ROQUETTE writes its first Sustainable Development report

At the end of 2008, Roquette’s General Management decided to incorporate a Sustainable Development cell into the Reliability Department, thereby creating up the Group’s Reliability & Sustainable Development Department (DFDD). Its first assignment was to write the first report on Sustainable Development. To do so, the DFDD relied on a benchmark of more than 20 reports, and on “best practices to improve your SD report” recommended annually by KPMG. They determined the contents of the report, then set up a network of contacts in most of Roquette’s industrial sites to collect, coordinate and disseminate each site’s actions in line with the contents. They also relied upon all communication tools available within the company (Intranet, Internet, articles published in journals, etc.). The 2 members of the DFDD team worked with a trainee (preparing a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development) to write and lay out articles. The report was also printed in-house.

In order to improve the next report, the company called a consulting agency specialised in organisational communication (‘’Quel progrès!’’) to review the report. The agency highlighted the strong and weak points of the first report.

In 2014, Roquette wrote its 6th Sustainable Development Report and, for the first time, included CSR report in its Management Report, in accordance with the Decree 2012-557 of 24/04/12 on the transparency of companies for social and environmental matters.

Best Practice selected by the Lille World Forum in 2010 and updated in 2015 for its evolution.