Autogrill Group Making the travellers day better Afuture: enhance Accessibility and Comfort inside stores trough partnership between Autogrill and Stakeholders Milan, Internal Audit & CSR Dept.
Afuture: Enhance Accessibility and Comfort 2 Autogrill Group and the Corporate Social Responsibility “Autogrill Group is committed to promoting sustainability inside its activities to gain long-term competitive advantage. We aim to follow and promote good sustainability practice, to reduce the impacts of all our activities and help our stakeholders do the same.” A commitment that comes from the desire to generate an internal transformation path that is able to increase the value for the Group and for its stakeholders (employees, consumers, shareholders, suppliers, landlords and brand partners, communities).
Afuture: Enhance Accessibility and Comfort 3 To offer people on the move a quality catering and retail service, with the aim of creating value for all our stakeholders, while fully respecting cultural differences and caring for the natural environment.” Autogrill Group Mission
Afuture: Enhance Accessibility and Comfort 4 Afuture Project During 2007 Autogrill has designed the Afuture Project, able to involve the entire Group in a new way of thinking and doing business. “In order to ensure long term profitability is essential respect people and environment.”
Afuture: Enhance Accessibility and Comfort 5 Ecogrill is the first contemporary sustainable structure in the food&beverage field. Ecogrill uses geothermal energy, the walls are made of polystyrene foam, for a natural effect of thermal insulation and structure will be covered by a grassy mantle in order to minimise environmental impact. Ecogrill – a sustainability future is possible
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7 Partnership between Autogrill and Stakeholders The not-for-profit “Lo Spirito di Stella" Association and Autogrill S.p.A. are promoting the 2007 edition of the International Competition of Ideas entitled “Design and Build for Everyone". The initiative invites architects and designers (both professionals and students) to submit solutions for certain areas in Autogrill Points of Sale (counter, check-out and toilets) in order to enhance comfort and functionality without sacrificing elements of design fundamental to the elimination of barriers, including psychological ones, in relationships between disabled and non-disabled people.
Afuture: Enhance Accessibility and Comfort 8 This project is a natural development for a group like Autogrill, which has been working with concepts like innovation, diversification and internationalization for 30 years now. Full understanding of what has been accomplished to date encourages Autogrill to continue exploring new frontiers of service to meet the changing needs of all our customers, employees, communities and shareholders. Partnership between Autogrill and Stakeholders They are 452 the planners (students and professional) that have participated in the third edition of the international Contest of ideas "to Plan and to realize for all": the jury has examined 204 proposals. The images represent the winner in the “section counter” that will be realized in the Ecogrill.