FIEGE Sustainability Report: more data, more transparency, more measurable progress
The FIEGE Group has published its fourth sustainability report. On roughly 90 pages, the Greven-based logistics provider spotlights the progress on its pathway to greater sustainability during the reporting year 2025. One important milestone is the official validation of its climate targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Shaping the future together: FIEGE has published the fourth sustainability report in the company’s history. In the document, the over 150-year-old family business details all the measures that it implemented across its People, Planet and Partners pillars last year. One of the things the Corporate Sustainability Team worked on extensivly was to further improve the report’s data basis and data quality in order to provide an even more insightful and detailed overall picture. Furthermore, FIEGE had its own sustainability performance assessed by additional external and independent certification bodies – with encouraging results: The auditing company KPMG successfully conducted a readiness check on FIEGE’s materiality assessment in accordance with CSRD requirements. Furthermore, the entire FIEGE Group was awarded a CDP-Score B and, for the first time, a bronze medal from EcoVadis. This places the logistics service provider among the top 35 per cent of all companies analysed by the rating platform during the same period.
“Over the past year, we have taken further important steps of which we can rightly be proud. Nevertheless, we are well aware that we are still a long way from reaching our goals and have a lot of work ahead of us. We can only achieve the climate targets that we have set ourselves – and which have now been validated by the SBTi – by working together across the entire organisation and in collaboration with our customers and partners,” explains Sandra Achternbusch, Executive Director of Corporate Sustainability at FIEGE.
A good example of what this collaboration can look like are circular economy projects that the international logistics provider is piloting with selected customers or has already rolled out into regular operations. Furthermore, through its Ventures division, FIEGE is making targeted investments in sustainable start-ups such as Resourcly (AI-based optimisation of inventory management), Voltfang (battery storage solutions for industry and commerce), Filics (robotics for autonomous pallet transport) or pyck (open-source toolkit for warehousing software), to drive the development of sustainable solutions. Achternbusch emphasises: “One of the biggest levers remains the expansion of our logistics centres into energy hubs, whose large-scale PV systems, energy storage facilities and charging parks make us less dependent on the energy market and more resilient to external influences. Our self-production rate now stands at 17.5 per cent – and we intend to increase this further in the future.”
As a family business, FIEGE also places great emphasis on a sustainable HR strategy designed to foster stable, long-term employment relationships, continuous professional development and diversity. “As a logistics service provider that, depending on the industry, faces seasonal business and peak sales periods, we rely on flexible employment models. Nevertheless, we aim to keep the proportion of fixed-term contracts as low as possible. We are therefore delighted that 84 per cent of our colleagues now have permanent contracts,” says Achternbusch. The fact that FIEGE is on the right track is also demonstrated by the results of the annual survey of around 21,000 employees worldwide, who rate their overall satisfaction at an average of 4.6 out of a possible six points.
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