ENVIRONMENT & NATURE

Every type of consumption more or less greatly impacts the environment. This also happens at Jack Wolfskin, both in production and in the sale of products.

However, Jack Wolfskin has declared that keeping this impact as low as possible – within the limits of what is feasible – is a corporate objective.

Global warming, with all its dramatic repercussions, is a fact and must lead us to modify our behaviour not only in the private sphere but also in industry.We would like to show the way forward by setting a good example.

To help achieve this, we have developed a comprehensive catalogue of measures designed to help us significantly reduce our impact on the environment:

• Various building projects at the company headquarters in Idstein as well as construction of a new logistics centre in Neu Wulmstorf have already been realised.
   
• Installation of a photovoltaic system on the roof to facilitate environmentally friendly electricity production was completed both in Idstein and in Neu Wulmstorf.
   
• The industrial water for the company’s own sports hall will be heated by a solar system.
   
• The light sources in all buildings used by the company have been replaced with energy-saving bulbs.
   
• The power supply in the company headquarters in Idstein was switched over to green energy on 1 April 2008 by GREENPEACE ENERGY. This represents an annual saving of around 275 t CO₂ per year.