Corporate Knights has ranked Kering as the second most sustainable company across all industries in the world and the first in luxury and fashion. To achieve its leadership position, Kering was assessed against 21 key performance indicators covering resource management, employee management, financial management, clean revenue and supplier performance.
Kering, a luxury group and manages the development of a series of renowned houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry and watches. Among these are Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen as well as Kering Eyewear. By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Kering enables its houses to set new limits in terms of their creative expression while crafting tomorrow's luxury in a sustainable and responsible way.
The Corporate Knights’ Global 100 rating index is considered one of the leading benchmarks for corporate sustainability world-wide and reflects the best performing businesses in relation to long term economic, environmental and social criteria. The index is a ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations and is recognized as the joint best index in the world, for its relevance, insight, trustworthiness and convincing methodology. Rigorously analyzed against 21 key performance indicators, those corporations selected for inclusion represent the top two per cent in the world on sustainability performance.
