As we celebrate the European Sustainable Development Week, we met with Véronique di Benedetto, Vice President France, to discuss our CSR positioning as a Responsible Digital Entrepreneur

It’s the first day of Sustainable Development Week! What is going to happen at Econocom?

This week is going to be full of actions around CSR and responsible digital with the Cyber cleanup week, a new challenge with an ambitious collective objective of reducing our digital environmental footprint by 5% (10M emails) at the group level.

We are committed to CSR. But what does this mean in concrete terms and on a daily basis for our external audiences?

CSR is at the heart of the group’s news, embodied in particular by our Chairman, who has given two interviews on the subject in recent weeks. And in particular because it must, more than ever, be integrated into the business. In concrete terms, several offers are available to our customers: Watt’s green, Ecotwice, Ecocarbon, Product care …. And others are still to come in the near future.

All our businesses must now develop their offers by integrating a “responsible” component from their design, native CSR offers in a way!

Beyond our offers, the circular economy is at the heart of our business processes, from upstream to downstream, with the reconditioning, on a rental basis, of 95% of our equipment, 88% of which is provided by companies in the social and solidarity economy. In services too, the circular economy makes sense: downstream with eco-design, for example, or in terms of use, with appropriate and optimised management of our customers’ assets.

Finally, this has been in the group’s DNA since its creation!

And internally?

At Econocom, we have reduced our carbon footprint by 49.70% over the last three years. Our responsibility takes shape at all levels, here are a few examples:

• Disability (signing of a new agreement, rate of over 4%)
• QWL
• Diversity (diversity charter, women in digital, etc.)
• Buildings and car fleet

What are our next challenges?

The challenges ahead are huge and we need to accelerate further. For example, we are going to include the impact of our entire business on our carbon footprint. It will be a real challenge to measure and reduce this impact little by little, without affecting our business.

We also need to pilot even more indicators to demonstrate our progress because the market (customers, partners, extra-financial rating organisations….) and investors are asking us for this evidence, and it is also our desire to publish it.

We are also keen to intensify our commitment to the fight against the digital divide and to work closely with many associations working in this area.

There are many exciting projects to come in the months and years ahead!

* WON * WYGRAŁ*GEWONNEN*

Mobility on Demand

Dear Colleagues,

Decathlon Poland decided to refresh its fleet of smartphones for next 12 months to accelerate a digital transformation process. It concern 5000 units of Samsung and Motorola smartphones. The total investment including a 2 years extension of warranty is PLN 4.5m (ca EUR 1M)

Objective

Project to finance entire refresh of the Decathlon fleet of smartphones across chain of 80 stores located in main cities in Poland.

• Save company’s cash in unexpected turmoil in business environment – COVID-19.
• Solve an issue with electronic equipment lead time by ordering them earlier – in advance.

Key Figures

• 12m refresh program for company’s fleet of Samsung and Motorola smartphones
• Phase #1 regarding 2700 units of smartphones ca EUR 450K already closed in Aug. 21
• Phase #2 regarding 1200 units ca smartphones 300k to be closed in Q4 21
• Phase #3 regarding 1100 units ca 250k to be closed in Q1 22

Why Econocom

• Trusted advisor
• Competitive financial solution
• Flexibility
• Tailored solutions
• Good relationship with supplier SMK Technologie Informatyczne

Econocom winning team

1. Commercial aspect

Gildas Chouin – Country Manager

Waldemar Stasik -Channel Sales Director

2. Legal support

Natalia Depa -Legal Counsel

3. Funding

Urszula Piotrowska-Buźniak -Funding Manager

4. Back office and sales support

Anna Kowińska – Back Office Manager

Thank You all for your support this deal could happen.

Stay well and all the best – see you soon

Christoph & Michal

Dear Colleagues,

Your health and safety is very important to us, so we have created an appropriate hygiene concept for our All Employees Meeting and Evening Event, which is in line with the COVID19 Ordinance of the City of Frankfurt and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Before we get to the details, we would like to point out that if someone has personal concerns about health safety, especially if there are people in the private environment who belong to risk groups, attendance is not mandatory. Such a decision is a pity but very understandable. Please send a short email to Sabine if you want to cancel until Monday 13.09.21 cob.

Besides the legal regulations, every participant has to undergo a quick test on Thursday and Friday.

Therefore we ask all German colleagues to do a “Bürgertest” on Thursday at the pharmacy you trust and bring the negative test result with you. For the Polish colleagues we will organize this test in Frankfurt.

On Friday, all participants will have the opportunity to take a corresponding quick test at Herriotstr. 1 (start at 7.30h, early risers are requested). Of course you can do this test at your local pharmacy as well.

If you have a valid PCR test (72hours) no quick test is necessary.

During the event and the evening event masks are compulsory, exceptions are eating and drinking and when sitting at your place in the auditorium, because here the distance of 1,5m is kept.

We are convinced that this approach will give us the greatest possible security.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact your local SPOC (Sabine. Dorota & Sigrun).

Please use your opportunity to ask questions to Jean-Louis and Angel by sending it to the SPOC or me, latest Monday cob.

