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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Bruno VANRYB

Founder and CEO of the Avanquest Software Group

“ I’ve always been convinced that there was no sustainable development without the right balance of economic, social and environmental factors. At Avanquest Software, we have always made the values of transparency, ethics and social and environmental responsibility the focus of our concerns. Essential and integrated at all stages of our strategy, these factors are the engine behind the

corporate-governance principles that we apply everywhere worldwide in the design of our products vis-à-vis our customers, our partners, and all of our employees.

Even though Avanquest Software’s business produces mainly intangibles given its core digital software activity, the Group takes all essential measures

at the Group level to ensure sustainable and responsible economic development.

At all levels, Avanquest encourages virtuous behavior and makes it a priority to reduce its energy consumption and its environmental impact.

Despite the fact that software development and online marketing using SaaS and cloud computing requires more and more power, Avanquest virtualizes its servers to the best of their ability to successfully reduce energy consumption and recycles all of its work and calculating stations.

With an ever-increasing share of its business on the internet, Avanquest has significantly reduced the number of software

types manufactured, packaged and shipped by advocating for paperless commerce, which brings only economic and

ecological benefits to its customers while greatly reducing the business’s environmental impact.

In the offline portion of the business, all elements that go into the software boxes are designed to generate the least amount of waste and are

of course manufactured using the maximum amount of recycled materials and designed to be easily recyclable themselves.

By installing videoconferencing systems in all its subsidiaries, the Group has substantially reduced the amount of travelling its employees do while encouraging the ones who do have to travel to favor trains or, when necessary, to use vehicles with low CO2 emissions. Similarly, the Group limits its consumption of ink and paper in all its offices and promotes working on online documents.

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