Marks and Spencer publishes 2012 How We Do Business report
08/06/2012View Full Report
Marking the fifth anniversary of its Plan A, Marks & Spencer today publishes its 2012 How We Do Business Report.
The report shows that 138 of the company’s 180 Plan A commitments have now been achieved including the key targets of carbon neutral operations, sending no waste to landfill, improving energy efficiency by 25%, sourcing 100% of wild fish from the most sustainable sources, developing new standards in ethical sourcing and helping customers to live healthier lifestyles.
http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/howwedobusiness
Over five years, M&S has involved over 5 million customers in Plan A, helping to raise £20m for charities and community programmes. Helped 5,000 unemployed people through its Marks & Start work experience programme, avoided 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions, saved 1.7 billion carrier bags, provided 550,000 hours of training to suppliers and developed the UK’s Top 2 healthy eating brands.
Whilst generating a net progressive benefit of £185m (which was available to invested back into the business).
The report also introduces M&S’s future approach to integrated reporting which builds on measurements such as the 31% of M&S products that now have a Plan A quality such as Fairtrade, sustainable raw materials, animal welfare or healthy food standards.
The report is independently assured by Ernst & Young using ISAE 3000 and AA1000AS and meets level B of GRI G3.1.
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