The people pillar aims to raise awareness for the current challenges that the planet is facing. Therefore, we inspire our teams and our consumers to adopt sustainable behaviours - be it at work, in their daily lives or in their garden.
We encourage behavioral changes among our teams to make our Division even more diverse, with a highly engaged and healthy workforce.
We train all our employees to inspire individual actions to tackle sustainability challenges. We empower our consumers to establish sustainable gardening habits with our innovative product solutions, our inspirational advice and service offers.
We have long-standing involvements in social affairs as part of our social responsibility.

Internal awareness raising for our entire workforce on the topic of sustainability

Our employee-wide sustainability e-learning program is the flagship course in our newly launched Global Sustainability Learning Journey. It is designed to engage all our employees and trigger conversations on the actions each individual can take to tackle climate change and other sustainability challenges.

We define diversity in the broadest sense, including age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability and overall life experiences. Importantly, it also includes diversity of thought. Three objectives help us shape a diverse and inclusive organisation:

• Diversity in our teams: By measuring overall diversity in our teams and gender balance in leadership.
• Inclusive leadership and culture: By surveying employee perceptions of diversity and inclusion every year and measuring the share of employees who have received training.
• External validation: We measure performance annually using the Bloomberg GEI (Gender Equality Index) and commit to a year-on-year increase of our D&I score.

Building the market for sustainable solutions and encouraging consumers to adopt sustainable options

At GARDENA, we believe that small actions can lead to big changes. Our range of gardening tools is designed with sustainability in mind. We use materials, such as recycled plastics and sustainable wood to reduce our environmental impact. Our products are also built to last, meaning that you can rely on them for many gardening seasons to come. But it's not just about the products – we believe that by sharing our knowledge in green gardening practices we can help our customers make a real difference in their own green spaces.

Building partnerships to support our people goals 

Just as much as with environmental causes, we are aware of our social responsibilities and have long-standing involvements in social affairs.