2Sustain

The adidas Group has released its tenth annual sustainability report, providing an overview of the company’s strategies to reduce environmental footprints of its own operations while continuing to help suppliers reduce their environmental impacts, as well.

In particular, adidas Group reports that it is focusing its 2010 efforts on actions directed at these specific 2015 targets (each measured against a baseline of 2008 unless specified) :

Environment (Own operations )

• 20  percent relative reduction in energy consumption

• 30 percent relative reduction in carbon emissions

• 20 percent  water savings/employee

• 25 percent waste reduction/employee

Social Compliance (Labor/Health & Safety)

• 80 percent  of direct supplier factories to meet ’3C’ (good) or better under our social compliance KPI rating (currently 50 percent of the direct suppliers meet this rating).

• 25 percent of direct suppliers are in a self-governance compliance model (where they take responsibility for their own performance) that includes reporting of key social and health and safety indicators.

• Common industry-wide monitoring platform used to check workplace conditions.

• Top 10 publicly listed suppliers are independently producing sustainability reports.

Employees

• To ensure succession readiness on all key leadership positions – 80 percent of senior management positions to be filled by internal employees.

• To be a World Class Recruiter (in terms of quality, cost, speed, ranking) – with a strong internal focus.

• To be a Top 10 employer in every key market and for its employees (based on market surveys and employee engagement scores).

The report also includes an extensive discussion of the company’s commitment to work with its suppliers (both direct and indirect) to ensure that workplaces are fair, safe and healthy. Plus, there’s a detailed analysis of the adidas Group’s supply chain performance data from 2009.

This year, the adidas Group report is built around the theme “Team Talk,” and accordingly, the review also includes stakeholders’ voices such as Greenpeace and LOCOG – the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games – as well as stories from employees about factory audits and how site managers are rolling out the new environmental strategy.