Report reinforces Decathlon’s commitments on sustainability
Sports clothing, footwear and equipment manufacturing and retail group Decathlon has published a report on its environmental performance in 2023.
Highlights include an overall reduction of 11.7% in the group’s carbon emissions compared to 2021. Decathlon also said 38.8% of its revenues in 2023 (which reached €15.6 billion in total) came from products that merited the label ‘eco-design’. This compares to 23% of revenues in 2022.
Last year, 48.1% of the electricity consumed across Decathlon’s factories, stores and offices came from renewable resources, up from 44% in 2022.
What it called its ‘circular business’, which includes repairs, product hire and sales of second-hand products, accounted for a little under 2.3% of the total but this, too, represented an increase compared to the 2022 figure, which was just over 1.8%.
Chief executive, Barbara Martin Coppola, commented: “We want Decathlon to be a driving force for change on environmental impact, and to become a model for a sustainable future.”
