Here we describe our commitments towards Governance, focusing on our 2025 ESG Roadmap commitments. For Royal Smit & Zoon, it’s important that everything we do is built on a strong foundation. The most important commitments are described below.
Achievements
Governance
All incentive programs include ESG targets
Specific job holders, as well as key management positions, already have ESG targets in their incentive programs. Based on the updated 2025 ESG Roadmap, more individuals will be engaged with ESG targets in 2022 which should ultimately lead to all of our team members being engaged in incentive programs.
Royal Smit & Zoon started to collaborate with EcoVadis in 2015 and since then, we were accredited with the SILVER rating. We are very pleased that EcoVadis accredited us with GOLD in 2021, meaning that we belong to the top 7% of companies
audited by EcoVadis. The EcoVadis model focuses on the Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. The benchmarking opportunities will guide us for ongoing improvements in the future.
EcoVadis Gold rating rewards our ESG leadership
Our Business Partner Code of Conduct is already in place since 2018 and is part of our Sales Partner Agreements. In 2021, we started piloting the Sales Partner Program with a selection of our agents. The purpose of this program is to ensure that our Sales Partners will understand and be ready
to face the requirements in ESG that Royal Smit & Zoon and the leather value chain are setting. Due to COVID-19 and the fact that traveling was difficult, the pilot program got delayed.
Sales agents & distributors are involved in our Sales Partner Program
Our Business Partner Code of Conduct is already in place since 2018. Since then, it was introduced with our key suppliers6 and targets have been set to ensure that all our key suppliers will commit to it in 2025.
Our key suppliers commit to our Business Partner Code of Conduct
6. Key suppliers = This only concerns suppliers related to Dutch entity. This data set will be enriched in the next year. Key suppliers have an annual spent of over Euro 100K.
7. 99% = Related to the Dutch entity.
In 2021, the Employee Code of Conduct was finalized and approved by the Board and the Dutch Works Council and introduced in the Dutch entity. The ECoC was set up to support communicating a common understanding for our global organization. In 2022, it will be introduced globally. We intend to define a training program to embed it with our global team members.
Our Employee Code of Conduct (ECoC) guides our day-to-day business
UN SDG goals
We adressed UNG SDG goals 6,8,12,13,17, and a series of Materiality Matrix topics, including Occupational Health & Safety, Effluents & Waste, Water & Effluents, Training & Education, Materials, Environmental Compliance, Customer Health & Safety, Emissions, Economic Performance, Anti-Corruption, Energy.
UN SDG goals
We adressed UNG SDG goals 6,8,12,13,17, and a series of Materiality Matrix topics, including Occupational Health & Safety, Effluents & Waste, Water & Effluents, Training & Education, Materials, Environmental Compliance, Customer Health & Safety, Emissions, Economic Performance, Anti-Corruption, Energy.
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In 2021, the Employee Code of Conduct was finalized and approved by the Board and the Dutch Works Council and introduced in the Dutch entity. The ECoC was set up to support communicating a common understanding for our global organization. In 2022, it will be introduced globally. We intend to define a training program to embed it with our global team members.
Our Employee Code of Conduct (ECoC) guides our day-to-day business
6. Key suppliers = This only concerns suppliers related to Dutch entity. This data set will be enriched in the next year. Key suppliers have an annual spent of over Euro 100K.
7. 99% = Related to the Dutch entity.
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Our Business Partner Code of Conduct is already in place since 2018. Since then, it was introduced with our key suppliers6 and targets have been set to ensure that all our key suppliers will commit to it in 2025.
Our key suppliers commit to our Business Partner Code of Conduct
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Our Business Partner Code of Conduct is already in place since 2018 and is part of our Sales Partner Agreements. In 2021, we started piloting the Sales Partner Program with a selection of our agents. The purpose of this program is to ensure that our Sales Partners will understand and be ready
to face the requirements in ESG that Royal Smit & Zoon and the leather value chain are setting. Due to COVID-19 and the fact that traveling was difficult, the pilot program got delayed.
Sales agents & distributors are involved in our Sales Partner Program
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Royal Smit & Zoon started to collaborate with EcoVadis in 2015 and since then, we were accredited with the SILVER rating. We are very pleased that EcoVadis accredited us with GOLD in 2021, meaning that we belong to the top 7% of companies
audited by EcoVadis. The EcoVadis model focuses on the Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. The benchmarking opportunities will guide us for ongoing improvements in the future.
EcoVadis Gold rating rewards our ESG leadership
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All incentive programs include ESG targets
Specific job holders, as well as key management positions, already have ESG targets in their incentive programs. Based on the updated 2025 ESG Roadmap, more individuals will be engaged with ESG targets in 2022 which should ultimately lead to all of our team members being engaged in incentive programs.
Here we describe our commitments towards Governance, focusing on our 2025 ESG Roadmap commitments. For Royal Smit & Zoon, it’s important that everything we do is built on a strong foundation. The most important commitments are described below.
Achievements
Governance
