From our CEO

As we enter 2023, I am pleased to report on ESG achievements for MAISON DENIS over the past year.

There is no doubt that 2022 was a year of great challenges. As we emerged from the threat of COVID-19, we faced major supply chain constraints together with growing inflationary pressures. Our improvements on SOPs, as part of our ambition to deliver essential goods to local communities, helped to mitigate cost impacts on consumers.

This was done without compromising our sustainability strategy that remains at the heart of our activities, whilst our ongoing work continues to drive positive change across our ecosystem.

This ESG report demonstrates that over the period, we have remained on track with all our targets, as defned and regularly updated by the ESG committee.

On the anecdotal but signifcant side, I would like to point out the implementation in our company of digital business cards; this in order to help tackle the issue of enormous waste generated by the 11 billion cards printed worldwide per year, 90% of which end up in the bin.

I would like also to emphasise our efforts to make training more accessible; we have invested in e-learning capabilities to allow our staff to train at their convenience. In 2022, this allowed us to involve all our offices in an anti-corruption program and cyber-security training.

We are progressing fast in ESG technical knowledge to be able to make science-data based investments in order to reduce our GHG emissions and to better integrate into a future circular economy.

We continued exploring & developing new products and new investments that will be essential in the future, from healthier to alternative proteins, while working to develop sustainable packaging solutions.

Our sustainability efforts remain at the forefront of the business and represent an important part of MAISON DENIS, consistent with its vision for the future. We recognize that we cannot make all these changes alone as sustainability is a collective effort.

I am grateful for the ongoing efforts of those within DENIS, our partners, and our consumers. I would like to take the opportunity of this message to express my appreciation to all stakeholders who work towards a more sustainable model together with us.

Fabien Reyjal Chief Executive Officer