Our strategy's evolution hinges significantly on international political goals and frameworks like the SDGs - the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (learn more); the Paris Climate Agreement, and the concept of planetary boundaries (read more). These serve as our compass, guiding us toward the most pertinent issues for designing optimal solutions for humanity and our environment.
Furthermore, we embrace a variety of sustainability standards and management systems, including GRI, EMAS, FWF, GWÖ, and soon ESRS. These frameworks delineate requirements, themes, key metrics, and objectives, galvanizing us to contribute to the multifaceted global challenges and strive for continuous enhancement. Through audits and disclosure mandates, we receive invaluable insights from impartial third parties, fostering our ongoing development.
This is our conviction: we will continue to work on taking holistic responsibility and reducing our environmental footprint.
Our vision is:
“Improving the quality of life with sustainable outdoor products and future oriented business strategies.”
You can find out more about VAUDE's sustainability strategy here.
Our strategic system consists of Vision, Mission, and strategic priorities. From these, we derive our specific goals and actions:
- Vision: The corporate vision expresses VAUDE's desirable future outlook, serving as a compass and source of motivation for employees. Learn more
- Mission: The mission describes the company's purpose and its contribution to achieving the vision. It succinctly articulates why VAUDE exists and the positive impact it makes for customers and society. Learn more
- Nine Strategic Priorities: These define the long-term strategic direction internally and externally, providing guidance. Learn more
Derived from the Vision, Mission, and Strategic Priorities, the corporate goals describe what VAUDE aims to achieve in the medium term.
From the corporate goals, departmental, team, and employee goals are derived. This means that all employees pursue and implement specific sustainability goals within their areas of responsibility.
The management annually reviews the company strategy in a combined top-down and bottom-up process and continuously develops it. The results of the materiality analysis also feed into this strategy development process.
Our goals are defined with specific qualitative and quantitative target values and time horizons. We regularly assess the extent to which we have achieved our goals or analyze any difficulties to derive short-term necessary measures if needed. These results form the basis on which we continue to develop and improve.
