MAY/2025
ESG ACTION PLAN UPDATE 2024/25ESG IS CORE TO THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS
PURPOSE
VISION BEING FIRST CHOICE FOR ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS: OUR PEOPLE, CUSTOMERS, SUPPLIERS, COMMUNITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS
VALUES
OUR 2030 ESG ACTION PLAN
SOCIAL | ||
EMPOWERING OUR PEOPLE Creating an inclusive and engaging environment where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop and thrive. | CHAMPIONING YOUTH & COMMUNITIES Inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators and supporting our communities worldwide to improve people's lives and create a more sustainable world. | |
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ADVANCING SUSTAINABILITY
Developing sustainable operations and product and service solutions for our customers and suppliers.
ENVIRONMENT
DOING BUSINESS RESPONSIBLY
Ensuring the highest ethical and environmental standards throughout our business and global value chain.
GOVERNANCE
Platinum EcoVadis medal and CDP A-list
CUSTOMERS
ESG is an increasing differentiator with higher-value customers, supported by our leading ESG ratings and our Better World product range, helping them make greener product choices they can trust
AND A KEY ENABLER OF OUR STRATEGY
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Delivering a greener distribution service (DCs, packaging and logistics) to provide a better service to our customers and reduce our environmental impacts
Operational excellence
Logistics emissions intensity cut by 26% since 2019/20; 94% of packaging is recyclable; 93% of group electricity is from renewable sources
Leverage efficient physical, digital and process infrastructure sustainably
Customers
Target high lifetime value customers who buy a broad mix of industrial MRO products in small volumes
Over 132 suppliers contribute 30k Better World products; 55% by spend are EcoVadis rated, 38% have science-based carbon targets to reduce CO2
PRODUCTS AND SUPPLIERS
Providing suppliers with an industry-leading framework to advance sustainable product development and ESG action, along with exciting go-to-market opportunities to promote their sustainable product innovations
Products and suppliers
Focus on technically led and specialist ranges within a broad product offer, with a focus on A&C and electrification
Experience
30k products across 345 product families, digitally tagged on RS websites in 30 countries
EXPERIENCE
Enabling customers to select more sustainable and responsible product choices they can trust: clear, credible and verified product sustainability claims on RS websites with a human touch from our highly engaged, customer focused RS team
Strengthen and tailor our digitally enabled, seamless customer experience across all interactions with us
Solutions
Butternut Box saved £3Ok+ pa while eliminating product & logistics waste
SOLUTIONS
Providing value-added procurement and maintenance solutions (like RS ControlStock®) to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce waste through automated inventory management
Scale solutions that pull through product and drive customer loyalty
ESG SUPPORTS OUR VISION TO BE FIRST CHOICE WITH ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS
FOR OUR CUSTOMERS
Developing sustainable products and service solutions and helping to address skills gaps with future engineers and technologists
FOR OUR PEOPLE
Creating a high performance, inclusive and engaging culture
Our collaboration with RS has resulted in a significant improvement in both safety and operational efficiency."
Specialist Engineer
FOR OUR SUPPLIERS
Guidance to advance product sustainability and positioning with customers, while raising ESG standards across our supply chain
FOR OUR SHAREHOLDERS
Delivering consistent and sustainable economic returns that benefit people, planet and profit
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
Improving lives, inspiring future generations and supporting a more sustainable world
We're proud to be part of a company that takes sustainability seriously. But we know that real change takes more than just one company. It's about all of us, working together and taking responsibility for the world we'll pass on to future generations.''
Chair of Bloomers - RS Group
Employee resource group for young people
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STRONG PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR ACROSS OUR ESG ACTION PLAN
OUR 2030 ESG ACTION PLAN - GLOBAL GOALS PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS 2024/25
GOVERNANCE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
ADVANCING SUSTAINABILITY
Developing sustainable operations and product and service solutions for our customers and suppliers.
EMPOWERING OUR PEOPLE
Creating an inclusive and engaging environment where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop and thrive.
CHAMPIONING YOUTH & COMMUNITIES
Inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators and supporting our communities worldwide to improve people's lives and create a more sustainable world.
DOING BUSINESS RESPONSIBLY
Ensuring the highest ethical and environmental standards throughout our business and global value chain.
64%
reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2019/201
72
employee engagement score down from 75 in 2023/24
913kyoung engineers and innovators supported since 2020/21
48%
of employees had their annual incentive aligned to carbon reduction targets
82%
of our packaging has
>50% recycled content, an increase of 16% pts since 2023/242
37%
of our senior leaders are women and 10% are ethnically diverse
£963Kraised to support The Washing Machine Project to improve lives since 2020/21
38%
of suppliers by spend have set science-based targets
26%
reduction in Scope 3 transport emissions intensity since 2019/203
36%
reduction in our all accident frequency rate4 since 2019/20
30%of our employees volunteered
to support their local communities in the last two years
75%
of RS PRO suppliers are
Sedex members
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1. Scope 1 and 2 emissions have been updated to reflect improvements to our reporting methodologies with more detail provided in our basis of reporting. Progress includes emissions from acquisitions within all reporting years from 2019/20 to 2024/25. 2. Packaging recycled content metric updated to exclude wood from pallets.
3. Tonnes of CO2e due to Scope 3 transport emissions per tonne of product sold. 4. Per 200,000 hours worked.