International Women's Day Issue
34
FLORENCE BULTE
Chief Sustainability Officer Chalhoub Group
What is Chalhoub Group's vision towards sustainability, and what steps are being taken to achieve the Group's sustainability goals? How do you engage employees in sustainability efforts? At Chalhoub Group, as a family business, sustainability is not only part of what we do, it has always been a way of life and at the heart of how we run our business. Our sustainability strategy has been developed through rigorous stakeholder engagement, making sure it is relevant to our business and integrated in our Group core strategy. As a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact and reporting publicly since 2014, our strategy is aligned with the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as regional sustainability agendas. Ensuring we reach our sustainability goals allows us to improve our sustainability performance across our value chain, while positively impacting the lives of our employees, customers, and communities. Our sustainability objectives are based on the Group material issues and aligned with SDGs. They consequently are distributed across our sustainability pillars, Leadership, People, Planet, Partners, Impact and scaled down for implementation with the support of relevant business units across the Group. This allows us to drive a local impact on the SDGs in all the countries we operate.
