Group | 11.19.2019
Each year since 2011, EcoAct* has established a ranking of climate reporting performance among component stock companies of stock market indices including France’s CAC 40, the FTSE 100 in the UK, the Spanish IBEX 35 and the DOW 30 in the US.
Group | 10.30.2019
This policy is mainly structured around 5 objectives: gender diversity, inclusivity towards people with disabilities, intergenerational collaboration, Social and cultural diversity, inclusion of LGBT+ people.
group | 10.14.2019
The award was handed over on October 2nd, 2019 in Paris to Emmanuelle Levine, Group General Counsel.
This award is attributed annually by Labrador, the specialist of regulated communication, since 2008 on the basis of an assessment grid designed by an independent scientific committee, comprising 205 criteria.
Group | 08.29.2019
Legrand signed the Climate Manifesto on the occasion of the COP 21 in 2015, and the first version of the French Business Climate Pledge in 2017. Benoît Coquart, CEO, signed the French Climate Pledge on August 29th 2019, in the framework of the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France (LaREF), strengthening Legrand’s historically strong commitment to limiting the impact of its activities on the environment.
Groupe | 07.18.2019
The 14th edition of the Annual General Meeting Awards took place on July 10, 2019 during the Paris Europlace's International Financial Forum.
Legrand won the top prize in the 14th edition of the CAC 40 Annual General Meeting Awards organized by the Institut du Capitalisme Responsable.
Groupe | 06.12.2019
Legrand organized on June 12, 2019 an investor day in Paris with the participation of its entire Executive Committee and its specialists in connected products and digital infrastructure. It will be an opportunity for Legrand to come back on Eliot program’s very good showings at year-end 2018 and Netatmo’s contribution to developing the Group’s connected offering, while announcing new Eliot targets for 2022. Legrand also plans to continue to grow its leadership positions in digital infrastructure (notably in datacenters), a key field in deploying connected objects in buildings.
RSE | 05.02.2019
Legrand, the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, is today publishing its 4th CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) roadmap, which sets out its CSR priorities for the 2019-2021 period. Following on from three highly successful previous roadmaps, today’s new step embodies the Group’s determination to support the development of buildings with a view to progress for its employees, for society and for the planet. This impetus is reflected both in the roadmap’s structure and timespan, and in its priority challenges.
Groupe | 04.10.2019 18:19
The Legrand Registration Document was filed on April 10, 2019 with the Autorité des marchés financiers. The reference document includes, in particular, the annual financial report, the report on corporate governance presented in a dedicated section of the management report of the Board of Directors on March 20, 2019 to the Annual General Meeting scheduled on May 29, 2019 (as well as the report of the Statutory Auditors) as well as the information relating to the fees paid to the statutory auditors.
The reference document is freely available to the public under the conditions provided for by the regulations in force and can be consulted via the links below.
Legrand's responsibility is also to fight against pollution, in particular with regard to water management and emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC).
Legrand precisely measures its Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from the industrial processes implemented at Legrand’s sites. The injection and moulding of plastic components, stamping of metal parts, assembly of plastic, metallic, and electronic components, and painting or surface treatment of components can release VOCs and although the quantities involved are quite low, Legrand is committed to reducing them even further.
10% reduction in VOC emissions
Environmental reporting covers water use on industrial sites. However, to measure the impact of Legrand activities, we need not only to measure the volume of water used by industrial sites (from environmental reports), but also its value: natural abundance of water and competition to access this resource.
All industrial installations are strictly controlled in terms of potential pollution due to discharge into the water.
Legrand does not directly exploit soils nor biodiversity as part of its activities. The Group's manufacturing sites are, for the most part, located in business parks or industrial estates that are subject to specific regulations. Furthermore, the Group considers that the attention paid to reducing water consumption, particularly in areas with water restrictions, contributes to limiting human pressure on ecosystems. Lastly, the manufacturing nature of the Group's activities can enable sites to be configured over several floors, limiting the footprint of these sites.
On the other hand, Legrand takes the concept of grey biodiversity into account. Similar to grey energy, grey biodiversity is the cumulative impact on the ecosystems and biodiversity for the entire life cycle of a material or product (equipment, energy): the extraction, raw materials, manufacturing, transport, commissioning, use and end of life. Each of these steps generates impacts that are more or less significant on the living (destruction of species or habitats, consumption or natural resources, different types of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.).
Evaluating grey biodiversity may make use of PEPs (Product Environmental Profiles) the various indicators of which (intermediate indicators), such as air toxicity, water toxicity or eutrophication, enable us to estimate the potential damage to the diversity of ecosystems (damage indicators). The Group thus has a relatively broad base for an indirect evaluation of its biodiversity footprint.
