07.02.2017
ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA DE0006223407
DGAP-News: ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA: The ProCredit group's Germany-based institutions validate their environmental management system under the EMAS standard
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ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA: The ProCredit group's Germany-based
institutions validate their environmental management system under the EMAS
standard
07.02.2017 / 09:30
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The ProCredit group's Germany-based institutions validate their
environmental management system under the EMAS standard
- ProCredit Holding, ProCredit Bank Germany, ProCredit Academy and Quipu
received EMAS certification in December 2016
- Part of the group-wide strategy to minimise the institutions'
environmental impact
Frankfurt am Main, 07 February 2017 - The four Germany-based members of the
ProCredit group - ProCredit Holding, ProCredit Bank Germany, ProCredit
Academy, and the group's software development company, Quipu - received
both the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) certification and ISO
14001 certification for their environmental management system. The
certifications were granted in November (ISO 14001) and December 2016
(EMAS) to ProCredit Holding, covering all German ProCredit companies. The
EMAS certification is a highly recognised and demanding voluntary
management system for managing the environmental impact of an organisation.
The German institutions play a pivotal role for the development-oriented
commercial ProCredit group, which consists of banks for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs). The group mainly operates in the attractive and growing
banking markets of South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Promoting ecologically
sound economic development is an integral part of the group's mission and
business strategy. For that reason, all institutions across the group
introduced a comprehensive environmental management system already in 2011,
aiming to reduce the ecological footprint of both the ProCredit
institutions and its clients. In this effort, the ProCredit group is
supported by IPC GmbH, which advises all companies across the group on
environmental management and green finance. Compared to the average figures
for German offices published by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Energy, the German ProCredit institutions significantly outperform this
benchmark group in terms of energy, heating and paper consumption.
The recent effort to externally audit and validate the environmental
management system under the more demanding EMAS standard is therefore an
important step and in line with the group's corporate culture of
transparent communication. By mid-2017, the entire ProCredit group is
expected to be certified under ISO 14001. In the meantime, the ProCredit
banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Georgia, Kosovo,
Macedonia and Serbia have already received ISO 14001 certification for
their environmental management systems.
As of December 2016, ProCredit Holding is one of only fifteen companies in
the financial sector listed in the German EMAS register. Through staff
trainings, green procurement guidelines, awareness-raising campaigns and
its green finance services, the ProCredit group applies environmental
considerations in all its operations and raises awareness among its
employees and clients. The improved environmental performance indicators
for fuel, electricity and paper on the group level attest to the success of
this strategy.
Borislav Kostadinov, Member of the Management Board of ProCredit Holding,
states that the commitment to conduct business responsibly and sustainably
stretches beyond the implementation of an efficient environmental
management system: "Our approach reaches well beyond the monitoring of the
environmental performance of our institutions. We see environmental
management as a common challenge we share with the societies in which we
operate, and, as a Hausbank for small and medium enterprises, clearly and
most directly with our clients. This is how we want to help achieve
something better for future generations: by working hand in hand with our
clients to meet the common challenges we all face."
About the ProCredit Group
ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany, is the parent company of the international ProCredit group,
comprising banks with a focus on South Eastern and Eastern Europe that have
specialised in serving SMEs. In addition to this strong regional presence,
the group also operates in Germany and South America. The core shareholders
of ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA are the strategic investors Zeitinger
Invest and ProCredit Staff Invest (comprising investment vehicles for
ProCredit staff members), the Dutch DOEN Foundation, KfW and the IFC (World
Bank Group). ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA is supervised, on a
consolidated basis, as the superordinated company of the ProCredit group
pursuant to the German Banking Act by the German Federal Financial
Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht,
BaFin) and by the Deutsche Bundesbank. For additional information, visit:
www.procredit-holding.com.
Press contact:
ProCredit Holding: Andrea Kaufmann
Tel.: +49 69 951 437 138, e-mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA
Rohmerplatz 33-37
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Phone: +49-69-951437-0
Fax: +49-69-951437-168
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.procredit-holding.com
ISIN: DE0006223407
WKN: 622340
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Dusseldorf, Tradegate Exchange
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