Happy New Year! We’re starting 2026 strong with exciting updates in this month’s edition—from ecommerce enhancements and Quality audit progress to a quick refresher on our communication guidelines. Plus, enjoy festive photos from Christmas celebrations across our sites and meet our latest Simplify to Win champion who’s helping drive smarter, simpler ways of working.
People Services Update
Performance Reviews start soon—and we’re raising the bar for meaningful conversations, feedback, accountability, and growth. See what’s changing for 2026 and how we can work together to build a stronger, more connected organization. Learn more.
Ecommerce Update
In 2025, the ecommerce team delivered a significant step-change in performance across all three sites by modernizing the online buying experience. Dozens of website improvements led to better quality traffic, more visitors buying from our product pages, and higher average order values, while also making our operations more efficient. Learn more.
Celebrating Our “Simplify to Win” Champion!
A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our Simplify to Win challenge. Your creativity and commitment to making work easier and more effective have truly inspired us. From streamlining processes to improving collaboration, your ideas are helping us work smarter every day. We are thrilled to announce our new "Simplify to Win" champion!Read more.
Driving Operational Excellence: Celebrating Our Six Sigma Learners
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence, we’re proud to recognize three team members who have taken significant steps in their professional development by enrolling in Six Sigma training programs.Read more.
⚠️Safety Note: Summary of 2025 Safety Topics
Throughout the year, we’ve shared important safety topics, tips and reminders focused on increasing awareness, preventing incidents, and reducing risk. This summary highlights key safety messages from the past twelve months and reinforces our ongoing commitment to maintaining a safe working environment.Read more.
Let’s Talk About “Urgent”: Use It Wisely
Since we started using our Internal Communication Guidelines, we noticed we need to pay more attention to how we mark emails as “urgent.” If we use this label too much or for the wrong reasons, it loses its meaning. People might get confused or feel stressed, and messages that truly need fast action might get ignored. We should only mark emails as urgent when they really are—when something is time-sensitive and important for the business.Read more.
Click here to see the employees celebrating work anniversaries or promotions this month.
Birthdays
Click here to see the employees celebrating birthdays this month.
Living Our Core Values
Click here to see the employees who were recognized for their exemplary efforts.
December Highlights
From holiday lunches, retirement celebrations, and Christmas festivities, our teams closed out the year with connection, energy, and joy. It was a great reminder that our strength comes from our people—the way you show up for customers, support one another, and celebrate wins together. Thank you for everything you brought to 2025. Let’s carry this spirit forward and make 2026 our best year yet!
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