Being a responsible actor

To this end, we continuously monitor consumption to detect anomalies and analyze consumption. Low-consumption lamps and equipment are installed, as are variable speed drives in ventilation units. Finally, we take care to identify best practices at each site, share them and duplicate them in all stores.
By 2023, the energy consumption of all our Printemps sites (stores, head office and logistics site) has been reduced by 31% compared with 2018. 

Naturally, shopping bags play a large role in our activities. This is why, since 2017, all our bags are 100% made of FSC certified paper. Since 2018, they are also stamped with the Triman logo to encourage their recycling. Additionally, the amount of our paper printing is being carefully monitored. Between 2015 and 2018, the number of prints dropped by more than 25%, from 14.7 million down to 10.9 million.
Similarly, fountains connected to running water are being installed at the headquarters and back offices of the Group's stores to replace plastic bottles. This programme also includes the distribution of reusable Gobi bottles to the employees.

For several months, the Printemps Group has been working to improve its waste management practices.
We make sure that recyclable waste is correctly sorted and collected. This is why, for our headquarters, the Printemps Haussmann and Citadium Caumartin stores (all in Paris), the Group has signed a contract with recycling company PAPREC. The result is in constant growth thanks to the waste sorting awareness campaign conducted with our employees. In partnership with the company Cyclope, collection spots for cigarette butts have also been installed.
Since January 2018, 100% of the Printemps du Goût's food waste has been collected and recycled   through our partner Bionerval’s methanation facility, which employs people in rehabilitation.

Our goal has been to distance ourselves from diesel for product transportation and employee business travel. And since 2018, this has indeed been the case. 
Our logistics have adopted an environmentally friendly approach: between January and June 2018, 35% of our deliveries were carried out by cargo bike. In addition, boutique transfers, headquarters' courier deliveries, and the Printemps Haussmann store customer deliveries are now operated via Coursier.fr.
Additionally, the Printemps Haussmann as well as Citadium Caumartin and Champs Élysées' night deliveries are fully carried out by natural gas vehicles (NGVs). Finally, our stores in the south east of France (Marseille, Toulon, Cagnes and Miramas) have been making deliveries using rail transportation.

Printemps Group is involved in the greening of urban spaces in Paris. Keen to preserve and promote biodiversity in Paris, the Printemps Haussmann, with the help of Citeflor, has installed 30 new Citymur modular planters in front of the Printemps Femme store, to the delight of passers-by. These planted spaces complete Printemps' plan to preserve and develop biodiversity in the city. The restaurant terraces on the 7th, 8th and 9th floors of Printemps Haussmann's Printemps Homme have been entirely revegetated as part of the Paris Rooftop Greening Charter.