Autogrill Group
Sustainability Report
2015 Autogrill Group 2015 Sustainability Report
Translation from the Italian original which remains the definitive version. Letter from the CEO Dear Stakeholders, (G4-1)
Autogrill posted excellent financial results for 2015. While North America produced impressive figures that were key to the Group’s overall performance, we should also remember the return to profitability in Europe and double-digit growth in the International area, where we won several new contracts and opened over a hundred new points of sale. Solid growth in sales and margins enabled the Group to double its profits and cash flow generation.
Over the year the Group continued to strengthen its medium-term competitive position both by increasing its contracts portfolio and by making significant investments, of which over 50% in North America. Almost 80% of total investments went into development.
We continue to take opportunities that will benefit us in the short and medium term by leveraging our know-how: our ability to partner with the world’s biggest food & beverage brands at the same time as developing strong and innovative in-house brands, that are increasingly valued and competitive in Italy and abroad.
Take Bistrot, for instance, which caters for travellers in channels and countries with different culinary traditions, from Dutch railway stations to North American and European airports and onto Italian motorways. And other award winning formats that we’ve created, such as Gorgeous Kitchen at Heathrow and Whiskey River at Charlotte Airport, to mention just a couple.
Geographical and channel diversification, the capacity to constantly innovate our offering and the passion and commitment of all our people are, in my opinion, the most effective means to successfully negotiate an environment that is still characterized by uncertainty and continue to grow in the future.
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos Table of Contents Sustainability Report: drafting criteria 6
Materiality analysis: methodology and results 8
The world of Autogrill 13 A-company 14 The value added 16 Strategy and sustainability 21 Business and governance 26 Commitments, progress and objectives reached 40
The three strategic areas: A-People 46 A - Pro d u c t 74 A-Planet 104
Autogrill in figures 121
GRI G4 Content Index 135
External Auditors’ Report 142 6
(G4-6; G4-13; G4-16; G4-18; G4-22; G4-23; G4-28;G4-29; The Sustainability Report: G4-30; G4-32; G4-33)
Drafting criteria drafting criteria
The Autogrill Sustainability Report is a technical document describing the activities and projects that the Group has carried out during the year and outlining the path followed in terms of sustainability. It also represents a time of reflection and an important communication tool towards the stakeholders with regard to the actions undertaken, progress made and the areas of improvement identified in the context of economic, social and environmental performance. The eleventh edition of the Autogrill Sustainability Report covers 2015 (1 January – 31
2016 December) and was drafted in accordance with the Core option of the “G4 Sustainability GOLD Community Autogrill S.p.A. Reporting Guidelines” published in 2013 by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The Group is also member of the GRI’s Gold Community.
The qualitative and quantitative information contained in this Report refers to Autogrill S.p.A. and its subsidiaries at 31 December 2015, unless otherwise specified, broken down by the following three operating sectors: • North America - includes United States and Canada; • International - includes “North Europe”: The Netherlands (Schiphol airport and Utrecht railway station), Finland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Norway and the “Rest of the world”: Australia, United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam and China. • Europe – includes Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands (highways), Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. 2014 and 2013 data have been re-classified to reflect the new organization above described.
The economic-financial highlights are retrieved from Hyperion (a software application that implements automated procedures for the periodic consolidation of accounting data and the preparation of reporting documents). All the other social and environmental information is con- tained in the Sustainability Package, the reporting system through which the Group collects information and data regarding sustainability from the different countries according to GRI-G4 guidelines.
The Group’s economic and financial aspects and the Group’s Corporate Governance are de- tailed in greater depth in the following documents: “2015 Annual Report”, “2015 Corporate Governance and Ownership Report”, “2015 Remuneration Report” made available on the Company’s website at www.autogrill.com. The indipendent review of this report was carried out by Deloitte & Touche S.p.A. which released an “Independent Auditors’ Report” upon completion of the activity.
Materiality, responsibility and stakeholder engagement represent the three key aspects to analyze in order to add value to the Company’s sustainability policies. In fact, the Autogrill Sustainability Report is based on the principles of materiality, completeness, stakeholder inclu- siveness and sustainability context.
