Samsonite

Current Sustainability Goals

Ongoing goals

• Estimate, track and support actions to reduce our Scope 3 emissions.
• Continuously improve product sustainability by applying circular economy principles and design innovation while minimizing carbon emissions and waste – with a focus on durability, materials, repair, and end of life.
• Increase the use of materials with sustainable credentials in our products and packaging to lessen our impact on the environment. 
• To expand our existing social compliance program to identify, mitigate and remediate possible negative human rights impacts of the business. 

2025 goal

• Reduce the carbon intensity of operations by 15% (2017 baseline).
• Power operations with 100% renewable electricity and achieve carbon neutrality for operations.

2030 goal

• Achieve gender balance by ensuring that women represent at least 45% of the members of our management team at the director level and above. We will also seek to maintain gender balance across our entire workforce.
  

Highlights

• Decreased absolute GHG emissions from operations by 33% (compared to 2017); 37% when factoring in offsets from tree plantings.
• Excerpt from report: "While some of this reduction was due to a decline in internal production and sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant portion of this reduction was also driven by our increased use of renewable electricity and energy efficiency project implementations. This is reflected in our carbon intensity: GHG emissions normalized by revenue decreased by 19% from 2017 (23% when factoring in offsets).
• Increased renewable electricity use to 25%, more than doubling our rate in 2021 (21% from purchased renewable electricity and 4% from on-site solar generation).
• Improved energy efficiency by 20% against a 2014 baseline.
• Measured Scope 3 (indirect) GHG emissions for the first time, estimating our 2021 emissions for all applicable Scope 3 categories as defined by the GHG Protocol. 
• Conducted a climate risks and opportunities assessment aligned with TCFD* guidance
• Updated and refined our sustainable product approach based on circular economy principles.
• Raised the share of sales from products with recycled materials to over 23%; three of our best selling collections incorporate at least 40% recycled materials by weight.
• Diverted the equivalent of approximately 100 million 500ml (20g) plastic bottles from landfill through our use of rPET. This total represents a sharp increase over previous years (we estimated slightly more than 100 million bottles cumulatively from 2018 to 2021).
• 36% of our employees at the director level and above were women. Across our entire workforce, women represent 50% of our employees. 
• Expectations for 2023:
• We expect to switch at least one third of US facilities to 100% renewable electricity via renewable power programs. 
• We will be making energy efficiency upgrades including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning updates and LED retrofits at several facilities. 
• We will build on our Scope 3 assessment and pilot projects with suppliers to measure emissions, refine calculations, assess opportunities to reduce our Scope 3 footprint, and develop a high-level action plan.
• We are currently assessing the feasibility of setting a science-based target (SBT) for Scope 3. At a minimum, we intend to set an updated, science-aligned target for Scope 1 and 2 in 2023.

2023

Joined the CEF member network in December 2023!