In addition to the high added value services and innovative technologies that have always characterized NOVOMATIC Italia's offer, for the first time the Group transmits its commitment to Corporate Responsibility in an integrated manner through a path based on ESG criteria, aimed at promoting increasingly positive and sustainable growth
An industrial segment with consistent employment levels, very high technological standards, and ever-increasing contributions to taxation awaiting a more precise regulatory definition: the choice to NOVOMATIC Italy to focus more and more on the issues of responsibility and sustainability.
For Markus Buechele (in the picture), CEO of the Italian Group, "it is significant that the criteria ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) are increasingly determining the horizon in which to place being a company in Italy and throughout the world. This is an increasingly pressing duty for all industrial segments and for all of us as citizens".
Precisely by virtue of this wide-ranging awareness, NOVOMATIC Italia aims to combine competitiveness on the physical and online public gaming market with an ever-increasing commitment to the environmental impact of every operational activity on the Italian territory in which it is present through its products. and the dealer network.
Naturally, to achieve such a goal it is essential to promote economic sustainability, an essential element for building a resilient business, which, as Buechele explains, characterized 2022 above all, "a year which saw the NOVOMATIC Italia Group grow considerably on the market but also in terms of employment".
The company's ESG journey began several years ago and has never stopped thanks to the definition of precise and far-sighted objectives with which to look to the future and encourage the reduction of the environmental impact of activities, through planning processes and targeted investments.
One of the most significant investments is thephotovoltaic system at the Rimini headquarters (Watch the VIDEO): a structure made up of 600 photovoltaic solar panels capable of producing 300 MWh of clean electricity in the first 5 years of operation. This system made it possible to cover 40% of the headquarters' energy needs with self-produced green electricity, and reduce CO emissions2 of 70 tons per year, with the reduction of 28% of the Group's total emissions in Italy.
Together with environmental sustainability, the topic of corporate social responsibility has crucial importance and is the cornerstone of the Group's communication with the main internal and external stakeholders.
“The document produced photographs a reality in progress, a path in which we believe and in which we invest a lot of our energies. In describing our experience and the initiatives connected to the ESG principles, we had confirmation of how the value of responsibility is a driving force for us in every area, and particularly in our reference business – is the comment of Mara Di Lecce, Communication & Marketing Manager, with responsibility for Corporate Responsibility -. This approach has led us to promote responsible gaming by understanding the value of every aspect: the safety of players through the reliability of gaming platforms, the training of all Group colleagues, the information dedicated to our guests in gaming venues , in fact, they contribute to creating a measurable asset which, in 2022, allowed us to obtain the G4 standard also for the companies that manage our cinemas, as well as for the concessionaire and the parent company".
The ESG path that NOVOMATIC ensures therefore has a long range and profound motivations for aim for excellence. "One result – comments CEO Markus Buechele – which we want to achieve while remaining faithful to our motto Winning Technology, a strategy based on technology, services, responsibility and sustainability with an approach increasingly aligned with the largest Italian and foreign industrial companies".