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Principles for the definition of contents
Materiality Sustainability context Stakeholder inclusiveness Completeness The content of this Report is based on the The Report illustrates the The Report identifies the The objective of this Report is reporting the concept of materiality, including the most Group’s performance with Group’s stakeholders and economic, social and environmental aspects relevant themes for the company and the reference to sustainability. explains how the Group has relative to the main geographic markets in topics and indicators that reflect the significant responded to stakeholders’ which the Group operates, enabling economic, environmental and social impacts expectations and interests. stakeholders to have a more complete of the Group or that may substantially overview for evaluation purposes. influence stakeholder evaluations and decisions. Drafting criteria
Principles guaranteeing the quality of contents
Balance Clarity Accuracy Timing Comparability Accountability
How to read the Autogrill Sustainability Report
With a view to providing a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of the Group’s activities, the Sustainability Report concentrates on three key areas defined as strategic for Autogrill’s business: “People”, “Product” and “Planet”. Divided in chapters, the Sustainability Report illustrates the Group’s approach to each single area and includes details about the initiatives undertaken in all the countries in which the Group operates. Each issue is dealt with People according to a materiality perspective (see chapters below). In addition to text, graphics for reference to the strategic areas - “People”, “Product” and “Planet” - was used to illustrate the size of the impact of the Group’s sustainability actions and their interaction with all business aspects. Product The Report is divided in chapters and paragraphs for easy identification of the references to the information requested and the indicators relative to the GRI G4 guidelines (for the sake of completion, see the “GRI G4 Content Index” on page 135). The amounts indicated in this document are expressed in euro millions or thousands or m€ Planet and k€, respectively, (unless otherwise specified), and an indication is provided when the aggregated data is a result of estimates.
The previous 2014 edition was published on May 29, 2015 on the Company’s website at www.autogrill.com in the section dedicated to sustainability.
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Materiality Analysis business reports general opinion reports up for each issue in order to measure the importance of the same issue to the organization (internal analysis) and the importance stakeholders attribute to it (analysis of external that then consolidated and mapped on a graph perspective). The issues taken into account were verticalshowing stakeholder expectations on the axis and the importance that the success on the organization attributes to the items analyzed with a view to business horizontal axis. requests (resulting from customer satisfaction surveys)consumer requests (resulting from customer satisfaction workers requests (resulting from employee engagement surveys) analysis of Autogrill press review interviews to analyze their with managers who are in direct contact with the stakeholders perception about the issues. After completing these analyses and sharing the corresponding outcomes, all scores were summedAfter completing these analyses and sharing • • • international • international • • 5. Development of the materiality chart materiality the of Development 5. Autogrill Group Comments to the chart Comments period. specific this in The chart issues Autogrill to reflects theimportance of the sustainability reason the chart this should not be for and time over change trends and The pressures updated. be should instead and periodically or final, static either considered the for entire issue substantial and a key definition by the considered law with is Compliance reflected the materiality not directly in was it why is This population of the organization. of the importance of the various the for definition a criterion as accounted for but is analysis, of the the element at an basis considered engagement is stakeholder In the same way, issues. included as is reason it this For the analysis. for materiality key is and concept of sustainability the chart, in As indicated it. in not visible is and the of for development the graph a criterion those and offering, its and business core its to refer Autogrill issues for material the key of the the definition in resulted analysis This connected people with workers. particular its - in be to objectives the sustainability new establishing Roadmap, Afuture 2016-2018 new workers, with – quality of APeople relationships the areas the in nextreached years in three HR competency-based and development – product assessment; quality AProduct safety, and supply chain communication, and product information service and accessibility quality, management; and APlanet – waste management. After completion of the first general analysis of the issues by CSR Department (which, for self- for of the Department issues CSR by analysis After general (which, of the completion first based on the long run and sustainability, particularlyexplanatory is towards oriented reasons, of the otherdivisions the same issues), from / opportunities risks emerging assessing at aimed by assigned the process the and ratings share to invited also were the organization based on analysis the vertical and corresponding internal a specialist to contributing experts issues). (as on the different responsibilities and competencies perspective external of Analysis 4. to in order inclusiveness stakeholder of principle the on based also analyzed were issues The take into account their perspective through: 10 Management) the (by analysis internal Specialist 3. (G4-27)
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The world of Autogrill
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