About the statement

The Statement refers to the reporting year of 1 January to 31 December 2023. Grupa KĘTY S.A. has been preparing non-financial information since 2016, and reporting it on annual basis. The Statement for 2022 was published in March 2023.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Act on Accounting of 29 September 1994, the ‘Non-financial Information Statement’ comprises information and consolidated non-financial data of the Capital Group of Grupa KĘTY S.A., and its parent Grupa KĘTY S.A. In the Statement we present our approach and description of policies applied in reference to social, employment, natural environment and respect for human rights issues, as well as corruption prevention, the business model, and description of major risks related to the operations of the Capital Group of Grupa KĘTY S.A., and also due diligence procedures. We have adjusted the scope of the Statement to the key issues raised by the stakeholders, as well as the analysis of impact and importance carried out on the occasion of creating the ESG 2021-2025 strategy.

Quantitative indicators are presented as aggregated for the Capital Group and Grupa KĘTY S.A., broken down into locations, i.e. Poland (where most of the production plants are located) and other locations (foreign companies). Data is presented in comparison with the preceding reporting period. An exception has been applied to greenhouse gas emissions, for which emissions in the last three years (2021-2023) and the base year 2016 have been presented in order to enable deeper change analysis.

The Company has not made any adjustments to the information presented in the previous Statement.

The Statement was prepared based on the selected GRI Standards.

The Statement was drawn up in collaboration with the internal project team, which featured many employees responsible for the particular aspects discussed in the report, including HR, environmental protection, investor relations, CSR, sales, compliance and risk management, production, and procurement. The figures and qualitative data originate from the Company internal systems. The Statement has not been audited by an independent auditor.