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RATTI GROUP | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021

Stakeholders and the process of The heads of the various corporate functions
involvement expressed a precise evaluation of the influence
Ratti’s long-term strategies and action plans of stakeholders on Ratti’s activities and
are also defined with the goal of meeting the stakeholders’ interest in Ratti. Stakeholders were
expectations of the various stakeholders, with considered to be important if they had been
whom Ratti launched a number of initiatives evaluated as above average for both dimensions
involving debate and dialogue in 2021. (influence/interest).

The Group’s key stakeholders were identified Table 11 shows:
by the heads of the various corporate functions - the principal categories of stakeholder;
during the drafting of the Sustainability - the themes felt to be priorities;
Report containing the DNF in 2017 and were - the activities involving listening, dialogue
reconfirmed during the 2020 process of involving and consultation held during the year.
stakeholders.
Involving the main stakeholders has allowed the
Ratti Group to establish a productive dialogue as
well as relationships involving solid cooperation,
in which no critical issues are reported.
INVOLVING THE MAIN STAKEHOLDERS
HAS ALLOWED THE RATTI GROUP TO The European Taxonomy
ESTABLISH A PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE In addition to the provisions of Legislative
AS WELL AS RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING Decree 254/2016, the Ratti Group has also taken
SOLID COOPERATION, IN WHICH NO into consideration the European Taxonomy, as
CRITICAL ISSUES ARE REPORTED.
set out in Regulation (EU) 2020/852 and which
came into force on 12 July 2020, in order to
define eco-sustainable activities.

The Taxonomy is an important piece of
legislation which makes it possible to increase
sustainable investment and, therefore,
implement the European Green Deal. It applies

TABLE 11 – LIST OF THE MAIN DIALOGUE INITIATIVES WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND THE KEY TOPICS DISCUSSED

Stakeholder Key topics and critical issues Principal initiatives for dialogue
Industrial shareholder
(Marzotto Group) Partnerships Joint working groups

Internal communication via email, noticeboards, welcome manual
Employees and partners Partnerships
for new-hires and the company intranet.
Competitors Innovation of processes in terms of sustainability Participation in regional round table meetings and trade associations

Suppliers Collaborative relationships focusing on the sustainability Sales meetings and company visits; audits in accordance with SA8000;
of the process and the product; Ratti noted a critical issue requests to fill in questionnaires; joint projects on topics specifically linked to
regarding suppliers’ timely completion of self-assessment sustainability.
questionnaires, as well as the transmission of the
documentation concerning the various certifications.

Customers Monitoring of the supply chain and partnerships Sharing and providing information on Ratti’s various sustainability
and licensors activities through newsletters and social channels; presenting the Group’s
sustainable activities through direct meetings with customers or in video
conferences, supported in 2021 by a programme of specific appointments;
joint participation in workshops and round tables; presenting the product’s
sustainable offer through the collections, the Tessuteca and sustainable
textiles.

Schools Cooperation on innovation processes Work-school alternation programmes; training programmes with possible
and universities recruitment by Ratti at the end of the process.

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