ABOUT THE REPORT Welcome to the ege Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report for the financial year from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019. The report includes our statutory corporate social responsibility report, cf. Section 99a of the Danish Financial Statements Act1, and firm of auditors EY has ensured that the report is in compliance with the Act. The report also serves as our Communication on Progress report for the UN Global Compact. For the second time, the CSR Report includes the entire ege Group, comprising four brands, which together have six production sites: egetæpper with production at egetæpper Herning, egetæpper Gram and UAB Litspin, and the three brands Hammer Carpets, Bentzon Carpets and Carpet Concept, each with their own production. As a consequence, in this year’s report we can now review the development in the figures for the entire Group. A lot has already happened during this first year with a new Group structure and we are very pleased to present this year's CSR Report. The Report is based on the seven focus areas set out in the CSR standard, DS 49001, under which egetæpper in Herning and in Gram both hold certification. While egetæpper has taken a dedicated approach to CSR work for several decades, the other brands in the Group only began to take a systematic approach during the past year. This means that there are considerable differences between input and results. Nonetheless, after the first year we can already see that all brands are moving in the right direction, giving higher priority to their important sustainability and social responsibility activities. After more than 20 years of EMAS registration of egetæpper in Herning and Gram, we have decided to terminate the agreement with EMAS. As a consequence, this year there is no published EMAS statement with verified figures for these two production sites. The agreement has been terminated because the current legislation and the other management systems according to which we are certified ensure that we are adequately covered for the same parameters as are covered by EMAS. The figures in the CSR Report have not been verified by a third party. In the long term, we would like all figures to be externally verified. Until then, we emphasise that we devote a lot of internal work to verifying the figures for the individual brands. In last year's CSR Report, we launched the #sustainablestories hashtag. Under this hashtag we focus on good stories and current issues. We continue to hope that other companies will seize the opportunity to share their stories under this hashtag. This year, we are also introducing greater visibility of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the Report by inserting the icons representing the various different goals in the Report when we present our work on the goal in question. Questions concerning the CSR report can be addressed to: Group CSR Director Henrik Schmidt Hansen: hsh@egegroup.dk CSR Manager Dorthe Aaboe Kallestrup: dak@egegroup.dk 1 See Annex 1 for further details of Section 99a.
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