As an employer with about 65,000 employees group wide, we see it as our duty to offer them a safe and attractive workplace. We additionally see to it that environmental and social standards are observed and promoted by our suppliers too. We make sure our growth is sustainable and also contributes to the local economy.

Promoting innovations and new business models is one of our core competencies. Crucial transformation processes are initiated in particular through digitisation. This also offers us entirely new potential for solving the challenges of today and tomorrow – for example, using innovations to play our part in reducing resource and energy consumption and to create a sustainable value chain. 

As the leading European platform in the field of consumer electronics, it is our duty to create added value for the consumers while also developing solutions to ecological and societal challenges. With around 6.2 million customer contacts per day, we are able and willing to shape the market for sustainable solutions in our business sector. We take our stakeholders’ expectations, wishes and needs seriously and support our customers in making their consumer behaviour responsible and sustainable.

Our business activities as a retail company cause harmful carbon emissions, for example in the areas of logistics and shipping. We have a responsibility to reduce the negative impact we have on the climate as far as possible and also to exert our influence outside of the company.    

Many of the challenges relating to sustainability are complex and affect all sorts of industry players throughout the value chain. We therefore concentrate on close partnerships with our stakeholders so that we can jointly develop practicable and high-impact solutions. We bring the various industry players together in order to jointly work on sustainable solutions for our industry and our stakeholders.