, more than 
1.1 million consultants contributed to the 
cause by selling at least one item from the 
line during the course of the year.

Based on the vision of “creating a 
foundation upon which people may develop 
a learning community”, the Instituto Natura 
believes in the transformational power of 
education as the key to the development of 
a more cohesive and less unequal society.  

It values lifelong learning, believing that 
we all learn, we all teach and we are all 
responsible. 

“The work the institute does helps to 
strengthen the people and the organizations 
involved in education. The aim is to 
combine the strengths and potential of each 
individual to form  a large, collaborative 
community capable of promoting more 
effective transformational processes and 
environments”, says David Saad, president of 
the Instituto Natura. “This is the dream that 
began 20 years ago with the Natura Believing 
is Seeing line and continues at the core of the 
Instituto Natura’s commitment today.”

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Students at the 
Prof.ª Judith 
Siqueira Weber 
school in Potim 
(São Paulo), 
beneficiaries of 
the Digital School 
project. Below, 
Believing is Seeing 
products, that 
generate funds in 
support of Instituto 
Natura actions

39

Believing is Seeing 
line Funds 1

2015

2014

2013

19.5

18.8

17.1

10.5

6.7

4.8

Believing is Seeing line 
 funding in Brazil  
(R$ million )

Believing is Seeing line 
funding in the International 
Operations (R$ million)

1Refers to income before income tax for the Natura Believing is Seeing Fund.

New steps, the 
same direction
_

In 2015, the Instituto Natura reflected on its vision, initiatives and 
projects based on its learning in five years of activities. During the 
year, Pedro Villares migrated from the position of president to 
chairman of the Instituto Natura Board of Directors. To assume 
executive management and proceed with our dream of offering 
children and young people an effective transformational education 
characterized by social cohesion and equality, we invited David Saad, a 
specialist with vast experience in this area.  Further information about 
these and other Instituto Natura highlights can be found at www.
institutonatura.org.br  (only available in Portuguese).

HOW WE GENERATE VALUE

Natura Musical

All the tones
of Brazil
_

Established artists, new talents 
and training and legacy 
projects make up the repertoire 
of ten years of support for 
Brazilian music

Various trends in 

evidence at the 

Natura Musical 

10th anniversary 

celebration

NEY  MATOGROSSO, Luiz 
Melodia, Carlinhos Brown, Chico César, Elza 
Soares, Nação Zumbi and Arnaldo Antunes 
are some of the hundreds of artists receiving 
support from the Natura Musical program, 
which commemorated ten years of investing 
in valuing Brazilian music. The celebration 
took place in November 2015, in a special 
edition of the Natura Musical Festival held 
on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. 
Sponsored artists, such as Emicida and 
Tulipa Ruiz took their turns on the stage, 
culminating in an historical presentation by 
Gal Costa and Milton Nascimento, who had 

not performed together for 30 years. This 
was the festival’s fifth consecutive year, the 
four previous ones having been held in Belo 
Horizonte (Minas Gerais). 

As has been the case since 2005, in 

2015 the program supported new works – 
for established artists and emerging talents – 
and training and heritage projects.”The album 
A Mulher do Fim do Mundo was an amazing 
present the universe sent me. I am extremely 
happy about everyone who took part in the 
project, and I am very proud of the result”, 
says Elza Soares about the work launched 
with sponsorship from Natura Musical.

“Spending the last six years of my 

life in Paraíba, the place where I was born 
and lived until I was 20, heightened my 
perception of the glaring contradictions 
between the wealth of creativity and 
the relative poverty of the means of 
production”, said the singer and composer 
Chico César. The result is this Estado de 
Poesia, selected in the Natura Musical 
National Tender – undoubtedly an 
outstanding and successful case of innovation 
in relations between private initiative and 
musical production in Brazil. This drives the 
reinvention of people, societies, ways of 

making music, listening to music and loving.”
Natura Musical is preparing a number 

of novelties for music fans for the coming 
years. With inauguration scheduled for 
2017, the Museu da Imagem e do Som 
(MIS) in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 
will have a complete floor dedicated to 
music sponsored by Natura Musical. The 
auditorium, to be named after the Natura 
program, will have programming devoted to 
Brazilian music.

You can hear all the music and 
find out more about Natura Musical at  
www.naturamusical.com.br.

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Sustainability Vision

Not initiated

At planning phase

Under implementation

In Execution

AMBITIONS

Brands and Products

Our Network

Dimension

2020 Ambition

2015 Performance 

        Status* 

Dimension

2020 Ambition

2015 Performance 

        Status* 

Packaging 

Use at least 1% post-consumer 

Natura used 2.9% post-consumer 

Communities

To develop a strategy for the 

Consolidation of the territorial 

recycled material in the total mass 

recycled material in the total mass of 

of Natura Brazil packaging

its packaging 

1.4%

2013

2020

10%

Achieved in 2015
17%

social biodiversity territories in the 

development arrangement in the 

Pan-Amazon region and for the 

mid-Juruá region in partnership 

communities around our main facilities 

with other companies, communities, 

in Brazil, based on dialogue and joint 

NGOs and civil society, achieving 

construction with local populations 

significant progress in the areas of 

In execution

Climate change

Reduce Natura brand relative 

5.8% growth in relative GHG 

and actors

greenhouse gas emissions 

emissions. The indicator is directly 

(scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 33%

linked with business performance; 

