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4 AN EFFICIENT AND RESPONSIBLE GROUP
4. The Group’s contribution to local and societal development
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and societal development
The Group’s contribution to local 4.
CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONS 4.1
the creation of shared value
Socio-economic footprint: towards 4.1.1
Allocation of Saint-Gobain's turnover and value added to its
stakeholders indicates amounts distributed in wages paid to
employees, purchases expenses to suppliers, dividends to
shareholders or taxes and duties paid to the State.
NET
SALES
€39,093m
VALUE
ADDED
€12,361m
SUPPLIERS AND
OTHER INTERMEDIARY
EXPENSES
€26,732m
SALARIES AND OTHER
PERSONAL COMPENSATION
€7,818m
63.25%
INNOVATIVE MATERIALS
25%
CONSTRUCTION
PRODUCTS
28%
BUILDING
DISTRIBUTION
47%
PORTION HELD
FOR GROWTH
€1,936m
15.66%
INVESTMENTS IN
LOCAL COMMUNITIES
€6,3m
0.05% INTEREST REPAYMENT
€369m
2.99% DIVIDENDS PAID
€712m
5.76% TAXES AND DUTIES
€672m
5.44% RETIREMENT
CONTRIBUTIONS
€848m
6.86%
contribution to public services funding, return for investors.
These distributed amounts can be translated into social value:
purchasing power and employee’s skills improvement, jobs
perpetuation for suppliers and the entire set of supply chains,
well as in supplier’s labor pools. Saint-Gobain’s employment
footprint can thus be calculated at three levels:
Saint-Gobain also participates to economic and industrial
dynamics in regions where the Group has established sites, as
direct jobs, which take into account the Group’s paid ‹
employment ;
indirect jobs, which take into account employment ‹
generated by purchases of the Group among its suppliers
and subcontractors ;
to the extent of their solicitation in the purchasing frame
of the Group.
triggered by purchases within the national economy made
by direct employees of the Group through the wages they
receive and by the employees of Saint-Gobain’s suppliers
induced job, which take into account employment ‹
induced jobs. The study covered the 2015 data and includes
more than 90% of the Group's purchases.
In 2016, Saint-Gobain has updated and extended the indirect
jobs study. Driven by EY, this study henceforth also concerns
549 000 indirect jobs, to which are added over 190 000
induced jobs.
For 170 500 direct jobs in 2015, the Group generates over