LILLE GRAND PALAIS (59) rents spaces for congresses, exhibitions, professional events and performances and organizes events (about 300 events per year).
An enterprise with 88 employees, Lille Grand Palais cares about the environment. Since 2008, it has placed Sustainable Development at the heart of its strategy. For the responsible development of its activities, LILLE GRAND PALAIS anticipates regulatory requirements by minimizing its impact on the environment.
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LILLE GRAND PALAIS incites all stakeholders on Low Carbon Events
1. Organizational Governance
Relations with stakeholders
Transmitter
Context
Objectives
- Reduce environmental impact and offer clients products and services that respect the environment
- Engage with partners in responsible ecology
APPROACH
Over the last 15 years, with an activity where the ephemeral often takes precedence over the durable, Lille Grand Palais continuously pursues a strategy based on innovation to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. It has also developed an advanced social responsibility policy for all its employees. In addition to the imperatives of profitability and customer satisfaction, it has adopted ambitious projects of general public interest, as befits its status as a Societe Anonyme d’Economie Mixte (mixed economic public company).
Lille Grand Palais has launched in an internal CSR initiative and raises awareness and accompanies its stakeholders with Low Carbon Events:
Employees: Signature of the Ego-Gestures Charter by all employees
Suppliers:
- Integration of Sustainable Development criteria in all tender offers
- Signature of the Eco-Responsibility Charter by all referenced service providers
Clients:
- Incentives for Low Carbon Events
- Creation of an alternative eco-responsible commercial offer for each type of service:
- General installation
- Furniture
- Signs
- Meals
- Audiovisual
- Offsetting carbon emissions
CONTRIBUTION TO COMPANY PERFORMANCE
Revenues:
- Fiscal 2006 – 2007: 12.7 M€
- Fiscal 2007 – 2008: 14.8 M€
- Fiscal 2008 – 2009: 19.7 M€
- Fiscal 2009 – 2010: 16 M€
Benefits
- Obtained ISO 14001 certification
- 5 events certified Low Carbon Event
- CREER (CREATE)
- Lille Art Fair
- Personal Services Salon
- Naturevert
- World Forum Lille
- Recycling of carpeting for Low Carbon Events
- 100% of employees trained in the approach
- Country
- France