OUR COMMITMENTS
Sustainable Development Strategy for 2020-2025 ‘For People For Our Planet’ is our response to climate challenges.
Sustainable fashion, reducing environmental impact and social responsibility – these are the tenets underlying all our planning and decision-making – both on a macro and global scale.
We are committed to acting fair at every single stage, which our employees, colleagues, business partners and customers appreciate. However, our priority is to have a positive impact on our planet.
2019
ECO AWARE – PRODUCT
AND PRODUCTION
// 2020
Implementing
Eco Aware Production
programme in the areas
of water management
and energy sourcing.
// 2021
25% of clothes
produced by LPP
are Eco Aware collections.
30% of factories in Southern Asia covered by Eco Aware Production programme.
// 2023
100% of denim production
factories covered by
Eco Aware Production
programme.
Used garments collection
system in 100% of stores.
PLN 1 mln on investment
in new technologies allowing for textile waste utilisation.
// 2025
50% of Reserved garments
in Eco Aware collection.
CO2 reduction by 15%.
CHEMICAL SAFETY IN PRODUCTION
// 2020
ZDHC membership.
// 2021
100% of products containing wool or down will have RDS/RWS certificate.
// 2025
Full compliance with ZDHC standards.
PACKAGING AWARE – PLASTIC UNDER CONTROL
// 2020
100% of online orders packaging of MO and RE without single use plastic.
100% of film for HO, CR and SI online orders shipment recycled.
Limiting single-use film for commercial samples packaging by 50%.
// 2021
100% of price tags film-free.
// 2023
100% of cardboard boxes recycled or certificated.
100% of store packaging recycled.
// 2025
100% of plastic in packaging suitable for re-use, recyclable or biodegradable.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HQ BUILDINGS AND SALES NETWORK
// 2020
Implementing Eco Aware STORES programme.
// 2021
100% of green energy powering our servers and online stores.
// 2023
All new buildings with environmental certification (BREEAM/LEED)
// 2025
100% of stores covered by Eco Aware STORES programme.
2025
GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 2015-2030
We are acting in accordance with the principles of ‘the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. It is a new development plan and a certain ‘crib’ for the world with guidelines as to what the world needs to do to avoid exploiting the environment. The beneficiaries of this approach include governments, international organisations, the business and scientific sectors, and country nationals.
4. GOOD QUALITY EDUCATION
- We constantly invest in the development of our employees. We improve their competences through training or long-term development programmes.
- We support the development of the fashion industry and educate future industry professionals in cooperation with art schools.
- We promote industry professions by demonstrating and offering opportunities for professional development.
- We support young people at risk of exclusion by way of ‘Pierwsza Przymiarka’ [‘First Fitting’] programme.
- We improve conditions for the education of children and young people in municipalities where we carry out investment projects.
8. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DECENT WORK
- We are one of the largest tax payers in Poland and the largest in the Polish coastal area.
- We create over 24 thousand jobs, including over 13 thousand in Poland.
- As a Polish family company from Pomerania, we invest in the development of local entrepreneurship.
- We commission production in Asian countries, thus contributing to the development of the textile and clothing industry in that region. According to our implemented ‘LPP Code of Conduct’ for suppliers, they are obliged to ensure decent working conditions for employees.
- We are developing cooperation with suppliers in Europe, increasing the percentage share of plants located here in the production of clothing for our brands.
9. INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE
- We own one of the largest and most state-of-the-art apparel distribution centres in Central and Eastern Europe. We invest in new warehouse space both in Poland and abroad.
- In the e-commerce channel, we provide solutions allowing for maximum reduction of delivery time to the customer. We have opened a pan-European online store.
- In the area of fashion tech, we invest in the development of cutting-edge technologies. We have implemented electronic tags (RFID) in Reserved stores in Poland.
10. LESS INEQUALITY
- We actively promote diversity within the company through the involvement of our Diversity Team.
- More than a half of the management-level positions are held by women.
- We activate people with disabilities.
- Young people in difficult life situations are also supported as regards gaining professional experience and developing social competences. We invest in education and improve living conditions. Through the activities of our Foundation, we support people at risk of social exclusion.
- We control working conditions and the level of salaries of our suppliers’ employees.
- Our employees engage in employee volunteering activities as part of social support projects.
11. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
- We support the development of Gdańsk and Kraków and the districts where our head offices are located.
- We undertake educational, cultural and recreational activities in Brześć Kujawski, where our new Distribution Centre is being built, and in the whole municipality.
- We address the needs of the local communities in which we operate.
12. RESPONSIBLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
- We care about the quality of our products and verify them as regards the presence of chemicals.
- The share of our brands’ collections made of more environmentally friendly materials is regularly increased.
- We educate suppliers as regards the principles of the ‘LPP Code of Conduct’ and carry out audits in factories in Asia.
- In the stores of our brands in Poland used clothing is collected and given a second life as they are donated to those in need.
13. CLIMATE ACTION
- We have adopted a new Sustainable Development Strategy for 2020-2025 which provides for the use of 100% environmentally friendly packaging and a significant reduction of our carbon footprint.
- We are intensifying cooperation with factories that are taking steps to reduce their environmental impact.
