Performance benchmarks

We regularly participate in third-party benchmarking exercises conducted by professional CR analysts. These can provide us with a useful measure of progress and provide a helpful mechanism for us to communicate our performance in a very straightforward way to our stakeholders, in particular our colleagues.

The Group’s CR policies and performance have been assessed by a number of independent third parties in the past year:

We are listed in the FTSE4Good Index, meeting all the relevant social and environmental criteria.

We are also listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which selects the top 10% from a universe of 3,000 global companies, based on comprehensive sustainability criteria.

The Group was one of only three retailers shortlisted for the 2007 Retail Week CSR Award.

Following our demerger from GUS plc in 2006, Home Retail received acclaim from BITC for being their ‘Highest New Entrant’ in their Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Indices, achieving an overall position in the Silver band.

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