PARIS, November 21, 2022 – 6:00 p.m. – EKINOPS (Euronext Paris – FR0011466069 – EKI)
a leading provider of telecommunications solutions dedicated to telecommunications operators and businesses, confirms further solid performance in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), illustrated by a significant improvement in its ESG rating following the Gaïa campaign 2022 and obtaining a medal
Silver
from EcoVadis.
At the end of the Gaïa 2022 campaign, Ekinops obtained an overall score of 82/100, for an average score of the Ekinops sector benchmark (66 companies in the Information Technology sector) of 54/100. Ekinops recorded a further significant improvement in its rating, by +10 points compared to 2020 and +30 points compared to 2019.
A subsidiary of the EthiFinance group, Gaïa Research is the benchmark rating agency for the extra-financial rating of companies listed on European markets. Gaïa Research thus evaluates more than 1,200 European companies according to a benchmark of approximately 140 criteria divided into 4 pillars: Governance, Social, Environment, and External Stakeholders (PPE). On all of these criteria, Ekinops’ ratings have improved compared to the previous year and are all above the sector benchmark:
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Governance: 77/100
(vs. 66/100 in 2021 and 57/100 average score of the sector benchmark) -
Social: 81/100
(vs. 74/100 in 2021 and 52/100 average score for the sector benchmark) -
Environment: 92/100
(vs. 70/100 in 2021 and 50/100 average score of the sector benchmark) -
EPP: 88/100
(vs. 85/100 in 2021 and 61/100 average score for the sector benchmark)
In addition, Ekinops’ CSR policy was also rewarded by obtaining the silver medal ”
Silver
from EcoVadis with a score of 63/100 for the year 2021/2022, above the benchmark average, placing the company in the top 15 of companies assessed in its sector.
EcoVadis is an independent platform on which companies around the world can assess the sustainability performance of their suppliers. For this assessment, EcoVadis bases itself on international CSR standards, such as the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the ISO standard. 26,000. The concrete assessment covers 21 criteria, grouped into 4 themes: environment, labor & human rights, ethics and responsible purchasing.
A constantly improving ESG strategy
These distinctions are the concrete result of the actions implemented by the group on priority themes, articulated around 3 strategic axes:
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Be a reference employer
: to ensure good working conditions for its employees, to preserve their well-being and their health through concrete actions in favor of diversity and inclusion, and to retain them through a policy of mobility and attractive remuneration. -
Be a responsible company towards third parties
: Ekinops has implemented responsible systems and practices. -
Limit the environmental impact of its activities
: reduce the carbon footprint during all phases of the product life cycle through concrete actions.
As a reminder, in order to strengthen its CSR policy, Ekinops created and set up a CSR committee in March 2022, whose mission is to advise the company and issue recommendations in terms of CSR, and will ensure that it anticipates the challenges and opportunities and identifies the extra-financial risks associated with its activity to achieve sustainable and responsible value creation.
Didier Brédy, Chairman and CEO of Ekinops declares:
“CSR issues are at the heart of Ekinops’ development strategy and we continue to invest to ensure sustainable growth while facing the challenges of creating sustainable value. These distinctions won from two benchmark CSR rating agencies on the market represent real recognition of our efforts to have a positive impact on society. Today, we are determined to continue our efforts to improve ourselves continuously through responsible actions to which all of our employees adhere. »
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Contact EKINOPS Didier Bredy Chairman and CEO [email protected] |
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About Ekinops Ekinops is a provider of open, reliable and innovative network connectivity solutions for service providers (telecom operators and enterprises) around the world. Ekinops solutions, designed with high value-added software, enable the rapid and flexible deployment of new optical, broadband and high-speed transport services, as well as business services, in particular through network virtualization. The portfolio of solutions and services is made up of three perfectly complementary brands: • Ekinops 360, for the needs of metropolitan, regional and long distance optical transport networks, based on two technologies: WDM for a simple, compact and integrated architecture; OTN for complex multi-vendor environments; • OneAccess, to offer a wide choice of deployment options, physical and virtualized, for voice and data routing; • Compose to define networks by software through a variety of management tools and services, including the scalable SD-WAN Xpress solution and Edge-to-Cloud solutions from SixSq. As service providers adopt SDN deployment models ( Software Defined Networking ) and NFV ( Network Functions Virtualization ), Ekinops solutions allow them to migrate, transparently, to open and virtualized architectures. Ekinops has a global organization and operates on four continents. Ekinops is listed on Euronext in Paris. Label: Ekinops ISIN Code: FR0011466069 Mnemonic code: EKI Number of shares making up the share capital: 26,266,276 More information on www.ekinops.com |
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