In 2019, we published our Sustainability Statement, in which we described the most important medium and long-term goals of our sustainability agenda.

We report annually on the progress we have made in implementing these goals: we publish a comprehensive Sustainability Report every two years and a Sustainability Update in the years between. All publications to date on our sustainability agenda can be found on our website.

This comprehensive Sustainability Report relates to the fiscal year 2022. Unless otherwise stated, all facts and figures published here refer to the reporting date of December 31, 2022. The editorial deadline was September 30, 2023.

The content of this report is based on the criteria of the German Sustainability Code (“Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex” – DNK). A DNK Declaration of Conformity was published at the same time as the publication of this Sustainability Report and can be viewed on the DNK website. It incorporates the information and key figures from all the operating and corporate divisions described in the chapter “The Melitta Group”.

We plan to gradually move our sustainability reporting to the Internet and link it increasingly with our financial reporting.

This report has not been audited by external auditors.