EcoVadis is one of the world’s largest and most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings, creating a global network of more than 75,000 rated companies over the past 14 years. For the second year in a row Brand Addition has achieved the Ecovadis Platinum rating placing our company among the top 1% of companies assessed by Ecovadis. In addition, we were also able to demonstrate improvements during the assessment increasing our overall score from 76 in 2020 to 80 in our most recent assessment. What is Ecovadis? Ecovadis provide a system to allow organisations to assess their own and their supply chain’s environmental and social performance. Ecovadis combines technology and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expertise to deliver simple and reliable scorecards. These scorecards cover 21 CSR indicators across four main themes, Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement. What do you have to do to get an Ecovadis rating? To get a rating an organisation needs to provide evidence against each of the indicators. This does not just mean providing a document that says we do something – we need to show that we actually do it. It is a very thorough process and takes a lot of hard work and collaboration across all of the functions within our business. What are the benefits of having the Ecovadis rating? It allows us to demonstrate to all our stakeholders the investment that Brand Addition puts into CSR, and also that part of our success comes from being an ethical organisation that takes care of our people, our customers, the environment and the communities we live in. How has Ecovadis helped Brand Addition improve its performance? Ecovadis allows us to measure our CSR performance and the areas in which we may be able to improve. It is good to have people looking in from the outside who deal with many CSR leading organisations analysing what and how we do things. This allows us to benchmark ourselves against other leading organisations, many of which are our customers. November 2021 Building a sustainable platform. As part of our commitment to further improving our sustainability performance, we are introducing new measures to make our supply chain even more transparent and aligned with our corporate sustainability targets among many other actions to reduce our impact. LEARN MORE If you want to learn more about EcoVadis, please check out the link below: In January 2021, BA launched our BA One Strategy for the next 4 years: “Sustainability & Growth”, putting sustainability at the heart of every decision we make towards 2025, and committing to ambitious science-based targets aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Goals. Reduce our Scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint by 50% by 2030. Renewable energy on all our sites by 2023. Zero waste to landfill by 2030. We will continue to work to reduce the amount of single use plastic used within our supply chain. In our directly operated logistics centres, our target is to ensure that all of the packaging materials used are recyclable or biodegradable by the end of 2023. Present achievements. Sustainable packaging. Across all of our Brand Addition logistics centres and warehouses, we have made some significant changes to the way in which we package our products for onward distribution. All of the outer packaging cartons that we now use are 100% recyclable and FSC certified, 70% of our cartons are also recycled and we only use recyclable paper bags, as well as paper void fill, packaging stickers and tape. Over the last 4 years we have reduced the amount of plastic packaging at our Manchester site by 80% and we are committed to further reducing it in the coming years by replacing it with less impacting alternatives. Sustainable products. We incorporate eco-design to our products by looking at their end of life from the design process, through which we are implementing a circular economy approach. Volunteering & social initiatives. We are committed to give back to society by participating and engaging our staff in social and community related initiatives, as we have done in the last years with initiatives such as the Jerry Bottle Project through which we have financed a water project in India. We have also launched a supported volunteering scheme for our employees to promote and support our staff participation in volunteering initiatives. Unfortunately, we have not participated in any corporate volunteering activity over the past year due to Covid related reasons, but we hope to resume them soon as circumstances permit. Supply chain. We prioritise suppliers that have sustainability at the core of their business and can provide us with raw materials origin certificates and social & environmental audits throughout their supply chain Sustainability champions. At Brand Addition we want to ensure that our efforts to drive our sustainability strategy are globally aligned across all our sites, which is why we have set up a team of sustainability champions at each site to drive and monitor our sustainability initiatives. 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