Introduction

Introduction

Sustainability
in action

Each business case begins where strategy meets daily operations. Electric trucks reshaping Hager’s delivery flows show how sustainability and performance converge.
Each business case begins where strategy meets daily operations. Electric trucks reshaping Hager’s delivery flows show how sustainability and performance converge.

Better buildings. Better tomorrows. These four words express Hager’s brand concept and set the direction of this review. Safe, sustainable, and intelligent electrification of buildings is our business. The strategy we execute, the solutions we bring to market, and the brand we have reaffirmed are grounded in one conviction: the energy transition creates opportunity, and capturing it is the most durable path to growth. Better buildings is a promise about impact. Buildings that are electrified, automated, and connected to renewable energy reduce carbon emissions, lower energy costs, and make communities more resilient. Delivering that promise responsibly means managing what goes into the buildings we help create: the substances in our materials, the emissions from our manufacturing sites, the resilience of our supply chain. Better tomorrows begins with how we design, source, and manufacture today. Better buildings ultimately start with people.

The strategy we execute, the solutions we bring to market, and the brand we have reaffirmed are grounded in one conviction: the energy transition creates opportunity, and capturing it is the most durable path to growth.

Franck Houdebert

Chief Human Resources Officer and Sustainability Sponsor

Across every role and country, our ability to deliver depends on competent and motivated people operating in a safe and fair environment. Health and safety, open dialogue and feedback, lifelong learning, engagement, and fair treatment are some key conditions that foster a strong collective dynamic to sustainably perform in our business. When a manufacturing team works safely, when an engineer develops new technical expertise, when a manager leads inclusively, initiatives and creativity become natural and contribute to creating better solutions and stronger outcomes. This is part of caring. Care fuels our human energy and collective momentum to move and succeed together. It is how Hager behaves and acts. Together, we grow.

The following business cases show what those commitments look like in practice. Solar generation powering our production in Pune. Electric trucks reshaping internal delivery flows. Lower-impact materials entering our supply chain. Early-careers investment building the capabilities we will need as we move towards 2030. This is evidence that sustainability and business performance reinforce each other when the strategy is coherent, and that better buildings and better tomorrows are the same goal.

We go beyond what is required of us because credible transformation does not stop at our own walls. Our partners, suppliers, installers, and customers are part of what we are building. The standards we set for ourselves, we extend through collaboration, transparency, and long-term relationships that create shared value.

Better buildings today. Better tomorrows for everyone who lives and works in them.

PULSE: The Hager Sustainability Impact Review – undefinedLetter of the Chairman – undefinedLetter from the Chief Executive Officer – undefinedIntroduction – undefinedOur brand promise – undefinedThe Return to Blue – undefinedOperational Excellence – undefinedIntroduction – undefinedThe switch to circular – undefinedPowering performance, locally – undefinedFrom Charging to Participating – undefinedHager at a Glance – undefinedIntroduction – undefinedNavigating change, building momentum – undefinedTomorrow Won't Wait – undefinedIntroduction – undefinedThe roof that pays for itself – undefinedBeyond the last mile: the routes to zero – undefinedWhen buildings learn to think – undefinedThe talent equation – undefinedGrowing skills, growing business – undefinedFrom fishing nets to circuit breakers – undefinedOur sustainability focus areas – undefinedSustainability by the numbers – undefinedContact / Imprint – undefined