however, the reduction compared 

with 2012 was -1.4%

Social biodiversity

Reach R$ 1 billion in business 

The cumulative volume of business 

volume in the Pan-Amazon region

generated in the region corresponds 

to R$ 752 million

0%

2012

2020

-33%

Achieved in 2015
4.2%

R$  
millions

89

2010

2020

1,000

Achieved in 2015
73%

Waste

Collect and channel for recycling 

Natura began a pilot initiative in 

50% of the waste generated by 

partnership with five cooperatives in 

Natura product packaging in Brazil 

Greater São Paulo. 306 metric tons of 

(in t equivalent)

waste collected

In execution

Water

For the Natura brand in Brazil, 

The study for the calculation of the 

implement an impact reduction 

water footprint throughout the value 

and neutralization strategy based 

chain was concluded

on measuring the water footprint 

throughout the value chain

Supply chains

To ensure traceability of 100% 

All the manufacturers in the 1st link of 

of the inputs produced by direct 

the raw material, packaging material 

manufacturers (last link) by 2015 

and finished product value chains 

and implement a traceability 

identified.

program for the other links in the 

Natura brand value chain by 2020

At planning phase

In execution

education, infrastructure, sanitation 

and production chains in the region. 

Implementation of the digital inclusion 

program in the Amazon region, 

benefiting 600 families. Execution of 

projects to improve education in the 

Amazon, reaching more than 400,000 

students

Management and Organization

Dimension

2020 Ambition

2015 Performance 

        Status* 

Management 

For the Natura brand, implement the 

The valuation of environmental 

model

valuation of social and environmental 

externalities was undertaken for 

externalities, taking into account 

the first time in 2015, monetizing 

the positive and negative impacts 

the impacts of the business in areas 

of the extended value chain (from 

such as GHG emissions, water, waste 

raw material extraction to product 

and land use and occupation. The 

Under 
implementation 

disposal)

calculation took into account the full 

Natura product portfolio throughout 

the value chain. In 2016, preparations 

will begin for an unprecedented study 

for the valuation of social impacts

Ethics and 

transparency

For the Natura brand, implant full 

The company undertook the 

transparency in the provision of 

collaborative design of the 

information about products and the 

architecture for communicating 

development status of the company’s 

sustainability, organizing product 

Under 
implementation 

sustainability vision

information in accordance with the 

consumer’s level of interest

Our Network

Dimension

2020 Ambition

2015 Performance 

        Status*  

sustainability

comprising external specialists to 

Board of Directors for the creation of 

Governance of 

Implant a Consulting Council 

Strategic alignment with the Natura 

Natura 

Consultants

Promote interest in ongoing learning 

The company developed and 

and provide a broad educational offer 

tested projects to improve the 

that meets consultants’ needs

education of willing consultants for 

implementation on a large scale

Under 
implementation 

Employees

To reach a 50% rate of  leadership 

During the year, the company 

positions (director level and above) 

reached a 25% rate of leadership 

occupied by women for Natura

positions occupied by women. 

The company reviewed its internal 

processes for selecting, attracting

and developing women leaders

as of 2016

29%

50%

2013

2020

Achieved in 2015
-14%

assess the company’s progress and 

a consulting network to support the 

to further develop strategy

generation of creative and innovative 

At planning phase

solutions and the formulation of 

guidelines for the development of 

company strategy

*Refers to the extent to which the ambition was achieved in 2015 in relation to 2020 and the base. year stipulated.

 The full list of Natura’s 2020 ambitions and commitments may be consulted in the complete version of the Annual Report:
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Cor pora te Affairs
Marcelo Bicalho Behar
Institutional Communications Manager
Newton Branda  
Coordination of the Annual Report
Fábio Peixoto and Thiago Freitas
Editorial project and art direction
Thiago Freitas

Copy a nd sustainability  consultin g 
Report Sustentabilidade
Editing
Álvaro Almeida (MTb 45.384/RS) and Michele Silva (MTb 11.829/RS) 
Reporting
Renata Costa
Project and relationship management
Ana Souza
GRI Consulting
Victor Netto, Cristiane Garcia and Fabíola Nascimento

Tran sla tion to Englis h
Raymond Maddock

Pho tog raphy
Marlos Bakker, Marcos Suguio, Eduardo Delfim, João Avila, Andreas 
Heiniger, Cacaio, Arnaldo Pappalardo, Milton Carelo, Touché and Acervo 
Natura
Executive producer 
Carol Gariani 
Beauty 
Hailton Hesse (Agência First)

Illus tr ation 
A Barca Estúdio

Fina nce a nd Institutional Relatio ns
Financial information
Márcio Bologna, Marcel Goya, Enzo Russo and Leandro Grellet Galvão
Market relations
Fabio Cefaly and Luiz Palhares

Sus taina bility
Marcelo Alonso, Luciana Villa Nova, Renata Puchala, Keyvan Macedo, 
Andreza Souza and Pedro Gattás

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