people

“At Tokmanni Group, it is important to offer our employees opportunities to develop in their work and to maintain a good work-life balance.”

It is also essential for us that our employees are content and committed to their work and that teams have good team spirit.

Furthermore, we want to ensure that the people manufacturing our products work in appropriate conditions. We aim to build long-term relationships with suppliers of our private labels particularly in high-risk countries. In addition, we use third party audits and perform own social compliance audits to ensure that we know in which conditions our products are manufactured.

Sirpa Huuskonen, Chief People, Culture and Sustainability Officer, Tokmanni Group

Tokmanni Group is in the first wave of companies publishing report based on EU’s CSRD regulation. Our employees play a crucial role in the success of the Group, which is why we focus on investing in employee well-being, equal treatment at work, and the promotion of training and development opportunities. Through our Human Rights policy, we are committed to respecting human rights in all our business activities.

We provide more detailed information about our human rights principles and commitments in section S of the ESRS report, and about our own workforce in section S1.

Due to businesses acquired in 2023, Tokmanni Group is in a transition phase in the integration of Dollarstore and Big Dollar as well as Click Shoes and Shoe House operations into its sustainability target setting and reporting. Tokmanni Group consists of Tokmanni and Dollarstore segments. Tokmanni segment operates in Finland and consists of Tokmanni stores, Click Shoes stores and Shoe House stores, as well as Tokmanni and Click Shoes online stores. When referring to Shoe House and Click Shoes store chains, name Shoe House is used to cover both shoe store chains, unless otherwise stated. Dollarstore segment operates in Sweden and Denmark and consists of Dollarstore and Big Dollar stores.

When we talk about People,
we are talking about these topics in particular:

Own workforce

Our committed and motivated employees are the basis of Tokmanni Group’s success.

Stakeholder Engagement

Through active dialogue, we strive to ensure that our sustainability work focuses on topics that are relevant to both our business and our stakeholders.

People related Sustainability Targets and Results

We are working diligently to achieve, for example, our current targets and set new ones related to people.

Human Rights Commitment

We are committed to respect human rights and to remediate adverse human rights impacts throughout our business operations. We expect our business partners to have the same commitment to respect and remediate.

Human Rights Principles

Occupational Health and Safety, Employment, Equal treatment, Children and Young Workers, and Forced and Compulsory Labour and human trafficking are considered as most salient Human Rights Principles for Tokmanni Group. They also set the standards for a human rights-based approach in Tokmanni Group’s business decisions.

Focus on high risk countries

Special focus is laid on production countries that the World Bank has acknowledged as high-risk countries concerning human rights. You can read more about our way of working with suppliers in high-risk countries in the Products and Sourcing section.

Read more in the Products and Sourcing section

COoperation

We ♥ charity work

Our Tokmanni variety discount retail chain has supported, for example, the MIELI Finnish Mental Health Association, a mental health NGO, since 2018, and the John Nurminen Foundation, a praised rescuer of the Baltic Sea, since 2020. In addition, together with Unilever Finland, we have helped Hurstinapu, a charity organisation led by the Hursti family and known to the entire Finnish people, to help those in need since 2011. In Sweden, our Dollarstore store chain has built a long-term cooperation with the Stockholm City Mission.

Our support to MIELI Finnish Mental Health Association has been EUR 32.000 and to the John Nurminen Foundation EUR 178.000. In addition, the sales of MIELI’s Mielinauha mental health ribbons have generated almost EUR 240.000 for Finnish mental health work and crisis assistance. In addition, together with Unilever Finland, we have donated various everyday necessities worth EUR 820.000 to Hurstinapu charity.

The photo shows Sirpa Huuskonen, Chief People, Culture and Sustainability Officer at Tokmanni Group (left) and Liisa Partio, Communications Director at MIELI Mental Health Finland. Photo: Viivi Virtanen / MIELI Mental Health Finland

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people

When we talk about People,we are talking about these topics in particular:

Sustainability Statement 2024

We ♥ charity work

Which sustainability topics would you like us to tell more about?

When we talk about People,
we are talking about these topics in particular: