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Example of a large furniture store

Publikationsdatum: 3. April 2025
Letzte Änderung: 3. April, 2025

This furniture store with around 3,000 employees in Switzerland had already successfully implemented various measures in the areas of healthy & sustainable living, circular economy & climate protection and gender equality. With the ambition to play a pioneering role, the company decided to systematise its commitment to sustainability and set itself measurable goals. The subsequent analysis revealed that the greatest potential lay in resource-saving product development and selection for a sustainable everyday life as well as in circular process and product design.

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Goal 1

By 2030, we will inspire and empower more than one billion people to live a better everyday life within the limits of our planet.

Measures

  • Offer resource-conserving and waste-saving solutions.
  • Remove products from the range that do not meet the requirements for healthy and sustainable living before legislation requires this.
  • Promote a balanced diet, restful sleep and healthy exercise.
  • Inspire, inform and support employees, customers, partners and society.

Goal 2

We will become a circular company by 2030. We are committed to developing all our products with circular capabilities. Our aim is to use only renewable or recycled materials and to offer our customers new solutions to extend the service life of products and materials.

Measures

  • Close the loop further by designing all products according to circular design principles.
  • Close the cycle further by manufacturing all products exclusively from renewable or recycled materials by 2030.
  • Close the loop further by exploring new ways to avoid waste and utilise resources continuously.

Goal 3

By 2030, we are committed to becoming climate positive without relying on carbon offsetting. In this way, we are helping to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C by the end of the century.

Measures

  • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Replace fossil fuels, continuously increase energy efficiency and enable customers to do the same. In addition, use more sustainable raw materials and food.
  • Promote CO2 capture and storage: Support the development and implementation of standards and the introduction of better management methods in forestry and agriculture. Extend the service life of products made from renewable materials.
  • Go beyond our own value chain: Enable customers to generate and consume renewable energy at home. Cooperate with suppliers and support them in reducing the overall footprint of their production.

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