"As a responsible company, it is a given task for us to reduce our climate footprint as much as possible. We already have a very low CO2 emission rate at Sanistål when comparing at the industry level, but now we are raising the bar for our work on sustainability even further. The goal is simply that we become CO2-neutral as quickly as possible," says Gitte Østergaard Futtrup.
Passionate about sustainability
The new sustainability manager has been promoted from within. Gitte Østergaard Futtrup comes from a position as an HR consultant, but in reality, she has already served for several years as the sustainability coordinator at Sanistål, where she has been responsible for writing the company's annual CSR report. Sanistål's CSR reports have been recognized multiple times by Økonomisk Ugebrev as some of the best CSR reporting among publicly traded Small Cap companies in Denmark.
"I am passionate about sustainability, and therefore it is fantastic to see how both Sanistål's new management and our board are extremely ambitious regarding the climate agenda. There is full support for sustainability being one of the central elements in our future strategy," says Gitte Østergaard Futtrup, who has been an employee-elected member of Sanistål's board since 2018.
A strong green culture
She emphasizes that Sanistål has already launched a number of green initiatives in recent years.
Among other things, a brand new energy-saving logistics system has been implemented, more of the company's company cars run on electricity, which does not emit CO2, and furthermore, Sanistål has chosen that all distribution of goods to the company's 36,000 business customers takes place in an open system, where goods are transported together with other companies' products. This achieves a significant CO2 reduction because capacity is shared collectively instead of Sanistål having its own trucks.
"At Sanistål, we have built a strong culture where it is natural to integrate sustainability into all our processes and initiatives. This applies, for example, to our popular value-creating concepts EasySupply and StockMaster, where we help our customers reduce their consumption while ensuring that distribution is as climate-friendly as possible. This demonstrates that there can indeed be huge business potential in thinking of more sustainable solutions for our customers," says Gitte Østergaard Futtrup.
Right for the task
She will head a newly created sustainability department, which will be organized as part of Supply Chain.
"Gitte is exceptionally skilled at driving the sustainability agenda internally in the organization, and she has been the one, more than anyone else, who has carried our previous work on sustainability. Therefore, it is in every way obvious that it is Gitte, as the new sustainability manager, who should lead our very important and ambitious effort to make Sanistål CO2-neutral," says Supply Chain Director Stephan Schuler.
Contact: Sustainability Manager Gitte Østergaard Futtrup: 25 65 50 62
July 1, 2022