We use this platform to report annually in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standard (GRI). For VAUDE, the GRI standard forms the basis for this report. In addition, we supplement our information with specifications from other reporting standards such as EMAS, the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the Economy for the Common Good and Fair Wear, as well as other regulations such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations or "private" agreements such as the Greenpeace Detox Commitment. For more information, please refer to the "CSR Standards" section of this report.
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Hilke Patzwall
Contact person for questions regarding the report |
This report covers our activities in 2020, in particular the Summer and Winter Collections that were available in stores during the year, as well as the following seasons that were already in product development or production and are being presented to retailers or already ordered at the time of reporting.
No other companies are included in the VAUDE Sport GmbH & Co. KG financial statement. The subsidiaries, the VAUDE Franchise GmbH, a sales office in Spain are listed as equity investments, but are not contained within the report. We also have a Vietnamese quality control office which is not included in the report.
Producers and material suppliers, projects and challenges are also included.
The report is aimed at both enthusiastic outdoor sports fans (consumers) and our direct customers – retail trade. And, of course, everyone else who is interested in VAUDE, our stakeholders.
"We" refers to VAUDE Sport GmbH & CO. KG.
The environmental indicators include the company headquarters with its own production, the factory outlet and the VAUDE Café in Obereisenbach. The sales office in the Netherlands is not included in the environmental indicators. The factory outlets in Metzingen and Wadgassen and various rented order spaces are also excluded from the environmental data.
One of our major suppliers is the legally independent company VAUDE Vietnam. VAUDE Vietnam is not included in the report. The production site is taken into account in the data on the supply chain.
We want to present the success of our sustainability, objectively and quantifiably. Verification of the data we present by independent third parties is therefore very important to us.
The environmental data based on our company headquarters in Obereisenbach is verified by an independent environmental auditor in accordance with EMAS and ISO 14001. More here myclimate calculates the emissions that we produce. This information can be found in the GRI Index.
The data on social conditions in our production sites was collected by Fair Wear (FW) in audits. Read more in the FW Index.
Additional external audits are carried out by the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the Grüner Knopf and the Economy for the Common Good.
Our financial statements are audited by the statutory requirements of the independent auditing company GmbH Schnetz, Michele Buchmann, Ravensburg.
The management board supports the external audit by providing the necessary budgets and participating in the on-site audits. Aside from the audit contract, there are no other relationships between the organization and the auditors.
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft provided limited assurance on selected sustainability information for the first two report years, 2013 and 2014. For the 2017 and 2018 reports, we used the same internal guidelines and criteria. This year we did not carry out an external verification.
Transparency and comparability are important factors for sustainability. By applying the guidelines, our report is more comprehensive and transparent. Because the GRI guidelines are applied internationally, we can now be compared with companies all over the world.
The Sustainability Report for the previous year is still available for comparison on the VAUDE website.
| GRI: | 102-50 |
| GRI: | 102-51 |
| GRI: | 102-52 |
| GRI: | 102-53 |
| GRI: | 102-54 |
