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CORPORATE<br />
RESPONSIBILITY REPORT 2011<br />
ary Protocol. The report covers all of <strong>Kesko</strong>'s<br />
operations:<br />
■ Most economic responsibility indicators<br />
have been derived from the consolidated<br />
financial statements, the preparation<br />
and representation of which are<br />
governed by the IFRS standards.<br />
■ The environmental indicators cover the<br />
parent company <strong>Kesko</strong> Corporation's<br />
and its subsidiaries' most significant<br />
environmental impacts in all the countries<br />
in which they operate.<br />
■ The HR indicators cover the parent company<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong> Corporation's and its subsidiaries'<br />
personnel in all the countries<br />
in which they operate. Around three<br />
quarters of the <strong>Kesko</strong> Group's employees<br />
work in retail stores. The report does<br />
not cover the personnel employed by<br />
retailer entrepreneurs, unless separately<br />
stated in the text.<br />
Any deviations and limitations in the<br />
boundary are reported in connection with<br />
the indicators in question. If changes have<br />
taken place in the indicators, their scope,<br />
boundary or measurement methods as<br />
reported previously, related information<br />
is given in connection with the indicators.<br />
Indicator reporting does not cover contractors<br />
or suppliers of goods and services,<br />
unless stated otherwise.<br />
INFORMATION ON K-RETAILERS<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong>'s division parent companies and<br />
chains act in close cooperation with retailer<br />
entrepreneurs and other partners. The<br />
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<strong>Kesko</strong>'s twelfth<br />
Corporate<br />
Responsibility<br />
Report provides<br />
information on<br />
our responsibility<br />
work and its<br />
results.<br />
"<br />
report presents information on K-stores<br />
(e.g. energy monitoring) when it is integrally<br />
related to <strong>Kesko</strong>’s reporting and complements<br />
the overall picture of the relations of<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong> and K-retailers with society and other<br />
stakeholder groups. In such cases, the report<br />
refers to them as 'the K-Group'.<br />
REPORT'S STAKEHOLDERS<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong>'s reporting is comprehensive, and<br />
many investors and institutions making<br />
sustainability assessments use the report<br />
as their source of information when assessing<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong>'s performance in various areas of<br />
responsibility.<br />
The most important target groups of the<br />
report include shareholders, investors, analysts,<br />
<strong>Kesko</strong> personnel and the media.<br />
When drawing up the report, we have<br />
also wanted to take into account <strong>Kesko</strong>'s<br />
other important stakeholders: customers,<br />
suppliers of goods and services, as well<br />
as non-governmental and environmental<br />
organisations. With the help of the theme<br />
section and its case examples, we give our<br />
customers and cooperation partners practical<br />
information about <strong>Kesko</strong>'s responsible<br />
operations.<br />
GLOBAL COMPACT REPORTING<br />
The report describes <strong>Kesko</strong>'s progress on<br />
the 10 principles of the Global Compact<br />
initiative. Global Compact accepts the use<br />
of the indicators in the GRI G3 Guidelines<br />
as appropriated for this purpose. The GRI<br />
index on pages 60–64 shows which indicators<br />
have been used to evaluate performance<br />
CONTENTs OF THE REPORT<br />
in fulfilling the principles of human rights,<br />
labour standards, the environment and anticorruption.<br />
ASSURANCE OF THE REPORT<br />
This report has been published in print in<br />
Finnish and English, and the electronic<br />
<strong>version</strong>s can be read at www.kesko.fi/<br />
responsibility. The report contents are not<br />
updated after the assurance.<br />
An independent third party has provided<br />
assurance on the Finnish language report<br />
and reviewed the correspondence of the<br />
English language <strong>version</strong>. The assurance for<br />
the 2011 report was carried out by <strong>Kesko</strong>'s<br />
auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, whose<br />
assurance report is available on pages 92–93.<br />
An independent assurance report has<br />
been provided for <strong>Kesko</strong>'s report since 2002.<br />
This report covers the progress and results<br />
of responsibility actions in 2011 with some<br />
information for January–March 2012. The<br />
2010 report was published in May 2011 and<br />
the 2012 report will be published in spring<br />
2013.<br />
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