Kering integrates sustainability and innovation in luxury sector strategy

Luxury group Kering is deepening its commitment to sustainable development, strategically integrating it with innovation and value creation. The company views its 2025 sustainability strategy objectives as opportunities to benefit the group, its brands, customers, and society.

The synergy between environmental responsibility and innovation is central to Kering's operations. Established in 2013, the Material Innovation Lab provides the group's Houses with over 3,000 samples of sustainable materials and textiles. Kering also partners with startup accelerators like Fashion for Good - Plug and Play, aiming to foster disruptive innovations and enhance the sustainability of materials and processes.

The Kering Standards guide both the group's internal operations and its suppliers toward achieving set environmental and social targets. These standards define best practices for traceability, social compliance, environmental protection, animal welfare, and chemical usage. They are the result of extensive internal and external collaboration.

The group has also developed the Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) tool to measure and quantify the environmental impacts of its activities. Kering has shared this pioneering methodology with other luxury sector companies and beyond to promote a sustainable economic model. Additionally, Kering, in partnership with LVMH, has launched a charter on working conditions and the well-being of models in the fashion industry.