Social
We want to inspire our partners to make a positive impact on the value chain. By partnering with key stakeholders, sharing our knowledge and best practice, we aim to encourage a more sustainable industry. We also use our size and reach as one of the leading online retailers in the Nordics to support a number of charities and causes within society that have a positive social impact. As our business grows we aim to invest more in giving back to our local community.
Employees
Boozt believes that the core strength of the company is the diversity of our employees. With more than 60 nationalities, we acknowledge our differences but still share the same goals. Boozt is continuously working towards reducing the potential risk of inequalities across the Group and is actively supporting each employee’s equal rights and opportunities within the organisation through initiatives and policies reflecting our company culture and values.
Engaging & Healthy Work Environment
Boozt is committed to creating a safe work environment that contributes to healthy employees. The HR-policy, guided by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) Discrimination and Harassment policy, covers occupational health and safety, as well as employee wellbeing. The company work environment is systematically reviewed and developed.
During 2022 the HR policy was reviewed and updated in regard to recruitment processes and promoting internal hiring practices. This ensures that Boozt is working with inclusive employment practices across the organisation and are promoting equal distribution of gender in management positions. Boozt has a 45% share of women in midmanagement positions.
As an employer, it is Boozt’s responsibility to foster a work environment that encourages employee engagement and correlates to an agile and healthy organisation. Boozt sends out a monthly employee survey that uses an employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) to benchmark employee engagement with others in the same sector. Boozt is committed to increase the eNPS score to reach Top 10 placement in the consumer industry by 2024 as presented in our Care-For targets.
Empowering customers
Boozt aims to make sustainable choices easy for customers through transparency and technology. As a part of the fashion industry and together with our brands, we strive to guide our customers towards more sustainable consumption.
In 2021, the second-hand platform ReBoozt was launched, promoting a more circular approach to buying fashion and lifestyle products where customers can resell and buy previously purchased items from Boozt.com. The same year, Made With Care was launched on Boozt.com, a section providing customers with fashion and beauty products that meet our sustainability criteria.
MAde with care category
The Made With Care category on Boozt.com was launched in 2021. Throughout our Made With Care landing page, Boozt is aiming for providing as much information about products and responsible production practices as possible.
The Boozt Sustainability Criteria refer to a methodology set internally to define whether a product is fit for our Made With Care category or not. The methodology differs based on the product category. To ensure a reliable, transparent and traceable assortment, Boozt relies intensely on globally recognised certifications, both environmental and social, as well as extensive data collection. To uphold the highest industry standards, a review, update and strengthening of Updates to the Boozt’s Sustainability Criteria are made on a yearly basis, based on stakeholder feedback, new regulations and other macro-level changes.
Made with Care 2023 Criteria
ENGAGING SUPPLIERS
As a third-party retailer working with several suppliers with a global supply chain, Boozt is committed to sharing knowledge and pushing for a higher degree of supply chain transparency as reflected in the partnership with SAC (Sustainable Apparel Coalition) and its related Care-For targets.
SAC Membership
To amplify the efforts within the sustainability area, Boozt has joined the multi-stakeholder alliance the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) in 2020 and collaborated on the Higg Brand and Retail Module (BRM) to push for a higher degree of supply chain transparency. By collecting the data shared Boozt has been able to conduct its first Supply Chain Risk Assessment based on the Higg BRM Module, allowing Boozt to assess, evaluate and monitor the associated socio-ecological risk within the supply chain. The SAC membership shows Boozt’s commitment to shaping a more responsible apparel and footwear industry.
Boozt Supplier Survey
In addition to the SAC joint effort project, Boozt is also ensuring compliance with the Boozt Supplier Code of Conduct via the yearly Boozt Supplier Survey. From 2022, Boozt starts systematically assessing suppliers in terms of their ESG performance through the distribution of a supplier survey. The first part of the survey focuses on the extent of compliance with the Supplier’s Code of Conduct and other governance aspects. More sections with environmental and social questions were added to the survey to help understand where brands are on their sustainability journey and to identify improvement areas where Boozt can support them.
Involving Communities
Knæk Cancer
For the ninth year in a row, Boozt has brought together a strong team to raise awareness for cancer prevention and research through the support of the Knæk Cancer campaign. Thanks to a great team effort and collaboration with Boozt’s ambassadors and Knaek Cancer, Boozt managed to donate more than SEK 1.5 million to the fight against cancer.
5 skoler
We work in close partnership with the charity 5-skoler to support their efforts to help children in areas of war, conflict and disaster. Boozt’s donations during 2022 have gone towards the girls’ empowerment project in Syrian refugee camps, and helping provide school uniforms for the children in the life-education-centres.
Partnering for Change
SAC & HIGG Member
By joining the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), we have taken an important step towards transparency in the apparel, footwear and textile industry.
Our B-Corp journey
Our goal is to become the first B Corp certified e-tailer in the Nordics. This means joining a global community of companies across industries focused on using their business as a force for good, balancing profit and purpose.
Hållbar E-handel
We are members and a part of the advisory board member of Hållbar E-handel (Sustainable e-commerce), an initiative that brings together industry stakeholders in Sweden to set measurable standards for sustainable e-commerce.
UN Signatory
Becoming a signatory of the UN Global Compact in 2018 includes us taking action to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and as well as ways to integrate the Ten Principles to establish a more sustainable business.
