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CEO
STATEMENT
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and sustainability have
for long been important to New Wave Group. Since 2012 we
have included a section about environment and ethics in our
Annual Report, but this is the first time we have developed a
more comprehensive Sustainability Report. Therefore, 2017
can be seen as a year of education on how the report should be
designed and what to include. The Sustainability Report gives
us the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments so far
– but also reflect on how we can improve.
The Group’s structure with a decentralized organization poses a challenge in measurability and to globally accumulate data regarding
sustainability issues. The ambition is to add more sustainability-related goals as we learn more and develop our sustainability work.
Over the years, we have built a good foundation for how we work with sustainability on Group level. However, we have a need to further
spread and establish this work, both among customers and subsidiaries. Hence, communication and education will be essential to take
the next steps.
A company can only be long-term successful if its operations at the same time is sustainable. We want to be a profitable company not
only today, but also in the future. Thus, it is a natural part of our long-term thinking to adapt business solutions which will integrate
financial responsibility with social and environmental responsibility.
New Wave Group has the possibility to contribute and make a difference through our global operations. I’m proud of that. We always
strive to find better and smarter solutions to the challenges we face. However, sustainability is a progressive target – and the journey of
New Wave Group has in that perspective only just begun.
TORSTEN JANSSON
CEO
“The company engine runs on growth, but with
sustainability as its navigator”
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