Management

Chairman
Shareholder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Endurance Capital Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany)

Deputy chairman
Chairman of the works council of plants I & II of Linde Material Handling GmbH, Aschaffenburg (Germany)
Chairman of the group works council of KION Group

Former Member of the extended Board of Directors (Corporate Officer), Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan (USA)

Chairman of the works council of KION Warehouse Systems GmbH, Reutlingen (Germany)

Managing Partner of CVC Capital Partners (Deutschland) GmbH, Frankfurt (Germany)

Chairman of the works council of Dematic GmbH and Dematic Services GmbH, Heusenstamm (Germany)

President of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Ltd., Jinan (China)
Chairman of the Asia Pacific Committee at KION GROUP AG, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Chairman of the works council of STILL GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)

Head of tariff department of the IG Metall, Coastal District, Hamburg (Germany)

Head of Central Manufacturing Engineering & Operational Excellence at Space Equipment Operations bei der Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Taufkirchen (Germany)

Senior Advisor, Munich (Germany)

Trade union secretary of the Managing Board of IG Metall, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Vice President Quality at KION GROUP AG, Frankfurt am Main (Aschaffenburg site) (Germany)

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shandong Heavy Industry Group Co. Ltd., Jinan (China), and of China National Heavy-Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., Jinan (China)

Full-time works council member, HQ and plant 2 at Linde Material Handling GmbH, Aschaffenburg (Germany)

The KION Group is committed to operating sustainably. In this we are guided by the definition in the Brundtland Report from the United Nations:

Sustainability affects all areas of our business, and the onus is on all of us to do our bit. Through innovations, ideas, and decisive action we ensure that we meet our objective to be a leader in sustainability. We have put in place a clear sustainability strategy, ambitious targets, and effective measures to support us with this. Our annual sustainability report shows the progress we have made toward achieving our ambitions.

Every year, we publish information about our sustainability strategy and organization, with a focus on the progress that we have made over the reporting period. The sustainability reports are part of our obligation to provide separate non-financial reports in accordance with sections 315b and 315c in conjunction with 289c to 289e of the German Commercial Code (HGB). We also provide additional information beyond what is required by law. This report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Core option.

We use a wide range of relevant key figures to monitor our sustainability program, the most important of which are shown here. Detailed facts and figures on the various topics can be found in our latest sustainability report.

The KION Group’s commitment to sustainability is recognised by investors, financial institutions and rating agencies.
Below are some relevant examples.

CDP

CDP is a global environmental non-profit organisation. Since 2002, investors have been coming together through CDP to demand more and better corporate environmental reporting. Today over 525 investors with assets of US$96 trillion signed CDP’s disclosure request to learn more about companies’ environmental KPIs, strategies and management approaches.

By reporting via CDP, the KION Group makes details of its climate protection strategies and activities public. In 2018, the KION Group received a B scoring, placing it among the 17% best-rated companies across all industries.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is one of the world's largest service providers for responsible investing. ISS ESG, the research and rating unit for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), frequently analyses the most important stock and bond issuers.

In the 2018 rating, ISS ESG assigned a C+ to the KION Group’s environmental, social and governance performance, elevating the KION Group to prime status and including it in the top 20% of companies rated in the machinery sector. Damit gehört die KION Group zu den besten 20% der bewerteten Unternehmen des Sektors „Machinery“.

FTSE4Good Index Series

FTSE Russell (the trade name of FTSE International Limited and Frank Russell Company) confirms that KION GROUP AG has been independently evaluated in keeping with FTSE4Good criteria and meets the requirements for inclusion in the FTSE4Good index series. The FTSE4Good Index Series, developed by the global index company FTSE Group, is designed to measure the performance of companies with strong ESG (environment, social, governance) practices. The FTSE4Good indices are used by a wide variety of market participants to create and evaluate responsible funds and other products.

Our compliance measures are defined and prioritized on the basis of company-wide compliance risk assessments.

Our employees learn about the basic principles of compliance in web-based training sessions, which also raise their awareness of the specific legal risks that we face. Classroom-based training on particular compliance topics is targeted at specific groups.

Our employees and third parties can contact our compliance team with any compliance-related queries.

Potential infringements of laws or of our regulations can be reported through an anonymous and confidential external whistleblower system or via internal channels.

The implementation of, and adherence to, compliance requirements is regularly audited by Group Internal Audit and monitored by Corporate Compliance and the Compliance Committee.

For the purposes of compliance reporting, a survey is regularly conducted across the entire KION Group to check whether compliance requirements are being fulfilled. The results provide the basis for the Chief Compliance Officer’s report to the Executive Board and the Chair of the Supervisory Board’s Audit Committee.