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Our commitment to SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

In 2018 we began working on our SDG 12 Strategy based on the principles of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)12, Responsible Consumption and Production. Through the strategy’s formulation, we were able to identify ‘hot spots’ across our value chain where interventions have the greatest potential to create positive social and environmental impact.

Fully developed in 2019, the strategy’s objective is to optimise and enhance our current systems and to manage our energy, waste, logistics and procurement processes more efficiently with minimal social and environmental impact. We have focused on five areas across our value chain this year to adopt our SDG 12 strategy at the industry level:

• Energy efficiency: reducing our carbon footprint and using our resources efficiently through energy saving measures across the Group.
• Waste management: diverting our waste away from landfill and contributing to the circular economy through activities and actions that aim at managing our waste from inception to its disposal.
• Logistics: reducing our carbon footprint and using our resources efficiently by optimising the movement and our products from point A to point B and by adopting eco-friendly and efficient measures to do so.
• Procurement: being an accountable business by ensuring social and environmental impacts are part of our decision-making process, while maintaining high quality products and services through adequate communication with our suppliers and partners.
• Education: raising awareness across the Group and developing our people’s skillset through stakeholder awareness and training workshops.

To achieve and successfully implement our strategy, we have established a roadmap which includes considerations and milestones related to our supply chain. Examples include adopting more responsible procurement processes, digitalising our store operations, revamping our in-store environmental performance assessment tool (STEP), and heavily reducing our consumption of single-use plastics. We have also reviewed our Sustainable Supply Chain policy to align it with our updated supply chain strategy and have shared it with all employees in the Group. By doing so, we aim to embed sustainability within our Group by creating a culture of responsible consumption and production, where our people will approach their daily work with a social and environmental context in mind.