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Sustainable development
Hennessy drew up its second environmental policy in 2004
(the first one dates from 1997). For the first year, its La Groie
distillery was also certified.
On February 12, 2004, Krug and Veuve Clicquot officially obtai-
ned ISO 14001 certification, at all their champagne sites, for
all the stages of champagne production, from cultivation of the
vine to product shipment, and including packaging design and
development.
Louis Vuitton Malletier has also pursued ISO 14000 certifica-
tion. It successfully completed the first follow-up audit of a produc-
tion site, which was certified in late 2004. It has developed a
charter; established an action plan to raise employee awareness
at the logistics platform, developed ongoing environmental indi-
cators, which have now been extended to all the activities of the
company.
NUMEROUS INITIATIVES TO INCREASE
EMPLOYEE AWARENESS
In 2004, 9,800 hours of environmental sensitivity training
were provided by the companies in the Group, for approxima-
tely 4,000 employees. This represented a 16% increase in the
number of hours over 2003.
There was a particular emphasis on environmental sensitiza-
tion and training initiatives in the Wines and Spirits sector, which
accounted for 71% of the sensitization and training hours:
●More than 3,300 hours were devoted to this issue at Moët
& Chandon and all its wine-producing sites, and more than
1,800 hours at Moët Hennessy Wine Estates (the Group’s wine
companies outside France).
●At Veuve Clicquot, the 2004 harvest was an opportunity to
make all grape pickers and seasonal staff, i.e. more than a
thousand people, more sensitive to an environmental approach.
Selective sorting and controlling water and energy consump-
tion were emphasized.
●Krug provided training to all new arrivals and some of the
service providers working on site.
At Parfums Givenchy, over 500 hours were devoted to training
in energy savings and waste sorting for the 600 production
site employees. Sales staffs receive a practical and theoretical
training that includes an environmental component.
In addition to these initiatives, the Group companies continue
to distribute written information regarding the environment:
●the in-house magazine “LVMH Magazine” has a section titled
“LVMH – a good Corporate Citizen”, which systematically reports
on information about the environment in the Group;
●following the example of Hennessy, Moët & Chandon and
Veuve Clicquot, Louis Vuitton has distributed a “green guide” to
all employees at its corporate offices in Paris;
●Parfums Givenchy provided a “sustainable development
booklet” to all its employees;
●Hennessy includes an educational section on the environ-
ment in each issue of its in-house newspaper;