Leroy Merlin, with its parent company Adeo, a giant in the sale of DIY items and home improvements, has launched an indicator, the “Home Index”, to assess the environmental and social impact of some of the products it sells, announced the the night from Monday to Tuesday.
He explains that he has been working with Adeo for three years on this indicator, originally intended to help teams “better manage” the constitution of the group’s commercial offer, “with 26 criteria in 6 large categories that are both environmental and social”. evaluating the conditions of production, packaging, water or energy consumption, useful life and repairability of the products.
35,000 products
In detail, this “Home Index” evaluates “all Adeo’s own brands marketed in Leroy Merlin”, that is, “almost 35,000 products” scored from A to E, the brand specifies in a press release according to which, to date, “6% of the products evaluated obtain an A score”, 32% B, 49% C and 13% D.
No product has an E rating, which for Ms. Simunic reflects that her teams did not wait for this indicator to improve Leroy Merlin’s offer, which aims for a business volume of 9.8 billion euros in 2022 in France, where it employs 30,000 people.
This weight, as well as the international presence of Leroy Merlin and the other brands of the Adeo group (Weldom or Bricoman), gives the group hope for a generalization of this “Home Index”. “85 manufacturers are preparing to use it to evaluate their products” and “exchanges with other brands are also taking place,” according to Leroy Merlin.
“One sign is not more favorable than another because we rely on objective criteria”, says Ms. Simunic. According to her, the rest of the professionals are more into the idea of ”asking themselves how to go faster together than taking” independent steps that “would mean an additional workload for our suppliers”, which are sometimes the same.
Source: BFM TV
