At HUGO BOSS, packaging is used at various stages in the value chain and for different reasons. For example, we protect our goods in accordance with our premium standards, bundle units of orders and transport, present our goods in retail stores and hand them over to our customers in shopping bags or gift packaging. Our goal is always to save material, use sustainable raw materials or develop reusable solutions. In doing so, we rely on recycled plastics and FSC®-certified paper, for example. In order to meet our high standards we have developed a Packaging Guideline with material specifications and concrete targets.
HUGO BOSS produces its products worldwide. To meet the complex sourcing requirements, our logistics processes involve all relevant modes of transport: sea freight, air freight, combined traffic (sea and air freight), and rail traffic. Wherever our delivery promises to our customers allow it, we always use the mode of transport with the smallest CO2 footprint. HUGO BOSS strives to capture optimization potential throughout the supply chain:
By 2025, we will reduce our total packaging material by 5 % compared to 2019. For example, HUGO BOSS is continuously reviewing how cardboard boxes can be used in the best possible way, which transport methods can be used that don’t require protective clothing covers or where the size of the film covers can be reduced.
First target update 2021
We have set ourselves the target of having 100 % of our plastic packaging made of recycled or other sustainable material by 2025. For example, almost 90 % of the protective garment covers used in our own hanging-garment warehouse have long been made of recycled material.
Target achievement in 2019: 31 %
HUGO BOSS has set itself the goal of sourcing 100 % of its packaging paper – from labels to shipping cartons – from sustainably managed forests and/or in recycled form by 2025.
Target achievement in 2019: 82 %
HUGO BOSS has set itself the goal of increasing the proportion of cadboard boxes in the logistics sector. In "inbound" logistics, we will reuse 3% more transport packaging by 2022 compared to 2019.
Target achieved in 2019: 844 tons of reused cardboard packaging