One of the cornerstones of its sustainable development policy, the Galeries Lafayette group places people at the centre of the company’s actions, at the disposal of its employees, but society at large.
The success of its sustainable development policy requires support from all its stakeholders, starting with the employees.
The Group supports its people and promotes well-being, engagement and diversity while also supporting community initiatives and encouraging employees to take part in such projects.
As an active member of society, the Galeries Lafayette group is involved in the issues that are close to its heart by developing long-term, concrete partnerships with non-profit organizations in France and overseas.
These partnerships grow stronger every year, providing the organizations with both financial and logistical support, by making donations in kind or through volunteering.
The Group and its management team are committed to relaying the beliefs held by these organizations, whether they seek to promote solidarity, notoriety of tourism and the economy in France or the sharing of knowledge.
The Group is reinventing its city-centre retail activity in order to support the transformation of cities towards sustainable transport and buildings and to work in favour of a more circular economy.
As a specialist in city centre retail, the company has particularly testing challenges for its historical property portfolio. The Group’s policy on waste is twofold: reducing its generation and improving its sorting. Energy consumption policy has also been setup.
Continuous improvement in the reduction of own-brand packaging, the use of recyclable materials and the search for alternatives to plastic. Reducing the environmental impact of e-commerce packaging is also a priority area of action, with the elimination of superfluous packaging elements and the dispatch of an increasing number of orders using paper envelopes instead of bulkier cartons.
Logistics flows have already been the subject of improvement for several years in the perspective of reducing and enhancing their environment impact. All deliveries within Île-de-France are now made by a fleet of vehicles running on CNG. Specific attention was paid this year to air freight, with the permanent aim to reduce their emissions.
Go for Good is a creative and collective label committed to making fashion more responsible, launched by the Group in 2018.
In 2018, the Galeries Lafayette group launched Go for Good, its selection of more responsible products. This initiative promotes the positive actions of a community of 1,000 brands and partners who are accelerating the transformation of the fashion sector.
Encouraging committed creation, Go for Good responds to the growing quest for meaning and transparency demanded by customers, and invites all stakeholders to join in a virtuous logic of progress. The selection highlights and encourages initiatives by established brands and young designers to promote more responsible fashion.
Through Go for Good, the Galeries Lafayette group and its brands select products from the worlds of fashion and accessories, beauty, home, jewelry and gastronomy. Reconciling style and responsibility, this selection is based on rigorous specifications identifying products that have less impact on the environment, support local production or contribute to social development.
In all stores, those criteria are highlighted by Go for Good brand sales areas, in an informative and sharing approach for clients.
Go for Good movement is also reflected through awareness events about preowned products and clothes fixing and recycling. Through conferences and workshops, all clients are invited to discover new forms of consumption.
In recent years, the Group has been fully committed to controlling social and environmental risks among its suppliers of own-brand products. This policy starts with suppliers signing a mandatory code of conduct and the Group conducting a risk analysis of production sites and running social audits. Additional checks are gradually being implemented on sites with potentially significant environmental impact.
The Galeries Lafayette clothing line’s collections cover an array of responsible fabric, fully traceable from cotton field to store. In 2020, the brand launched a first pilot collection exclusively made to order.
In 2019, the Galeries Lafayette group stepped up its commitment to more responsible fashion by setting itself new concrete and measurable objectives for 2024.
These objectives aim to bolster the position of its Go for Good label and to promote positive initiatives driving the transformation in the industry.
Review of the strategic objectives for more responsible fashion in 2020