Stay well and all the best

Christoph & Team

P.S. Further emails regarding agenda and organizational tips are coming next week.

Rowena Voyé

Liebe Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter,

Wir freuen uns Rowena Voyé als Teamleiterin für unsere Niederlassung in Düsseldorf im Team der deutschen Vertriebsadministration begrüßen zu dürfen . Rowena wird das Team in Düsseldorf von ihrem Arbeitsplatz in Frankfurt aus leiten.

Rowena ist zertifizierter Leasingspezialist mit 22 Jahren Berufserfahrung in der Leasingbranche (Arbeit für BFL Leasing & VR Leasing).

Die Betreuung und Entwicklung von regionalen Vertriebspartnern sowie Key Accounts in der Kopier- und Druckerindustrie und im Bereich Finanzierungsleasing sind ihre Kernaufgaben.

Ihre Erfahrung als Außendienstmitarbeiterin wird sie zudem gewinnbringend für Econocom einbringen.

Bitte begrüßen und unterstützen Sie Rowena!

Bleiben Sie gesund und alles Gute.

Carsten & Ornella

Unternehmen aufzuzeigen, mit wie wenig Aufwand und wie kosteneffizient hochmoderne Visualisierungs-, Präsentations- und Meetingraum-Lösungen in bestehende Systeme zu integrieren sind oder diese ersetzen – das ist es, was Odette Zimmermann bei Ihrer Arbeit immer wieder beflügelt.
Kein Wunder, dass sie als Senior Sales Executive Kunden aus der Automobil- und aus der Pharmabranche gleichermaßen begeistert. Und privat? Auch hier geht Odette mit viel Kreativität, Herzblut und Zielstrebigkeit ans Werk. Ob sattgrün oder üppig blühend – unter ihrem grünen Daumen scheinen Blumen und Pflanzen beinahe im Sekundentakt zu wachsen und zu gedeihen.

Liebe Odette, wir freuen uns, auch mit Dir weiter zu wachsen und gratulieren Dir gleichzeitig zum 10-jährigen Firmenjubiläum!

#econocom #kollegen_innen #persönlichkeiten #hinterdenkulissen

Dear Colleagues,

 We are doing know the next steps to organize our event.

 For each entity we have appointed a SPOC (single point of contact) who will support you and you have to register via this person.

·        Sigrun Brox, sbrox@energy-net.de

·        Dorota Ziolkowska, Dorota.ZIOLKOWSKA@econocom.com

·        Sabine von Hebel, Sabine.VON.HEBEL@econocom.com

You will receive an email from you local SPOC within the next 48h, with the ask to click in the email if you attend or not (latest by August 15^th).

 Subsequently your SPOC will contact you regarding any travel arrangements.

 Last but not least, please feel free to provide to your SPOC ideas or topics you would like to hear about in our joint sessions

In advance a big thank you to our SPOCs!

More to follow soon.

Stay well and all the best

 Christoph

when: September 16^th & 17^th 2021

Start 12.30h on Thursday

End 12.30h Friday

where: Frankfurt, Herriot Strasse 1

First General Digital Company in Europe (EGD)
The Econocom group designs, finances and facilitates the digital transformation of large companies and public organizations. Established in 18 countries, we are among the rare European players to cover the entire chain of digital professions: from equipment to services and up to financing.

Managing complexity
We observe in the field that the demands and needs of our customers are more and more complex: technological developments are permanent, projects are more and more international, issues relating to CSR must absolutely be taken into account. , the offer is more fragmented between publishers, manufacturers, banks… but above all, end users (employees, customers…) are always more demanding, mobile and connected. To guide companies in this fuzzy digital world, we provide a simple answer:  One Digital Company.

What we do
The group is one of the few that can coordinate and take overall responsibility for the entire business chain of a digital project: from equipment, to services to their tailor-made financing or pay-per-use … And this in one or more countries.

How we do it
For its customers, Econocom designs and implements digital technology that truly serves them and creates lasting value. To do this, our teams design solutions based on their actual uses, always preparing the next step and placing responsible digital at the heart of our activities.

What sets us apart
We bring digital projects to fruition by managing their complexity and sustainability. To do this, we rely on specific features that are unique on the market:
•  the mix of our 3 businesses;
• our organization, allowing us to coordinate all digital professions, including subcontracting;
•  our presence in 18 countries.

Wir sind alle mit viel Power für unsere Kunden am Start! Wie das in unserer Vertriebsadministration Öffentlicher Dienst aussieht, zeigt Lukas Arnold. Er managt, betreut, verwaltet, überwacht und koordiniert für seine Kunden einfach alles rund um ihren Auftrag und die Bereitstellung des gewünschten IT Equipments. Logisch, dass Lukas auch bei Sonderwünschen direkt ans Möglichmachen denkt und auch immer ein Auge auf neue Ausschreibungen wirft.
Wie bei seinem Hobby, der Fotografie, macht er sich gern selbst ein Bild von potentiellen Neukunden und setzt dann im Ausschreibungsverfahren den richtigen Fokus. Mit Erfolg!
Lieber Lukas, herzlichen Dank für Deinen Einsatz!. Bleib so, wie Du bist!