The 2018 Cox Corporate Social Responsibility Report CEI_2018_CSR_Report | Page 7

You launched Cox Conserves SM more than a decade ago. How do you assess your progress against your environmental goals, and what are the big opportunities ahead? JIM When we launched Cox Conserves we believed our employees would play a big role in making sure this initiative gained traction. But frankly, I don’t think any of us anticipated the degree of engagement we now see among employees across all of our businesses. It’s a level of participation — both at work and in their personal lives — that may be unmatched for a company our size. It’s a great reflection of our unique culture, and I’m very gratified by it. ALEX I’m pleased with what we’ve achieved in our journey toward zero waste and being carbon and water neutral. Across hundreds of our facilities we’ve implemented more efficient systems and processes to improve our environmental performance. Yet there are even bigger opportunities ahead. One is to do more with partners throughout our supply chain to reduce environmental impacts. Another is to be leaders in Cleantech, businesses built on cleaner, more environmentally responsible technologies, including energy services and sustainable agriculture. We see promising opportunities to advance our environmental goals and build good, profitable businesses in these emerging fields. As Cox has grown, it seems your philanthropic commitments have grown as well. JIM They have, and last year I was very proud when our board chose to invest, over five years, $250 million in savings from the federal tax cut in the James M. Cox Foundation. The Foundation is focused on important priorities like early childhood education and healthcare, environmental conservation and empowering individuals and families. Our sustained involvement in these areas is producing some exciting results. Thinking about the full range of your Corporate Social Responsibility goals, what are the big opportunities to raise the bar? ALEX The most exciting frontier I see is to bridge the gap from philanthropy to business. We donate a great deal of time and money to great causes; we seek efficiency in our operations, but the prospect of growing a business in this space is really exciting to me. Jim Kennedy speaks about the importance of the Cox Conserves program. Cox Enterprises, Inc. 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Report 5