Way Beyond Good journey

SIG’s Cor­po­rate Respon­si­bil­i­ty (CR) Per­for­mance Update for 2017, reports progress on its bold ^“Way Beyond Good” ambi­tions to con­tribute more to soci­ety and the envi­ron­ment than it takes out.
CEO Rolf Stan­gl said:

“Our bold Way Beyond Good ambi­tions are dri­ving progress across all three of our respon­si­bil­i­ty pil­lars: com­pa­ny, sourc­ing and prod­ucts. We have a long way to go, but I am enor­mous­ly proud of the strides we have made in 2017. The lat­est rat­ing from Eco­Vadis recog­nis­es our progress, plac­ing SIG in the top 1% of the 30,000 or more busi­ness­es assessed on wide-rang­ing cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­i­ty topics.”

Partnering for progress

The CR Per­for­mance Update rein­forces SIG’s com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­ples of the Unit­ed Nations Glob­al Com­pact and empha­sis­es its sup­port for the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs).
SIG stood along­side the For­est Stew­ard­ship Coun­cil (FSC) and oth­er lead­ing busi­ness­es in 2017 to pledge sup­port for the Van­cou­ver Dec­la­ra­tion to ensure their use of for­est mate­ri­als con­tributes to the SDGs.
Through ini­tia­tives such as the Net Pos­i­tive Project, SIG con­tin­ues to work with part­ners to help dri­ve progress in its own busi­ness and beyond. The com­pa­ny is also invit­ing input from exter­nal stake­hold­ers through its new Respon­si­bil­i­ty Advi­so­ry Group.

Commitment to transparent reporting

Trans­paren­cy is inte­gral to the firm’s ethos as a respon­si­ble com­pa­ny. The com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to report reg­u­lar­ly on per­for­mance relat­ed to its most mate­r­i­al cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­i­ty issues, as iden­ti­fied through a detailed mate­ri­al­i­ty assessment.
The CR Per­for­mance Update for 2017 pro­vides an inter­im report on progress against the 2020 tar­gets set out in the firm’s respon­si­bil­i­ty roadmap, includ­ing data on key per­for­mance indi­ca­tors and key achieve­ments from the year. It sup­ple­ments the com­pa­nies bien­ni­al full Cor­po­rate Respon­si­bil­i­ty Report, pro­duced in accor­dance with guide­lines from the Glob­al Report­ing Ini­tia­tive, which offers more detail on how SIG man­ages social and envi­ron­men­tal issues.
Head of Cor­po­rate Respon­si­bil­i­ty Michael Heck­er said: “The CR Per­for­mance Update tells our sto­ry of the year. It show­cas­es what we have achieved, but it also shows where we have more work to do. I am look­ing for­ward to report­ing fur­ther progress in our full CR Report next year.”
The firm’s ‘Way Beyond Good Cor­po­rate Respon­si­bil­i­ty Per­for­mance Update 2017’ can be accessed at: http://www.sig.biz/responsibility/way-beyond-good/reporting-on-our-progress