Management of environment

The environmental performances of the PPR Group cannot develop in the long term without the creation of a reliable organisation that can communicate the Group’s commitments to the entities and collect information from such entities in order to monitor how commitments are taken into account and ensure their management. 

A management tool at the Group level

In order to be able to set up efficient action plans regarding environment issues, PPR has defined in 2004, with a working group comprised of member companies of the environment network, the Group’s environmental reporting indicators

The reporting indicators must be representative of each branche’s environmental challenges. Eight themes were identified in 2004 by the environmental network’s inter-company working group, including five themes comprising quantitative indicators (consumption of raw materials, transport, waste production, energy consumption, and water consumption) and two transversal themes comprising qualitative indicators (products policy, environmental and risk management). An 8th theme encompasses general data (surface area, revenue, etc.).

Even though certain indicators may appear as minor progress levers with regard to potential savings or the impact of other industrial activities, the first goal of the adopted approach is to gain an understanding of the PPR Group’s environmental impact and does not in theory exclude any issue.

These indicators, quantitative and qualitative, were taken from reporting campaigns used to measure changes. In order to ensure constant progress, the indicators change each year to better reflect the actual available information and the Group’s major environmental issues.


Structures dedicated to environmental issues

Each PPR group division develops its own organisation for managing the environment and implements specific action plans to limit its environmental impacts.
Accordingly, even the companies whose activity does not represent a major identified risk for the environment have an organisation dedicated to environmental questions.

The manager is responsible for deploying the Group’s CSR approach and implementing the social and environmental measures specific to the division’s activities
These correspondents meet regularly in order to share and exchange the best practices developed within the Group companies. In addition to exchanging experiences, these meetings are held to define action plans which respond to the transversal issues of both the Group and the companies.


Direct involvement of employees

The direct involvement of employees in the implementation of the CSR strategy is a primary concern for the PPR Group. There have therefore been numerous initiatives, whether at the Group or brand and company level, in order to inform a maximum number of employees about environmental protection and promote the adoption of new behaviours and best practices to reduce the Group’s environmental impact.