toom Baumarkt

From the jury's assessment

toom's sustainability strategy is organised along four sustainability pillars: green products; energy, climate and the environment; employees; and social commitment. Together these pillars form a sustainability initiative worthy of recognition. By green products, toom means genuinely sustainable products. Intensive scrutiny counteracts greenwashing and increases credibility as the decisive basis for communication. Own-brand products are also verified by an external advisory board and are intended to offer sustainable added value for the challenges of their product group. Through the resource-conserving, climate-friendly operation of its stores, toom also lives up to the second sustainability pillar and is reducing absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 30 % by 2030 in order to become climate-neutral by 2040. But support for employees and social commitment – for example in the form of support for homeless people or the inclusion of people with disabilities – are also part of a sustainable corporate policy for toom.