Monoprix and Sustainable Development

Monoprix
and
Sustainable
Development
A strategy that introduces new
requirements for the company
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« Dans Ville il y a vie »
Monoprix is present in 85% of town centres in France
with over 50,000 inhabitants, via :
- 295 stores
- over 17,500 staff members
- 2001 sales figures of 3,590 million
euros, an increase of 6.3%
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Care
3 pillars :
Environment
responsibility
possible
viabl
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Economic
responsibility
SD
equitabl
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Social
responsibility
Efficiency
Equity
“3 P’s”: Profit - People - Planet
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A continuous approach to
progress
Phase 1 : acquire self-knowledge
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Our Charter for sustainable development
5 main spheres of action :
• Be leader in the offer of products for an enhanced quality of life
• Strengthen and increase the quality of life in our stores
• Control the impact of the Group’s activities on the environment
• Initiate local actions that fall within the framework of sustainable
development
• Inform and account for all actions performed by Monoprix in relation
to sustainable development
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A continuous approach to
progress
Phase 1 : acquire self-knowledge
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A system of
continuous
management
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A refocused
strategy
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A continuous approach to
progress
Phase 2 : stay on course
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Economic performance
“Our economic performance is the real driving
force behind our environmental and social
performances.”
• Stores
• Products
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Stores
Integration into the exterior environment, comfort and quality of
welcome
Developments for 2002 - 2003
Draw up specifications for the “Citymarché idéal” (ideal city
supermarket) based on sustainable development criteria and obtain
HQE certification.
• eco-construction
• building integrated into its immediate environment
• integrated choice of building products and processes
• low pollution building sites
• comfort
• visual, olfactory, acoustic and hygrometric comfort
• healthy working areas, air and water
• eco-management
• energy management (electricity, water, fuel)
• waste management
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Products
Offer our customers quality of life products, i.e. including
partly or totally sustainable development values.
Food products
Our approach is concentrated on the means of production,
container and product
• Monoprix Bio
• Monoprix Bien Vivre
• Items produced by agricultural partners
• Fair trade products
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Our commitment in favour of fair trade
Two principal reasons
• A modern kind of solidarity : paying work done at its proper value
which is the only way to enable developing countries to achieve
sustainable development.
• Increasing customer awareness of responsible consumption.
1998 : the first group to offer a coffee as part of the Max Havelaar
guarantee (Malongo brand).
1999 : the first distributor to include a coffee as part of the Max
Havelaar guarantee in the Monoprix Bio brand.
2001 : launch of a Monoprix Bio tea.
2002 : Monoprix
assists the
launch of the
Alter Eco brand,
2002 : Monoprix is
the first distributor
to offer a fresh
product, the
banana.
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Social performance
“The strength of sustainable development
rests in its ability to mobilise positive energy
and provide a new meaning to individual
commitments within the company.”
• Internal
• External
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Internal
• Include sustainable development values as part of our human
resources policy.
− Set up a profit-sharing agreement for the Group’s staff members.
• Encourage our staff members to become active players in our
approach.
• Transform our staff members into specifiers for our approach.
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Training, sustainable development awareness
Roll-out of a general tool to appropriate the Group’s sustainable
development approach
• Prepare staff members to integrate new practices in their work.
Training, awareness actions.
• Assist all staff members to appropriate the approach and become
specifiers for our partners and customers.
Monécho, Monop ’Show, Penguin campaign, etc.
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External
Community and partnership relations
Initiate local and national actions which are part of
a sustainable development approach
• Neighbourly
• Solidarity
• Community
• Environment
Immeubles en fête, Monop’Grand Prix du Centre Ville,
Banques Alimentaires, Restos du Cœur (humanitarian
food aid for the community), etc.
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Social traceability
Roll-out of a tool giving preference to production sites
which respect local and international work regulations
:
• 36 audits in 2001
• 57 audits in 2002
international standard SA 8000
joint reference FCD
countries involved : non-EEC
Aspects covered :
• Child labour
• Discrimination
• Forced labour
• Freedom to associate and negotiate collective bargaining
• Work time
• Payment of hours
• Work conditions
• Hygiene
• Safety
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Environmental performance
“The extent of environmental performance
does not stop at simply reducing our impact at
store level but aims at studying our role as
specifier both upstream and downstream.”
• Waste
• Transport
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Waste
• Reduce the impact generated by consumables, e.g.
toner, cartridges and paper.
• Implementation of a sustainable waste management
policy
Selective sorting:
Applying the regulations, end of the transitory
period 1 July 2002.
Compost-producing process for the Star stores
(bread, fruit and vegetables, flowers).
• Implementation of a disengagement schedule for nonlisted service suppliers.
• Target improved energy efficiency, recuperating
installations at the end of their life cycle, reducing noise
pollution, etc.
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Transport
• Measure the quantity and quality of the impact of transport on the
environment due to supplying the Group’s stores.
• Understand, analyse and act on “transporting=polluting”!
• Project for environmentally-friendly vehicles.
• Carry out partnership actions with transporters based on the idea of
“equitable transport” and “eco-driving”.
• Adapt and participate in the development of the landscape and
urban constraints which force us to carry out low-capacity selective
deliveries.
• Participate in developing and improving supplying for the stores
(combined with Excellence).
• Control the number of kilometres covered and transport costs.
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Transparency
“Getting to know our know-how”
• Reporting
• Information and communication
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Reporting
In order to implement a continuous environmental flow management
tool and report on qualified performance using previously set-up
indicators, Monoprix has defined a global reporting structure.
• Automatise the collection and treatment of data required to develop
and monitor environmental indicators.
Electricity, heating, water, transport, waste.
• Roll out the system to incorporate social and economic indicators.
This tool will enable the relevant performance indicators to be
monitored and analysed and will help in deciding on corrective action.
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Information and communication
Inform and account for all actions performed by
Monoprix in relation to sustainable
development
• Ensure that our approach is transparent by
reporting on our actions (activity report) and by
using exterior audiences (via press relations, etc.).
Express the values of the Group, underline the
importance of Monoprix as a citizen company
and extend the notion of sustainable
development to all
• Use all the means available (media, catalogues,
POS advertising, window displays, etc.).
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By committing itself to this type of
approach, Monoprix wishes to act in
favour of a more equitable and
environmentally-friendly commerce,
both for now and the future.
“Sustainable development is a virtuous circle
which leads our Group to constantly look for a
balance between economic development, social
equity and protection of the environment.”
Philippe Houzé, Chairman and CEO
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