- We apply the ECOoffice principles and measures to minimize our environmental impact.
- In the stores and distribution centres we use the latest technologies that reduce energy consumption.
17. PARTNERSHIPS FOR GOALS
- We joined the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment – a global initiative for a circular economy in plastics management.
- We joined the United Nations Global Compact – the world’s largest business initiative for sustainable development.
- We participate in events related to the promotion of sustainable development and responsible business.
- We cooperate with higher education institutions to contribute to the improvement of the quality of education.
LPP is a family company. Therefore, we feel particular responsibility for future generations and the conditions they will have to live in. As a co-founder of LPP, but also as a father and grandfather, I treat the implementation of the goals guiding our sustainable development strategy as my personal commitment.
TOGETHER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, THAT IS PARTNERSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIPS
We are the first Polish clothing company to join international initiatives aimed at radically reducing environmental impact.
2013
We became the only (to this day) Polish member of ACCORD – The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, which acts on behalf of the fashion industry to improve working conditions in Bangladesh.
2016
We entered into an agreement with the Open Cages organization, which involves our permanent commitment to giving up natural furs, and joined the international Fur Free Retailer initiative.
2017
We became members of the Family Business Network Poland. We are a member of the Responsible Business Forum – an association involves in comprehensive actions to promote sustainable development and social responsibility in business.
LPP’S COMMITMENT:- By 2025, all our plastic packaging will meet one of the following criteria: 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable. The foregoing applies to all packaging in the stores as well as to online sales and logistics operations, including product shipments from suppliers.
2018
We have become one of the partners of the Grant Fund (Development Initiation Fund) – a local fund that provides financial and substantive support for the best Pomeranian cross-sectoral initiatives contributing to the implementation of social and economic change in the local environment or on the scale of the entire Pomorskie Voivodeship. We became members of Pomeranian Employers – the largest and oldest organisation of employers from the Pomorskie Voivodeship. It aims to represent the interests of employers in dealings with the authorities and institutions supervising and controlling enterprises.
2019
We joined the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment – a global initiative for a circular economy in plastics management. We joined the United Nations Global Compact – the world’s largest business initiative for sustainable development.
CHEMICAL STANDARDS
In the newly adopted Sustainable Development Strategy ‘For People For Our Planet’, we declare a clear pro-ecological shift and set ourselves ambitious, measurable goals to be implemented by 2025: to increase the share of more environmentally friendly collections, reduce the use and production of plastics and reduce our carbon footprint, among other things.
LPP’S COMMITMENT:
- Year 2020: we will join Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC). It is a collaboration committed to reducing the chemical footprint in the textile, leather and footwear industries. It currently comprises 150 organizations from all over the world. LPP will probably join it as the first Polish company. The vision of ZDHC is to reduce the use of chemicals harmful to humans and the environment, promote innovation and industry best practice to protect consumers, employees and the environment.
- Together with our suppliers, we will meet strict legal regulations – often exceeding those established for the textile industry – as regards eliminating hazardous chemicals in our supply chain. By 2025, we will have achieved full compliance with ZDHC requirements.
For more information about the substances which we are limiting in the production of our collections, click here.
LPP FOR POLAND
Our brands are gaining more and more popularity worldwide, but we are and will remain a Polish family business, so we pay taxes in Poland. This way, we support domestic economy and consciously build responsible relations with our environment.
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It was here, in Poland, where the concepts of our brands were developed and all strategic decisions related to the future of LPP are made. We exert a significant, positive impact on the social and economic sphere of the country, including on local communities: 65% of the product value, which consists of designers’ work, distribution, IT and taxes, is the value generated in Poland. LPP’s activity has an extremely positive influence on our country’s economy. We are the largest tax payer on the Polish coast area and one of the largest in Poland, as well as an important participant in social and economic life. We have formulated an ambitious development plan until 2021, which assumes domestic investments amounting to PLN 2 billion and will definitely improve the economic situation of the country to a significant extent.
SINCE 2015 WE HAVE PAID THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS TO THE STATE BUDGET IN TOTAL:
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 01.2019/ 01.2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAT | 412 945 | 488 056 | 529 929 | 540 869 | 604 754 |
| Corporate Income Tax – CIT | 44 401 | 5 692 | 41 703 | 144 909 | 133 994 |
| Customs duty | 149 204 | 143 259 | 157 869 | 132 283 | 239 961 |
| Personal Income Tax – PIT | 16 871 | 14 256 | 18 994 | 20 275 | 24 459 |
| ZUS employee | 11 154 | 14 828 | 19 890 | 22 884 | |
| ZUS employer | 15 779 | 21 068 | 27 866 | 32 932 | |
| Health insurance contributions | 5 370 | 9 313 | 12 617 | 14 754 | |
| ZUS total | 60 373 | 70 570 | 88 925 | ||
| the State Fund for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled (PFRON) | 118 | 345 | 590 | 696 | 944 |
| Real estate tax | 2 954 | 3 225 | 3 607 | 3 791 | 4 578 |
| Tax on means of transport | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Total [PLN thousand] | 658 799 | 700 045 | 813 068 | 913 396 | 1 097 619 |
The full 2019/20 report may be found here:
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