Our CSR commitments

Within the ECF Group, a strong, shared sense of environmental and social responsibility is part of our daily work. This is reflected in three commitments to which we have adhered strictly for 15 years.

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This is concretely translated into 3 commitments that we have been defending for 15 years now.

Our CSR approach

Our Sustainable Development efforts were formalised in 2004 when we signed the United Nations “Global Compact” charter. Our commitment to the environment, people, solidarity and diversity is reflected in everything we do. These principles, which shape the ECF Group culture, are firmly grounded in a bedrock of enduring values that are shared by all our employees and partners.

Our 3 commitments

Minimise our environmental footprint and promote environmental protection

Market environmentally responsible solutions

Build respectful, inclusive and fair working relationships

Minimise our environmental footprint and promote environmental protection

Better control of our impact
on the environment.

To minimize the impact of our activities, we are continually seeking to implement best practices and to favor solutions that have a small environmental footprint or allow us to reduce it, whether in terms of our waste, energy or fuel consumption. In addition, the Group is committed to reducing its climate change footprint within its operational perimeter and across its value chain.

Promoting greater social and environmental responsibility.

Training, involving, enhancing: the company makes its employees aware of the issues shaping today's world and provides them with an experience that is all the more powerful because it is shared, supportive and forward-looking.

Our goal

Minimise the impact of our activities on the environment,
Make our employees aware of environmental and social issues
Measure, monitor and reduce our impact on climate change and determine our trajectory to 2030 and 2050 to contribute to the Paris agreements
Increase our positive social and solidarity externalities

To propose eco-responsible offers for a sustainable partnership with its stakeholders

Supporting clients in their environmental transition is a commitment shared by all the group's subsidiaries. We are also committed to developing solid, constructive and lasting relationships with all our stakeholders.

A more environmentally friendly product offering.

The group is committed to matching the needs of its customers with the search for more ecological alternatives, sustainable products or products with a reduced impact on the environment.

Thus ECF Group sources and selects products with the most rigorous labels, such as FSC, PEFC, Ok Compost and European Ecolabel, or with less impact on the environment and respectful of human health.

Sustainable relationships with our partners.

We are committed to developing solid and lasting relationships with all our stakeholders, whether they be our suppliers, our service providers, our customers or the associations we support. ECF Group has been involving its suppliers in its Sustainable Development policy for 15 years through a supplier charter whose pillars are respect for human rights, working conditions and the environment.

Our goal

To offer more ecological and responsible solutions that are efficient and reliable, guaranteeing both respect for the environment and satisfaction for our customers.
Build balanced relationships with our stakeholders based on shared values to promote a sustainable growth model
Conduct a responsible purchasing policy with our suppliers

Developing inclusive, equitable and respectful social relations

Fair and respectful social relations.

ECF Group is concerned with the professional and personal development of its employees by deploying social practices to ensure well-being at work, the development of skills, health and safety at work.

We are committed to the fight against discrimination and to diversity, and we ensure equal opportunities from the moment of hiring. Respecting, transmitting and supporting are the pillars of the ECF Group's social responsibility.

Our goal

Bringing together quality of life at work, diversity and performance
Develop our employer brand and the Group's human capital through training and awareness
Ensure the health and safety of our employees and customers in our shops

Global Compact

The E.CF Group has been an active supporter of the United Nations Global Compact since 2004. This Global Compact brings together companies that commit to adopting a socially responsible attitude and to integrating 10 fundamental principles into their operations. Our involvement is renewed every year and is materialised through a COP (Communication for Progress) which lists the actions taken and gives substance to our values.

The 10 fundamental principles of the United Nations Global Compact Charter

Human rights

Promote and respect the protection of international human rights law

Ensure that they are not complicit in human rights violations

International labour standards

Respect freedom of association and recognise the right to collective bargaining

Continue to eliminate discrimination in employment

Contribute to the effective abolition of child labour

Contribute to the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour

Environment

Apply the precautionary approach to environmental problems

Take initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility