2020 Materiality Assessment

Altria’s responsibility focus areas and initiatives are guided by our materiality assessment process – a comprehensive, formal approach to identify the most impactful environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that promote long-term sustainability and success. Through this assessment, we conduct a comprehensive review of stakeholder expectations and determine how those align with our business priorities.

In 2020, we completed a new materiality assessment and from this analysis, we established six responsibility focus areas to guide Altria’s actions toward achieving our Vision. Some of these "new" priorities will feel familiar, but all represent important evolutions in our corporate responsibility strategy. View the details of our 2020 Materiality Assessment.

While our materiality assessment is complete, we understand that change is constant. We will continue to monitor emerging issues and align our business practices to help address evolving societal issues important to our companies, stakeholders and communities.

Evolving Metrics & Communicating Progress

Stakeholders expect us to clearly communicate where we’re focused and how we're doing. Our new responsibility focus areas present the opportunity to inspect the metrics we've tracked in the past and expand our disclosure to align with evolving expectations. We are also modernizing our reporting approach, to better meet the unique information needs of various stakeholders and allow for more continuous dialogue.

In 2021, we shifted to a new reporting cycle, disclosing progress and key metrics for each of our responsibility focus areas in stand-alone reports. We will publish these reports throughout the year and commit to updating our progress "off cycle" as necessary. As we’ve done in the past, each of these focus area reports will share our approach and progress toward our goals, including relevant targets and metrics.

Visit the Corporate Responsibility Reports page to access current and historical reports.