Stores & infrastructures

The Green Toolbox

Since 2008, the PPR Group has been committed to a root-and-branch project to integrate environmental criteria into equipping, operating and maintaining its buildings. 
 
As the PPR group is not involved in much construction but is mainly a tenant of the 2,300 stores it occupies all over the world, the Group decided to focus its efforts on existing buildings and particularly on operations and maintenance issues. Indeed, they form the major levers for reducing the environmental impact of existing stores. As a result, 2009 was an opportunity to develop a best practices guide, entitled “The Green Toolbox”, enabling the environmental impact of stores to be reduced.
This document takes the form of a collection of 16 priority and 32 complementary best practices. These have all been selected for their environmental benefit but also because, more often than not, they have a positive economic impact. The green toolbox is intended to be easy to use and pragmatic which was designed on the basis of experience feedback from the Group’s brands.

The aim of the guide is to highlight good practices already in place in certain stores which, due to their proven effectiveness, can be shared and introduced Group-wide. Designed to be practical and easy to use, the guide explains the expected benefits of each good practice, the key success factors and the methods that have enabled them to be successfully deployed. It is intended for use by all individuals working in and for the stores.
 
The publication of the guide, in autumn 2009, was accompanied by an extensive programme of distribution to real estate, maintenance and operations teams as well as store managers. Each Subsidiary organised the distribution of the guide according to its own structural organisation so that it could be put into use as quickly and easily as possible.

2010 saw the continued deployment of The Green Toolbox. Fnac, for example, capitalised on the constructive information feedback provided by introducing a number of measures, such as the stoppage of escalators and Air Treatment Centres at prescribed times, which have yielded substantial energy savings.
The roll-out of the guide, which has so far been limited to the Real Estate and Maintenance departments, is to be extended to Puma stores during 2011.