Kesko awarded for Finland's best sustainability report
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KESKO CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 06.11.2013 AT 17.00 1(2)
Kesko's Corporate Responsibility Report 2012 was chosen as Finland's best in
this year's Sustainability Reporting Award Finland Competition. Kesko's report
was ranked the best also by the media and non-governmental organisations.
According to the jury, Kesko has reported exceptionally well on its social and
economic responsibility and distinguishes with, for example, the description of
supply chains management, product responsibility, anti-corruption actions and
principles.
The winner was selected by the group of competition organisers, which included
Aalto University School of Economics, the Finnish Institute of Authorised Public
Accountants, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, the Association for
Environmental Management, the Ministry of the Environment and Corporate
Responsibility Network FIBS.
- In describing the company's stakeholder impact and social and environmental
footprint, the significance of a listed company's corporate responsibility
report equals, if not surpasses, the annual report. Assured indicators and
descriptions in a corporate responsibility report provide a more comprehensive
picture of the company's operations and sustainable development than the
traditional income statement and balance sheet, says Matti Halmesmäki, Kesko's
President and CEO.
Kesko has received a total of 16 awards in the Sustainability Reporting Award
Finland Competition launched in 1996.
Kesko's report was the media's and NGOs' favourite
The Sustainability Reporting Award Finland Competition includes the Reader's
Choice Award category, in which the media, non-governmental organisations,
students and investors choose the best report based on their own criteria.
The media and non-governmental organisations selected Kesko's report as the
best. This year, the media's choice was made by the Talouselämä magazine.
-For the media, it is essential that the company reports all that is material
and presents it in a manner that makes the information easy to find. The result
is better if irrelevant information is left out, says Reijo Ruokanen, the
Talouselämä Editor-in-Chief.
VATES Foundation, the organisation making NGOs' choice for the winner,
appreciates reporting on the diversity of working life and the K-Group's work in
employing people with disabilities.
-Kesko's report presents excellent development and operating models which, while
promoting the wellbeing of the whole working community, also help disabled
people in getting jobs and contribute to the working capacity of partially
disabled people, says Marjatta Varanka, Managing Director of VATES Foundation.
More detailed information on the evaluation criteria of the 2013 competition,
presenters of the awards and selection criteria are available in the summary
report on FIBS' website at www.fibsry.fi. Kesko's Responsibility Report 2012 can
be read or ordered at http://www.kesko.fi/en/Responsibility/
Further information is available from Matti Kalervo, Kesko's Vice President for
Corporate Responsibility, telephone +358 105 322 536 and Corporate
Responsibility Advisor Satu Kuoppamäki, telephone +358 105 322 649.
Kesko (www.kesko.fi) is one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in
the World. We are a retail specialist whose chains have about 2,000 stores in
the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus. Our stores offer quality
to the daily lives of consumers.
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