In Spain, the company Wrigley markets Orbit and Boomer chewing gum and Sugus and Solano candies.
As of April 1, 2008, Alares®, an expert provider of family assistance, began providing its family assistance services to Wrigley Spain employees and their immediate family members (parents, spouses, and children) through its Work-Life, Family, and Personal-Life Balance Program for companies.
Alares® services—which are provided anywhere in Spain—are designed to meet a wide range of needs that arise in everyday life as a result of illness, accidents, or postoperative recovery, and that affect people’s quality of life.
Wrigley’s success lies in the people who are involved in the business every day, committed to quality and working as a team in every area and at every level.
Today, these values have become the heart of the company’s business and have evolved into what Wrigley calls “the soul of the company.” As a company committed to its employees, Wrigley continues to work every day to improve their working conditions in areas such as personal development and training and work-life balance. A clear example of this is the implementation of the Alares® Program for all its Associates in Spain.
Alares®’s Work-Life, Family, and Personal-Life Balance Program received the “Imserso Infanta Cristina Awards, 2004” for Innovation and Best Work-Life, Family, and Personal-Life Balance Program from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
This Program—which has operated in the Spanish market since 1999—follows procedures audited by AENOR and backed by UNE-EN ISO 9001/2000 quality certification. Alares® is the only company in Spain that guarantees the direct provision, without subcontracting or franchises, of its assistance and social-healthcare services anywhere in Spain, thereby ensuring personalized assistance for employees and their family members wherever they may be.
The implementation of the Work-Life Balance Program by Alares® benefits the company because it directly increases employee motivation and indirectly enhances the company’s competitiveness. The Program includes the following services free of charge:
• Personal Home Assistance: Support workers for companionship, getting up, going to bed, eating meals, and caring for sick children.
• Specialized Home Treatments: Physiotherapists, psychologists, nurses, and private teachers for children in the event of illness.
• Unlimited and Anonymous Telephone Consultations with our Specialists in the following areas: Medical, Legal, Psychological, Social, and Dietary-Nutritional.
• Selection of Social-Healthcare Professionals, Domestic Service Staff, or Childcare Providers.
• International Second Medical Opinion in cases of serious illness or injury, both regarding diagnosis and treatment.
• Preventive and Assistance Telecare, Landline or Mobile, 24 hours a day.
• In addition, under advantageous conditions, users may access: an approved medical network at regulated prices, home repair management, and babysitting services.
By providing services to Wrigley, Alares® continues its strategy of pursuing one of its key objectives: helping individuals, companies, and institutions participate in the collective process of building a social reality with a better quality of life for citizens.
