Interview with a sustainability manager by Anna-Lena, Julia and Emily.
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Interview with a sustainability manager
by Anna-Lena, Julia and Emily
Index
• Sustainability in general
• Interview with Mrs. Louise Dearnley
• Sustainability at METRO Cash & Carry (MCC)
• METRO - Saving the planet
• Outcome
Sustainability in general
Definition:
People are sustainable if they care about
1. social
2. economic
3. environmental
aspects to make sure that future generations can have a good life.
Interview with Louise Darnley
1. What does a sustainability manager have to do?
A: -fact finding
-research
-give presentations
-communication between customers and
other counterparties
Interview
2. How do you make sure that the customers know that you work sustainably?
A: -internet
-communicate with them
-brochures
-labels
-Metro post → advertisement
Interview3. How do you make sure that everybody at METRO Group
works sustainably?
A: -visiting our partners
-testing their work
4. How do you know that there is no forced labour?
A: -can’t be totally sure
-but: we offer acceptable wages
5. How many people are working for the sustainability management in your company?
A: -ten to twelve people fulltime are working in Germany
+many engineers at METRO.
Sustainability at MCC
Quelle:http://www.metrogroup.de/multimedia/WindowTools/html/Image.jpg
Sustainability at MCC
Situation now:• produce waste• Use a lot of energy
Situation in future:• Energy: -use renewable energy resources -reducing energy• Waste: -recycling
Sustainability at MCC
• 50,000 products
10% are sustainable
(Bio-products, energy-saving light
bulbs, …)
• problem: swine flu & economic crisis
→ 15% out of work
METRO - Saving the planet
• Too much energy needed to feed our demands
• Consumer pressure
→plan: differences through small steps
Saving the planet
• Example: New Look
Fashion store in UK
→producer doesn‘t get much
money
Fair wages at METRO
Outcome
• she was honest telling us that there are problems
• she could answer questions comprehensibly
• she gave us a lot of information about the sustainability strategy of METRO