As part of Oakley’s Portfolio Company Programme, we recently hosted our second ESG Forum, bringing together sustainability practitioners from across our management teams to network and share key learnings. Our internal and external speakers provided highly relevant insights on ESG hot topics including carbon footprints, EDI, governance and cybersecurity. We’re pleased to share key takeaways from participants, as we build engagement and debate ahead of our next events.
Madalina Preda
“We're very proud that our apparel business is a B Corp certified company. We're working on getting B Corp certification for our sailmaking business as well. And we've set some ambitious but attainable goals for how to embed sustainability across our entire operations from reducing emissions, from how we manufacture our products to how we work with our suppliers and making sure that we have very strict standards environmental and human rights standards for our suppliers.”
“Since Grupo Primavera’s inception, our slogan has been: “together we grow”. This means that we care about society, we care about our ecosystem, and ESG is part of our strategy. So every single thing we do, we do it with our all our stakeholders in mind. We want ESG to be a key differentiator and what we've done is to find ambassadors within the team to help develop an ESG culture. Across our brands, we share our policies, our actions, our diversity practices, and we share them with our employees.”
Alex Caicics
“We are an education business and our mission is to make education accessible to people for whom it would be a challenge to get an education otherwise. We provide a lot of scholarships to people in developing countries, to people from disadvantaged backgrounds. We promote diversity by support female students to enter technical and IT professions, disciplines where they are underrepresented. Oakley is a big inspiration for us, providing a lot of support in terms of methodology, in terms of techniques and what to prioritise. It's a very productive, very constructive dialogue.”
“We are a B Corp company which means our way of living sustainability has been officially recognised. We have a three-pillar strategy: beginning with product, which is the combination of arts and industrialization, in effect creating affordable art for the for the common people through everyday objects. The second pillar is the community- we contribute to community schools, to local institutions such as hospitals. And the third pillar is our employees- we provide welfare and insurance programmes, they are like our family. Oakley has helped Alessi to standardise our approach to ESG and networking with other management teams also gives us an understanding of how other international companies are approaching sustainability challenges.”
Aga Siemiginowska
“It's been an amazing few years here at Oakley. We have been able to really engage with our portfolio companies, ramp up a programme and really start to embed ESG into their day-to-day practices. I think what I'm most proud of is that the companies have started to think about how ESG is a part of their strategy. Were definitely focused on moving from ‘ESG as a hygiene factor’ and into the strategic."
