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All Fendi sites in Italy are certified ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 (for their occupational health and safety management system). Belvedere is also certified OHSAS 18001, to which it added ISO 50001 certification for its energy manage- ment systems. The Maisons operating in the champagne-
cognac-vodka market are certified ISO 22000 for food safety management. Implemented as part of the LIFE Program, the
environmental certification policy was the catalyst for consid- erable progress and helped to set new benchmarks. Beyond
their role as a place of work for LVMH employees, the sites
reflect the Group s environmental awareness and ambition.
EXCEPTIONAL SITES
In 2019, the Group opened a number of new important sites,
such as Celine s manufacturing facility in central Chianti, Italy,
to expand its production capacity. The manufacturing facility
was built and fitted to comply with LEED® and HQE® stan- dards, using the most environmentally friendly materials and
minimizing water and energy consumption. The Group also
inaugurated other impressive sites in 2019. In France, the new
Louis Vuitton leather goods workshop in Beaulieu-sur-Layon
is certified very good by BREEAM®, and Kosmo, the new headquarters of Christian Dior Parfums in Neuilly-sur Seine, has been designed to obtain BREEAM RFO certification for the quality of its fixtures and fittings. In Ireland, Bvlgari s Horizon center is certified Gold by LEED®. Royal Van Lent
identified environmental protection as a priority for the
construction of its new naval yard in Amsterdam.
GREATER USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
From just 1% in 2013, the proportion of renewable energy in the LVMH energy mix had grown to over 36% in 2019. Sephora has actively contributed to this change. Since fall 2019, the
Maison s headquarters in San Francisco, its distribution centers
and all its US stores are fully powered by green electricity.
LVMH also makes progress through the framework agree-
ments it signs with its suppliers to power a number of its sites
in France and Italy using renewable energy. Other framework
agreements are being negotiated for sites in Spain and the
US. In 2019, Bvlgari installed a biomass-fired heating system at its Saignelégier workshop in Switzerland, while Celine and
Loro Piana use solar panels. In Beauvais, northern France,
LVMH Fragrance Brands installed a heat exchanger system
to recover heat released by the compressors and preheat
softened water that powers the steam heating system.
The increased use of renewable energy falls under the
comprehensive energy performance policy. In 2019, Louis
Vuitton installed a remote operation system in nearly 1,000
items of IT equipment (PCs at headquarters and in stores as
well as meeting screens), which makes it possible to auto-
matically turn off machines that remain unused for a certain
amount of time. Elsewhere, Christian Dior Parfums installed an advanced temperature management system that remotely
controls equipment according to a detailed energy consump-
tion grid. Furthermore, last year, TAG Heuer appointed an energy manager who is tasked with overseeing the energy
consumption across all sites.
The second focus to reduce CO2 emissions involves upgrading industrial and administrative sites. By the end of 2019, 60% of the Group s sites were ISO 14001 certified, including 71% of its industrial sites.
Innovation to enhance sites
