Our Path to Sustainability
The Project
Atlantis reflects the true “Italian spirit” with its creativity, service, and constant innovation. We wanted to add also sustainability. Each year we distribute millions of products throughout the world, for this reason we want to commit ourselves to the challenge of contributing positively to the future of our planet by embarking on a new journey of sustainability which will involve everyone collaborating with us. We have therefore decided to begin a process of improvement towards a sustainable business model, through a strategy aimed at quantifying our present environmental and social footprint and setting concrete objectives to improve it. This first Atlantis Sustainability project, started in 2017, was based on a research project coordinated by the Ca' Foscari Foundation. The project continued and was improved by our collaboration with SGS Italia S.p.a. in 2018 which intends to define a Strategic Sustainability Plan and concrete actions in the short-medium-long term. Our goal is to increasingly integrate environmental and social aspects into our way of working.
People
It's very important to us having an open, transparent and honest dialogue with our stakeholders. We want to grow long and profitable relationships based on trust, promote mutual improvement and keep creating value for all the people collaborating and working with us.
Targets:
- Updating of the Company Code of Ethics with reputational and whistleblowing issues.
- Development of a structured stakeholder engagement plan.
- Incentive for youth employment
- Greater awareness of Suppliers about the ethical and social benefits incorporated in a new, more complete and binding Code of Conduct for Suppliers.
- Greater awareness of Suppliers about the ethical and social benefits incorporated in a new, more complete and binding Code of Conduct for Suppliers.
- Renewal of data collection and Supplier Audit for more serious verification of compliance with the Atlantis guidelines.
- Promotion of mutual improvement and predilection, by Atlantis, of partnerships with Suppliers with a high classification of positive conduct (objective to be achieved for all suppliers).
- Extension of data collection and customer satisfaction indexes, with particular attention to ethical, social and environmental matters in order to promote mutual improvement.
- 80% increase in the operations of shipments by sea with sustainable companies that aim to reduce CO2 emissions by a further 18% by 2020 (already reduced by 43% compared to 2007).
- Optimization of sea transport thanks to the implementation of the calculation of the goods requirement which allows, since the placing of the order, to plan the production of the Atlantis goods and schedule their departure for Full Containers, aiming to reduce the departure on LCL (Less than Container Load) by 40%.
- Measurement of emissions related to the distribution of finished products.
Product
- Measurement of emissions related to the distribution of finished products.
- Product supply chain: identification of a platform or system for monitoring the main environmental impacts due to production.
- Preference for imports by sea over air, in order to reduce CO2 emissions, and making customers aware of this issue.
- Implementation by 31/12/2019 of at least one method to contribute to the compensation of the emissions generated, directly and / or indirectly, by choosing partners who offer services aimed at this objective.
- Research and development on recycling and recyclability of packaging materials.
- Extension of traceability also to customized and Private Label products.