sustainability report LETTER to the STAKEHOLDERs 5 La Sportiva for sustainable development goals 6 LA SPORTIVA IN FIGURES 8 1. INNOVATION WITH PASSION 10 1.1 For your mountain 12 1.2 Welcome to Val di Fiemme 14 1.3 The growth of La Sportiva 15 1.4 Val di Fiemme, the economic fabric 16 1.5 Since 1928 18 1.6 Everything for someone 22 1.7 The brand store 24 1.8 Stakeholders 26 1.9 The materiality matrix 27 1.10 Relevant issues for La Sportiva and stakeholders 28 indEX 2. a company with a dolomitic spirit 32 2.1 The group and the system of governance 35 2.2 An integrated management system 37 2.3 The interantional presence, the markets served 37 Sustainability report 2.4 Performance and economic results 38 2018 Edition 3. INNOVATION AND RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 41 3.1 Environmentally friendly products 42 3.2 Fundraising 43 La Sportiva S.p.A. 3.3 How a La Sportiva product is born 44 Via Ischia n. 2 3.4 Objective reduction of waste 47 38030 Ziano di Fiemme (TN) Italy 3.5 Fundraising 43 Tel. +39 0462 57080 3.6 ECO-Design: an example of circular economy 48 Fax +39 0462 570810 E-mail [email protected] 3.7 La Sportiva for agriculture 49 www.lasportiva.com 3.8 The increase in life time value: resoling 50 3.9 Waste: a resource 51 Credits: 3.10 The sustainable supply chain 53 This document has been produced 3.11 Clean and renewable energy 54 With the technical-methodological assistance of 3.12 Less water, more air 56 Trentino Green Network www.trentinogreen.net. 4. human capital 58 Graphic Design by La Sportiva/Francesco Bonvecchio 4.1 Our people 60 4.2 Training 64 Printed in December 2019 by Esperia Srl - Lavis (TN) ITALIA 4.3 Network #welfaretrentino 65 This document has been printed limiting the number of copies to the strict minimum. 4.4 Safety in the work environment 66 We chose Fedrigoni Oikos paper, produced with 50% recycled paper and 50% pure FSC 4.5 La Sportiva for social 67 certified cellulose (raw materials derived from sustainably managed forests). 4.6 Fundraising 69 5. the COMmUNICAtion 70 5.1 Content is king 70 5.2 Social networks 71 5.3 La Sportiva 90th: a multimedia project 72 5.4 International sales meeting 73 5.5 The ambassadors: the Laspo team 74 5.6 La Sportiva on stage 75 5.6 Awards 76 6. APPENDIx 77 6.1 Metodological notes 77 6.2 Content index 78 - GRI 102-1 GRI 102-3 GRI 102-4 GRI 102-53 - letter to stakeholders The second edition of the Sustainability Report is our way of telling with transparency who we are, our commitment to people and to the territory that hosts us. We tell how from Trentino and from our Val di Fiemme we have gone into the world, thinking locally but acting globally. It is a budget, but for us it is above all a tool that focuses on where we are on our path to sustainability and that allows us to make increasingly conscious and responsible decisions for our future. For La Sportiva, being sustainable means first of all picking up a legacy, that of the mountain that surrounds us, and transmitting the same passion to others: investing in eco-friendly solutions and product quality, in the workplace and in the production process too. Sustainability is for us a fundamental driving force at the base of innovation that pushes us to look for solutions with low environmental impact and that extend the life cycle of our products. My family and I, are proud of the growth we are experiencing, so much so as to have achieved an important expansion of the production area always here in the Fiemme Valley. A community rather than a simple territory, which gave rise to this company by integrating it into its social fabric. It is towards this reality, made up of people and the environment, that we feel indebted. Reducing our impact with virtuous best practices, always assessing the sustainability of our choices and improving the quality of life of our community, are values pinned in our DNA. These values are transmitted by being strengthened from generation to generation within our family, “contaminating” all our collaborators and the external realities that work with us. In fact, we strongly believe in the growth of the relationship with our stakeholders, suppliers, customers and all the public and private entities with which we have Lorenzo Delladio ongoing relationships that give life to our presence on the territory and in the world. Working together in a sustainable direction, we can really be agents of change and make a difference. CEO & President We are committed to proceeding with this project and we are talking about it in this publication, knowing that, just like when approaching a mountain, the summit is impervious but not unreachable. In the concept of “for your mountain” there is also all of this. - GRI 102-14 - 5 La Sportiva is committed to identifying La Sportiva is committed to increasing circular economy solutions for recycling energy supply from renewable