Stakeholder Letter we are excited to issue Beurer’s 3rd sustainability report. It was again prepared with reference to the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative. For the immediate future, we see many changes in the field of sustainability reporting, with the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) also applying to us from the financial year 2025/26 onwards. The new reporting directives mean a lot of additional workload to our team. But we see them also as an opportunity to install a new measurement mechanism for one of the biggest challenges of our times. Already now, we have started our preparations and are in the process of completing our materiality assessment. Exciting times are ahead! Despite the new reporting requirements, we have not at all lost focus in driving sustainability in our day-to-day business activities. We are continuing to expand our Green Planet range while also switching our packaging to use less plastic and recycled materials where possible. We take our role as a manufacturer and endconsumer brand with a focus on sustainability very seriously. Therefore, we are continuing to work on our ratings on various platforms, while also increasing the number of our suppliers on the platform Amfori. All listed suppliers on the platform are audited based on environmental and social criteria. Starting from the financial year 2023/24, we ask our suppliers to switch from the ISO 14001 standard to BEPI audits. We see the increased requirements in these audits as an opportunity to gain further insights into our supply chain and increase transparency, opening up the conversation for DEAR STAKEHOLDERS, Marco Buehler / CEO Beurer GmbH Marco Buehler / CEO GRI 2-22 opportunities for improvement in the environmental sphere. In the field of emissions, we are making big steps to improve our scope 1 & 2 footprints, for example by installing solar systems on all our big production and logistic sites. At the same time we are also focusing on improving our ability to calculate our scope 3 footprint. Several of our production sites have been set up with solar panels to decrease energy consumption related emissions. Regarding our indirect emissions of Scope 3 we will hand in our near-term targets to the Science Based Targets Initiative in the coming months. Various exciting projects are planned or still ongoing in this area, and we continue to look for newways to reduce our footprint. Our partnership with BaumInvest also remains strong, with 110.000 trees already planted and now growing every day. Looking back over our achievements in the field of sustainability over the past years, I am proud of how far we have come, also thanks to the team working tirelessly on the subject. Nevertheless, there is much left to do, with you, our stakeholders, relying on us to further improve our efforts. We are excited to see where the next several years will take us. I hope you enjoy reading about our sustainability journey. I promise to continue to pursue our endeavor to make Beurer more sustainable in the years to come with the utmost urgency. Stakeholder Letter 3 1.0 About Beurer 4 History + product world 5 Headquarter + Beurer Group 8 Number of employees and revenue growth 10 Our awards 10 The Beurer Values 11 2.0 Strategy and Goals 12 Sustainability Timeline 14 2.1 Our strategy and goals for sustainable development 16 2.2 Our most significant impacts 20 2.3 Our most significant stakeholder groups 22 3.0 Our Commitment to Sustainability 24 3.1 Protecting the climate 26 3.2 Our approach to circular economy 30 3.3 Our approach to sustainable packaging 32 3.4 Sustainable supply chain management 34 3.5 Health and wellbeing of our customers 38 3.5.1 The wellbeing of our customers 39 3.5.2 Our digital responsibility 39 3.6 Our people 40 3.7 Our social responsibility 42 4.0. Reading Guide 46 4.1 Scopes and indicators 48 4.2 Information about the methodological context 48 4.3 Definition of material topics 50 4.4 GRI content index 51 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 2
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