« Korus Group is built around strong values that guide
our actions as responsible entrepreneurs and our
behaviour.
The Group shares with its managers and employees
the desire to promote its values. Together, we reaffirm the need to embody them by acting in an exemplary manner. Indeed, the success of our company will only be sustainable if we clearly affirm our requirements as an ethical and responsible company.
CSR is defined as the way companies adapt, integrating social, environmental and economic concerns into their values, decisionmaking and strategy to improve their performance.
In this context, Korus Group has undertaken the drafting of this Charter so that it becomes a reference for everyone in terms of individual or collective behaviour and a guide for our daily actions enabling us to embody our values.
We are determined to make this Charter a unifying
issue, and to share it with the men and women who join our Group with the same aspirations. »
– Charles MARCOLIN, President of Korus Group
Our three CSR principles
Principle n°1: social balance
‘To be an example in our day-to-day actions for fairness, respect for health, safety and diversity.’
- Creation of communities bringing together people in the same profession in order to share their successes and challenges.
- Creation of a Market Place by the Human Resources Department.
- Community Female Leadership Program led by Anna Stegagnini, International Business Development Director.
Principle n°2: respect for the environnement
- Collaboration between Lbc by Korus Group and Leasecom, France’s leading independent leasing company, to offer companies a circular leasing® service for office furniture.
- 22% reduction in our energy consumption, compared to 2022, at Korus Group headquarters. This is the result of our actions in favour of responsible and sustainable consumption.
Principle n°3: economic integrity
‘Contribute to the dynamism of local ecosystems by maintaining integrity with all stakeholders’.
- CIR (Research Tax Credit) approval from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, confirming our ability to carry out R&D work on behalf of companies.
- Creation of a new Procurement Department within Korus Group, enabling the implementation of the Sustainable Procurement Charter
Carbon balance
Our low-carbon approach:
In order to reduce its carbon footprint, Korus Group has structured a roadmap in line with the objectives of Paris. It aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. This roadmap involves reducing all our emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3), as well as actively participating in carbon sequestration or reduction projects, in order to generate a positive environmental impact.
Here are a few examples of the actions we have taken:
- Re-use, recycling and eco-design through our 5R approach
- Circular leasing offered by Lbc by Korus Group in collaboration with Leasecom
Our carbon footprint:
Since 2021 we carry out an annual carbon footprint assessment (scope 1 including direct emissions and scope 2 including indirect emissions) of our activities in France. The first results showed a decrease of 20% of our emissions in 2022 compared to 2021.
CSR Governance
In 2023, the CSR Steering Committee was strengthened to promote the CSR approach within each department and entity of the group. Representatives from Korus Group Consulting and the Operational Support Directorate were added. At the same time, we enhanced our collaboration with international teams to prepare for the new European CSRD directive.
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Steering Committee
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Executive Committee
Our certifications
Our certificates
A gold medal for our CSR policy
To ensure transparency in its CSR approach, Korus Group underwent the rigorous evaluation criteria of the international platform EcoVadis. With an overall score of 74/100, it was awarded the gold medal. This result places the company in the top 5% of businesses evaluated by EcoVadis over the past twelve months (95th percentile or higher).
ISO 9001, 45001, 14001 certified
Since 2019, we have had our Quality policy certified and hold the ISO 9001 certification. The ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications were obtained in May 2023. With the acquisition of the ISO 14001 certification, we commit to defining key performance indicators to achieve and implementing necessary actions within our internal processes to meet this objective.
- The ISO 9001 standard defines the minimum requirements that an organisation’s Quality Management System must demonstrate to meet in order to guarantee the level of product and service quality that it claims to have with itself and with the market.
- ISO 14001 provides a management framework for the integration of environmental management practices, pursuing environmental protection, pollution prevention, and reduction of energy and resource consumption.
- ISO 45001 ‘Management systems for occupational health and safety – Requirements and guidance for use’ is an international normative reference that redefines the requirements that an occupational safety management system must have. It was created with the aim of providing companies around the world with a scheme to apply and follow in order to make workplaces safer.
Our labels
Member of the United Nations Global Compact
Since 2021, Korus Group has been a supporter of the Global Compact, responding to the call for companies around the world to align their practices and strategies with Ten Principles, derived from the fundamental texts of the United Nations, in the areas of human rights, labour law, the environment and anti-corruption.
In Germany – DGNB System
DGNB, the German Council for Sustainable Building, is a non-profit organisation based in Stuttgart. Since its foundation in 2007, DGNB has been committed to the development of liveable buildings and urban neighbourhoods. Its main objective is to support changes in the construction and real estate market through an understanding of responsible and sustainable issues.
Our sponsorship initiatives
Charles Marcolin, CEO and Founder of Korus Group, has been unanimously re-elected for a third term at the head of the GEM Foundation. This collaboration with the Grenoble business school took concrete form in 2018 with the creation of the TIM Lab, a space dedicated to discovering through experimentation the different stages of the innovation process.
“The GEM Foundation is a fundamental lever for continuing to open Korus Group up to the world, within a rich and varied ecosystem, alongside Grenoble Ecole de Management. This support and this mandate are part of a twofold movement for us: to strengthen our commitment to society, and to consolidate our R&D”, explains Charles Marcolin.
An initiative of Grenoble’s two IUTs (University Institutes of Technology), the Club, under the impetus of its President Charles Marcolin, strives to build bridges between the university and the companies that will train the professionals of tomorrow, through:
- Apprenticeship: training tomorrow’s professionals with kindness, developing their skills, passing on experience, codes and values and benefiting from the momentum of these young people to build tomorrow’s world with them.
- People skills and values: instilling by example a taste for hard work, commitment, respect, humility, consideration and care for others, their training, well-being and health.
We support the GHW association, which aims to combat sudden adult death by cardiac arrest, by raising public awareness of life-saving techniques and supporting scientific research into heart health.
To find out more about our CSR actions
Download our CSR Charter 2023 & our CSR Report 2023