LVMH launch Store Environment Awards

This week the Louis Vuitton group launched its first edition of the LVMH Store Environment Awards. The awards honor best practices at all of its retail Houses.

LVMH Group Managing Director Organized Antonio Belloni championed the initiative, alongside Environment Director Sylvie Bénard. The awards recognize LVMH Houses for exemplary environmental initiatives and lay out paths to further progress in the years ahead. All share a common objective: making environmental performance an integral part of all projects of LVMH’s brands well upstream, right from the initial design brief.

Established following an in-depth audit by an outside consulting firm, the method used for the LVMH Store Environment Awards draws on eight of the most widely recognized methods for assessing environmental performance around the world, including LEED (US), BREEAM (UK), HQE (EU) and Green Mark (Singapore).

The Group awarded eight prices for best practise

Eight prizes were given to six Maisons for their best practices during the awards ceremony: The “Envelop” award went to the Loewe Goya store in Madrid for the renovation of a historic building including high-quality insulation solutions.

The “Building Services” award was given to the Bulgari New Bond Street store in London for a system enabling remote control of energy consumption.

The “Air and Acoustic” award was given to the Louis Vuitton store in Santa Monica, California, recognizing a system that measures and manages air quality in stores.

The “Maintenance” award went to Le Bon Marché for its creation of eight waste management tracks.

The “Construction” award was given to the Louis Vuitton store in Santa Monica, California, which has limited Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the air inside the store.

Coinciding with its first year of the LVMH internal carbon fund, the awards single out eco-design, renewable energies and tools to track energy consumption.

For over 20 years, the LVMH Environment Department has supported the Group’s companies to help them minimize their environmental footprint and regularly increase their performance. According to LVMH this has led to a host of initiatives such as the LIFE (LVMH Initiatives For the Environment) program, which was launched in 2012 and is now a strategic pillar in every Maison.

LVMH aims to reduce greenhouse emission by 25pc by 2020

The Group has stressed the commitment of all LVMH Maisons in its goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by the year 2020.

“The LVMH Group is anchored by three powerful values, two of which is creativity and innovation. The design and production of our products and stores must integrate innovation and creativity, as well as excellence in execution and environmental performance,” stated Antonio Belloni, Group Managing Director.

“The LVMH Store Environment Awards”, more than just an award ceremony, aim to define a roadmap for continuous improvements for all LVMH Houses,” said Sylvie Benard, Group Environment Director. “The guidance established by these awards has for example led to the development of special training for architects as part of our newly-created Environment Academy, which is essential to help us achieve our objective of reducing our environmental footprint.”

Photo credit: LVMH Store Environment Awards, Source: LVMH