BE INFORMED | FACT SHEET n°1

Why initiate a CSR process?

Faced with today’s economic, social and environmental challenges, companies must reinvent themselves and create innovative, agile and collaborative models. The implementation of a CSR approach, through profitable solutions, enables companies to respond to their essential challenges and thus improve their sustainable performance and the creation of shared values.

ECONOMIC CHALLENGES

Making more efficient use of resources (energy and materials), eliminate waste and reduce waste treatment costs.
Developing innovation and promoting new business models: leasing, sharing, eco-design, circular economy, functional economy, productive resilience.
Reducing taxes and improving bank rates

COMPETITIVE CHALLENGES

Enhancing the company’s image, generating brand preference and greater customer appeal.
Controlling the value chain (suppliers, partners) and developing greater reactivity / flexibility regarding disruptive changes (e.g. COVID).
Better responding to new purchasing trends by establishing a regular dialogue with key partners.
Improving customer relationship and loyalty.

HUMAN CHALLENGES

Improving employee motivation.
Giving meaning to their job and building loyalty.
Creating a positive dynamic within the company and encouraging dialogue with employees.
Attracting new talent
Reducing the risks of absenteeism (health, safety) and improving the company’s productivity.

GOVERNANCE STRATEGY

Anticipating compliance obligations
Understanding your company’s environmental impact in order to better reduce it (product life cycle analysis, carbon footprint) and thus aligning with the national low-carbon strategy (carbon neutrality by 2050).
Taking better account of and managing risks (legal, economic, environmental, social, etc.).
Integrating and bringing to life its ISO management system (ISO 14001, 9001).
Offering a long-term vision of the company’s development and strengthening its sustainability.