Partnerships and affiliations The specificity of the activity allows us to interact directly with members of the communities in which we operate, and the large number of existing and potential customers urges us to pay special attention to the actions and projects we carry out that could influence this main category of stakeholders. Thus, we choose to collaborate and partner with entities with which we have a good compatibility in terms of sustainability standards and which implement the same sets of values as us. In order to bring positive impacts throughout the value chain, we implement together with our partners projects that promote the development of the business environment, sustainability, children's education and development, environmental protection, access to the health system and much more. Thus, the results of these partnerships bring benefits in all directions of sustainability and can be found in all sections of this report. More information on projects and partnerships that have direct social implications can be found in the chapter "Employees and society", section "Social responsibility". The projects and partnerships that support the performance of environmental protection and CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES are presented in the chapter "Energy, Climate and Resources", section "Conservation of resources" and in the chapter "Sustainable assortment", section "Packaging management". Our main affiliations are: • The Association of Large Commercial Networks in Romania (AMRCR) • The Employers' Federation of Trade Networks (FPRC) • Eurocommerce • Concordia Confederation • The Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK) • The Romanian Diversity Chamber of Commerce (RDCC) • The Retailers Association for the Environment (ARM) We create partnerships with educational institutions because we are convinced that education is the foundation of any healthy society and at the same time, we believe that only through a stable educational base can the standard of the workforce be increased. At the same time, we try to contribute to reducing the gap between the academic environment and the education received in the pre-university education system and the reality of the labor market in our industry. Within the collaborations with the academic environment, we continued this year the successful partnership with the Academy of Economic Studies, as a result of which we finalized the study "Strategies for balancing Romania's trade balance by stimulating and supporting national production". This study was based on a complex analysis of the TripleRO (3RO) initiative, with the aim of analysing its impact on the local economy and identifying SUSTAINABILITY STEP-BY-STEP CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BUSINESS SUSTAINABLE ASSORTMENT ENERGY, CLIMATE AND RESOURCES EMPLOYEES AND SOCIETY INDEX GRI & SASB CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BUSINESS
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