We made good progress in all three pillars of the CSR strategy in 2024. It became apparent that besides contributing to Kramp’s overall mission, the CSR plan also provides a solid basis for complying with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), explains Erik-Jan Smit, CSR Manager at Kramp.

As part of Kramp’s mission to be an essential partner, we are keen to take responsibility for our impact on the world around us. As a framework for this, our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and ambitions are based on three pillars:
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• Building a futureproof, sustainable and responsible supply chain
• Measuring the carbon footprint
• Empowering society and our people.

“CSR is bigger than Kramp alone,” says Erik-Jan. “Besides helping us take action to limit our own negative effects on people and the planet, in 2024 our three pillars once again inspired us to set things in motion by actively supporting all our supply chain partners in the transition towards a sustainable future.”“Additionally, this approach is aligned with our purpose of ‘Empowering you to move forward’ and is also a good fit with one of our company values: Care,” he comments.

“The three pillars of our CSR strategy not only help us to limit our own negative effects on people and the planet but also inspire us to actively support our partners in the transition towards a sustainable future.”

Erik Jan-Smit

Assessing supply chain risks

In 2024, Kramp made good progress with respect to all three pillars, according to Erik-Jan. “As part of building a responsible supply chain, having launched the Kramp Supplier Code of Conduct in 2023, we took the next step in 2024 by becoming a member of Sedex – the world’s largest data platform for supply chain assessment – and actively encouraging our suppliers to do the same,” he explains.

“This further strengthens our assessment and monitoring of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in the supply chain. It also adds value for our suppliers, who can use the Sedex membership to demonstrate their own ESG performance more broadly,” states the CSR Manager. By the end of 2024, 35 of Kramp’s suppliers had joined the scheme.

Reducing emissions together

For the second pillar of Kramp’s CSR strategy, we are working towards clear targets to reduce the carbon footprint in line with the Euro Green Deal. “In terms of Scope 1 and 2 emissions, in 2024 we met with all Operations Directors to devise a plan for further reducing the energy consumption in our warehouses,” says Erik-Jan. “Our car fleets in Austria and Norway are already electrified. Additionally, we took steps to electrify more of our company car fleets – initially in the Netherlands, with other countries set to follow in the next years.”

“As a first step towards reducing the Scope 3 emissions, we reached out to 150 suppliers to set up carbon reporting procedures. We started a similar dialogue with our carriers by making CO2 reduction a part of the quarterly review meetings. This forms a good foundation for further progress in 2025,” continues Erik-Jan.

Giving back to the community

To empower society and people, the ‘Kramp Impacts’ global community outreach programme supports various initiatives every year. “In 2024, we selected three projects that directly benefit agriculture, forestry, climate change mitigation or the farming community across six different countries. We care about giving back to the community and intend to continue building this programme in 2025 and beyond,” comments Erik-Jan.

Solid basis for CSRD compliance

In 2024, it became apparent that Kramp’s CSR plan forms a solid basis for complying with the requirements of the upcoming Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). “We spent a lot of time on double materiality analysis in both 2023 and 2024. This entailed thinking carefully about our inside-out impact on the world, and the outside-in impact of the world on Kramp to make sure we focus on the most relevant sustainability topics. This will make our plan more resilient, so that we can continue to optimally support all our partners in the future,” explains Erik-Jan.

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a message from our ceo eddie perdok

“The start of the year was dominated by the pandemic, which had a big impact on our way of working. We were lucky to have our warehouse heroes coming in every day to keep our warehouses open and make sure that our customers received their orders. Meanwhile, the majority of our office staff worked mostly from home. So, it had an impact on people, on families and on our way of working. We may have become used to it, but it doesn’t get any easier.”

“The start of the year was dominated by the pandemic, which had a big impact on our way of working. We were lucky to have our warehouse heroes coming in every day to keep our warehouses open and make sure that our customers received their orders. Meanwhile, the majority of our office staff worked mostly from home. So, it had an impact on people, on families and on our way of working. We may have become used to it, but it doesn’t get any easier.”

“The start of the year was dominated by the pandemic, which had a big impact on our way of working. We were lucky to have our warehouse heroes coming in every day to keep our warehouses open and make sure that our customers received their orders. Meanwhile, the majority of our office staff worked mostly from home. So, it had an impact on people, on families and on our way of working. We may have become used to it, but it doesn’t get any easier.”

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Our CEO Eddie Perdok about the year 2024
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2024 in review
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Navigating the market challenges together
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Empowering partners to realise their full business potential
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Strong progress in Varsseveld warehouse transformation project
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Empowering talent to move forward
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Cluster update
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CSR strategy provides solid basis for CSRD compliance
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Meet the supervisory board
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Financial message from our CFO, Roeland Tjebbes
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Key 5-years figures of Kramp Group
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Consolidated finance