{"id":219315,"date":"2023-03-23T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/?p=219315"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T09:23:28","slug":"sustainability-report-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/sustainability-report-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Growens shares the fourth edition of its Sustainability Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the fourth consecutive year, Growens publishes its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BS22_ENG_definitivo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainability Report<\/a>. The new 2022 edition includes some innovations, starting from an updated materiality analysis to a stronger focus on initiatives<\/span><b> towards the environment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BS22_ENG_definitivo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-215268 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2246\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner.jpeg 2246w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-300x111.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-1024x380.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-768x285.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-1536x570.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-2048x760.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-70x26.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sustainability-banner-1920x713.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2246px) 100vw, 2246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its fourth edition, the Report is part of an increasingly articulated and strategic sustainability path, which aims at the<\/span><\/i><b><i> progressive integration of ESG issues<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in every aspect of the Group&#8217;s business: from policies in favor of people to the expansion of environment-related activities; from support for local communities to relief actions for the Ukrainian population.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 was a<\/span><\/i><b><i> key year <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the evolution of the Group. Exactly twenty years earlier, in 2002, we founded the company that, in the following two decades, would become the strong, healthy and international Group it is today.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the words, taken from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/letter-stakeholders-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letter to Stakeholders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stated by the CEO Nazzareno Gorni and the Chairman Matteo Monfredini about the role and purpose of the 2022 Sustainability Report.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Process, perimeter and framework of the Report\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sustainability Report is issued on a voluntary basis by the Group. It includes the goals proposed by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/2030agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>UN 2030 Agenda <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and is drawn up according to the guidelines of the <\/span><b>GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, issued in 2016 by the Global Reporting Initiative and updated in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To account for its activities, Growens created an internal group within the company, with the task of collecting the information required for the drafting of the document. The report covers the period from <\/span><b>1 January \u2013 31 December 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Material topics and document structure\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like every year, the Company has updated the materiality analysis, as a valuable tool capable of intercepting information needs to be included in the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A structured process was put in place to identify the main impacts that the<\/span><b> Group&#8217;s activities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have or could have on the ESG (environmental, social and economic) sphere. This enabled a detailed definition of the reference context both inside and outside the organization:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benchmark analysis on a sample of <\/span><b>15 competitors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, peers and comparable companies;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of <\/span><b>existing internal documentation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as strategic plans, company policies and procedures, management systems and sustainability plans;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of public files, articles, statistics, reports, sector studies on the impacts generated by companies in the <\/span><b>IT industry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessment of the <\/span><b>main international standards and frameworks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adopted in sustainability reporting (GRI Standards, SASB, TCFD), including those to be published soon (ESRS and IFRS Sustainability Standards).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of this first phase, the impacts identified were clustered on the basis of their mutual level of affinity, in order to obtain a shortlist of <\/span><b>14 ESG topics <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be subjected to quantitative assessment by the Top Management (9 managers) and a representative sample of the main categories of Group Stakeholders (27 customers, 75 employees and 1 investor).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such topics were connected to the following areas: governance area, economic area, social area, infrastructural area, environmental area. They were submitted to the main categories of Company Stakeholders through an <\/span><b>online questionnaire <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(in Italian, English or Spanish according to the recipient).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through such questionnaire, the Stakeholders expressed their assessment <\/span><b>on the significance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the non-financial impacts (taking into account their size\/severity and probability) that the Growens Group&#8217;s corporate activities and its value chain generate or could generate on the economic, environmental and social spheres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the process, the results allowed to identify and prioritize<\/span><b> 8 material topics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Growens Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219322 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01.png\" alt=\"Material topics\" width=\"1310\" height=\"1754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01.png 1310w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01-765x1024.png 765w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01-768x1028.png 768w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01-1147x1536.png 1147w, https:\/\/www.growens.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-20-alle-11.44.01-70x94.png 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Growens&#8217; main initiatives in 2022<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Group has arranged its 2022 Sustainability Report by dividing it into <\/span><b>three macro-areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: governance, environment and social (ESG). For each one, Growens has then reported, in detail, its work with reference to the topics that were selected as material for the Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Governance\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 marked an important evolution in the Group\u2019s history, which has earned the title of <\/span><b>main Italian player in the cloud marketing technologies sector <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thanks to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/contactlab-conference-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contactlab acquisition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its merger with MailUp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given its strong expansion, Growens was included among the 800 fastest growing Italian companies according to Repubblica Affari &amp; Finanza, earning the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/2023-growth-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023 Champions of Growth award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022 the Group <\/span><b>distributed 99% of the economic value generated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, contributing to the wealth of the ecosystem with which it interacts (employees, investors and communities).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Environment\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growens has always been involved in activities towards the environment, and 2022 saw the beginning of more structured initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Group has kept enlarging <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tree-nation.com\/profile\/growens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its forest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in collaboration with <\/span><b>Tree-Nation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In order to offset the carbon emissions produced by all its business units and for each new customer who relies on its services, the Group plants trees and supports forest conservation projects, with the aim of <\/span><b>offsetting its <\/b><b>CO<\/b><b>2<\/b><b> production<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During 2022 Growens has:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planted <\/span><b>9113 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reforested <\/span><b>8.1 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hectares<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absorbed <\/span><b>2088,69<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tons of <\/span><b>CO<\/b><b>2<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last, for its cloud infrastructure, the Group has chosen to refer to <\/span><b>Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which undertakes to manage its activities in terms of carbon dioxide reduction, allowing <\/span><b>savings of over -67% of <\/b><b>CO<\/b><b>2<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Social<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Group does business taking into consideration the <\/span><b>social context in which it operates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the people who <\/span><b>work for and within the Company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/a-year-of-wow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WoW manifesto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which guarantees the entire organization a hybrid and flexible way of working, turned one year in 2022, keeping on its mission to guarantee all employees a<\/span><b> better work\/life balance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Group also continued to pay the utmost attention to<\/span><b> customer data protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and to financially <\/span><b>support sports, cultural and non-profit associations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the communities in which it operates, for a greater social well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The document transparently shares to Stakeholders Growens\u2019 values, strategies and performances connected to economic, social and environmental impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-219315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-sustainability-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219332,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219315\/revisions\/219332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}