Responsible Business update

  1. Introduction
    • Responsible Business highlights and heritage
  2. Responsible Business strategy and governance
    • Priority areas, governance structures and reporting
  3. Responsible Business performance
    • Priorities (Colleagues, Planet, Customers, Community)
    • Fundamentals

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Progress on our Responsible Business priorities

Category

35%

Colleagues

Gender

Colleagues

40%

Gender

5.0

Colleagues

Learning

million hours

Planet

100%

Wood & Paper

Targets

women in senior leadership by FY25/26

women in management by FY25/26

of skills for life learning by FY25/26

responsibly sourced wood and paper for our products and catalogues by FY25/26

25.8%

38.9%

6.6

million hours

94.5%

Performance

of senior leaders are now women (FY21/22: 25.2%)

of managers are now women (FY21/22: 37.9%)

of learning completed by colleagues since FY19/20, surpassing our target (FY22/23: 2.6 million hours)

of wood and paper used in products responsibly sourced (FY21/22: 87.2%) and 100% of catalogue paper in FY22/23 (FY21/22: 100%)

Planet

Net

Carbon Footprint

Zero

Customers

60%

2.0

Communities

million people

emissions for our operations (scope 1 and 2) by FY40/41

of Group sales to be from our Sustainable Home Products (SHP) and 70% of our OEB products sales by FY25/26

supported whose housing needs are greatest by FY25/26

52.6%

reduction

46.8%

2.1

million people

in our scope 1 and 2 emissions since FY16/17 baseline exceeding our FY25/26 target, which is the first step to our net zero journey (FY21/22: 24.5%)

of total Group sales (FY21/22: 44.1%) and 56.4% of OEB product sales came from SHP in FY22/23 (FY21/22: 54.7%)

have been supported by our projects, therefore hitting our target three years ahead of schedule

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We have a strong heritage in Responsible Business

1993

2010 &

2012

2018

2020

2022

Founding partner of

2011

Net Positive strategy

First net-zero energy

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Published new net zero

the Forest Stewardship

launched, committing

Screwfix outlet opened

strategy launched,

2040 target for our

Council® (FSC®) to help

B&Q awarded the

to a restorative impact

in Peterborough.

Responsible Business

scope 1 and 2

source responsibly

'Best Green Company'

by 2050.

a strategic priority.

emissions.

managed wood.

by The Sunday Times.

Partnership

with Rainforest

Alliance

established.

1991 1998 2011 2017

2019

2021

2022

Published our first responsible timber policy at B&Q and were a founding member of the WWF 1995+ Group.

First UK retailer

Founding partner to

Partnered with the homeless

to label and cut

the Ellen MacArthur

and housing charity Shelter

VOCs in paint.

Foundation, pioneering

to help people who have

circular economy

experienced homelessness

approaches.

feel safe and secure.

Set ambitious 2°C

1.5°C science-based

60% of group sales

science-based targets

target approved by

to be from our

approved by the Science

the Science Based

Sustainable Home

Based Target initiative.

Target initiative.

Products by 2025.

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Responsible Business strategy and governance

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