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

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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