Charlois CSR Report 2023-2024

All our group’s activities and businesses are linked to forests, nature and, more broadly, the environment. We therefore have responsibilities and duties.

We must be AWARE that everything begins with the forest, and that the reason for the work of each one of us is to develop the potential of the exceptional woods it produces, to serve our customers.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility approach is part of this objective, part of this ideal. The word that must capture our attention, your attention, in this acronym is “RESPONSIBLE”. For we each have our role to play, our contribution to bring.

Since 2019, we have made strong commitments in this area, we have assigned ourselves targets and given ourselves the means to achieve them by giving sense to our activities. We are all involved.

To structure and implement our approach, a CSR department was created in 2022. Following an audit of all the group’s sites and companies, its mission is to implement our commitment strategy and bring it to life with each of our stakeholders, and with our internal CSR ambassadors, present on each of our sites, where everyone’s skills are put to good use in our approach.

We have defined our commitments based on the specific characteristics of our group, our stakeholders and the social, economic and environmental aspects around us. These are the three pillars of our responsible commitments:

I. INHERITING & PASSING ON A LEGACY

II. VALUE & SECURE A PRECIOUS RESOURCE

III. CONTROLLING & IMPROVING OUR IMPACT

In 2022 and 2023, we structured our corporate governance and created an executive board to consolidate and pursue group development.

In 2023, the acquisitions of Oakwood Cooperage in Scotland and Kelvin Cooperage in the United States confirm our determination to expand our presence in the cooperage market for bourbon and whisky, and to increase the volume of used oak barrels repaired, in order to extend their life cycle.

In our development, and in particular our external growth, we pay close attention to the shared values of the brands we integrate. We ensure they share our common goals.

In this new report, you will find all our commitments and the objectives we have set ourselves for the coming years.

Charlois’ CSR report can be consulted on our website, under Publications.

This CSR report provides an overview of CHARLOIS & CIE and its activities, and presents the group’s ambitions in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility. This report covers the period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.