sources and reusing materials in production. and improving energy performance. The company creates products The main projects include the district La Sportiva characterized by durability, sensitizes heating plant built for the new production consumers and encourages reuse by site with the collaboration of the offering a repair service to extend the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme. Sustainable life of the product. Innovation is a characterizing aspect La Sportiva creates employment of the industrial development of the opportunities at local level, contributing company, which constantly introduces to the economic growth of the Val di new products partly patented on the Fiemme, both through recruitment and Development market. through the selection of suppliers. The efficiency orientation of the production process is another important asset, as shown by the conception of the La Sportiva has been operating for over 90 years in the new plant. Goals fascinating environmental context of Val di Fiemme, a valley at the foot of the Dolomites, a world heritage site. The quality of the work environment, La Sportiva creates employment This localization has always brought with it a social corporate welfare, training, health and opportunities at the local level, safety at work are important issues for contributing to the economic growth and environmental responsibility that is strongly La Sportiva, committed to the prevention of the Val di Fiemme, both through felt within the company which, through methods and and protection of health and to improving recruitment and through the selection of work processes with low environmental impact, safety in the workplace. suppliers. good practices, eco products and certifications, has always placed the relationship with the company first. environment by seeking an approach that is as eco- friendly as possible. We are always searching for technologies, techniques, The quality of the air, the reduction of emissions and the management of processes and materials capable of constantly environmental impacts along the entire production chain are aspects that La evolving our products and ways of experiencing the Sportiva takes special care of. The virtuous project of re-using processing waste allows the reduction of emissions in the production chain. mountains, and in doing so we pay the utmost attention Emission control is also achieved through the management of home-work to environmental respect and all possible solutions commuting and parking. to reduce raw material waste and CO2 emissions in relation to the Objectives for Sustainable Development of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. 6 - GRI 102-12 GRI 304-1 - 7 la sportiva in figures La Sportiva SpA 2018 La Sportiva Group more than more than consolidated turnover 96 2018 116 300 300 MILlions € MILlions € aMBASSADORs events 341 employees 400 297.000liters 11.o00kilos water saved in the recycled rubber in the production process production process (ziano di fiemme) (ziano di fiemme) 2,2 millions 82 % 74 export served articles produced markets (worldwide) 8 - GRI 102-6 GRI 102-7 - 9 - CHAPTER 1 - Innovation with passion “Mountaineers, climbers, runners, ski mountaineers, collaborators, internal and external suppliers: these are the people who make the difference and who every day contribute to evolving technologies, machinery, materials, processes and ways of understanding the mountain from a sustainable perspective” Lorenzo Delladio, CEO & President 10 - CHAPTER 1 - for your mountain The mission of producing boots, shoes and sportswear keeping us faithful to the values of a family business with almost a century of history is a daily challenge. Our guide is the passion and our passion is the mountain: respecting the environment in which we operate is at the base of our activity, it is what we want to transfer to the users through our products. This is what we mean by “FOR YOUR MOUNTAIN”. 12 - GRI 102-16 - 13 - CHAPTER 1 - the growth VAL DI FIEMME of LA SPORTIVA Tesero Tesero Ziano di Fiemme Loc. PIERA Served markets Val di Fiemme Val di Fiemme Triveneto 6-19 25-68 74 e Val di Fassa Countries Countries Countries 1951 1960 1971 1995 1928 2018 Dates 1950 1959 1970 1994 2017 150 2500 25000 mq mq mq TESERO Tesero ZIANO Locations Loc. PIERA Piazza DI FIEMME Cesare Battisti Via Ischia 50 1500 8000 welcome to mq mq mq Tesero TESERO Loc. PIERA ZIANO Via Roma DI FIEMME val di fiemme Via Ischia “We do business in the mountains in Val di Fiemme, at an altitude of 1000 meters, in the heart of the Dolomites.” N° Employees Lanfranco Brugnoli, General Manager 2-4 4-11 11-30 30-80 80-300 341 14 - GRI 102-7 - 15 - CHAPTER 1 - val di fiemme, the economic scenario La Sportiva is Val di Fiemme: an alpine setting that welcomes the company and feeds a relationship of respect for the mountain and the people who live there.