Pacific SOGO Department Store won the third sustainable Nobel Prize Being ahead of the Asian Department store industry

        Being ahead of the Asian Department store industry, Pacific SOGO Department Store was affirmed by the Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards again in May which is known as the "Sustainable Nobel Prize" and won the Green Leadership Award with "Less Carbon, Better Life Creating Asia's First Green Department Store". Pacific SOGO Department Store has taken part in the competition twice and won the prize for the third time which is not only the first in Taiwan's department store retail business, but also the best in Asia, creating the new peak of CSR in department store retail business.
Sophia C.W. Huang, chairman of Pacific SOGO Department Store, attended the award ceremony and said that in 2017, Pacific SOGO Department Store won the "Health Promotion Award" and the "Social Public Welfare Development Award" for its first time. This is not only the first award for Taiwan Department store, but also the only department store in Asia that won two awards. This year, it was again favored by the review, and the achievement of Pacific SOGO Department Store in setting up a green department store benchmark was seen by the international community. This is a great encouragement to all colleagues.
This year's “Less Carbon, Better Life” project that won the prize fully presents the mission of Pacific SOGO Department Store to "Create Asia's First Green Department Store". It has gained the first carbon label certificate of department store retail service industry in Asia, followed by the publication of the Department store's first low-carbon educational picture book "Secrets of Three Leaves", and created " Small trip of low-carbon education in Department stores" for school children that has become a key to children's understanding of low-carbon life and brought energy-saving and carbon-reducing ideas and actions to their families and communities. So far, nearly 100 events have been held. At the same time, Pacific SOGO Department Store has planned a special timetable and set up a special green commodity area, selling more than 130,000 green commodities every year, and launching low-carbon green market, agricultural cooperative enterprise exhibition, green primary school, local small agricultural food exhibition and so on. low-carbon picnic, low-carbon lunchbox teaching are designed for families, low-carbon education seminars and other activities are for colleagues, such as trackless diet promotion to convey the low carbon education in 360 degrees which is taught through lively activities
Pacific SOGO Department Store is also a leader in all department stores in energy saving. It has passed ISO 14064-1 greenhouse gas inventory verification and imported ISO 50001 energy management system. Through energy management and implementation of carbon reduction policy, combination with stakeholders and hardware and software equipment and measures, it has reduced carbon by 25% in three years, seven times more than the emission deduction of carbon the policy stipulated. It has been approved and issued the low carbon label by the EPA and has become an industry model. Later, the company took the lead in refusing to use melamine resin tableware in restaurants of the department store, gourmet counters and staff cafeteria, and promoting "traceless diet" to encourage customers to bring their own containers to the store for consumption. At the end of last year, it cooperated with the Gift Platform to create a "Love Box Delivery" service, which successfully linked recycled economy with social welfare through innovation, and implemented three-month matching deliveries, reducing carbon by 3,248 kg.
Chairman Sophia C.W. Huang believes that CSR is not only an international trend, but also the foundation of sustainable operation of enterprises. Enterprises must start internal engineering, and really internalize CSR into the DNA of enterprises and every employee. The effectiveness of CSR will be reflected in the customer's evaluation of the enterprise, the society's perception of the enterprise, and the performance of the operation. It's a great honor for Pacific SOGO Department Store to be the light of Taiwan again this year, to stand on the international stage. It is hoped to upgrade the retail service industry in the future, and to move towards the goal of enterprise sustainability and environment sustainability.