Why we need to take action
Tackling the greatest challenges of our age — human rights, fair payment, environmental and climate protection, hunger and water shortages — will require a powerful lobby. As a traditional family company, we believe in taking responsibility and being part of a movement that takes on these challenges not only with words, but with actions. And that is what we are doing.
Our objective: We strive to do business in a fair and sustainable way and help our customers integrate sustainability into their everyday lives.
We’re ready for the challenge!
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Company
Happy Pride Week
25.07.2024Pride Week starts in Hamburg on July 27th, 2024 - exactly one week before Christopher Street Day (CSD). Tchibo is there! With a colorful program - organized by BEans United, a working group made up of employees that is committed to issues relating to diversity and diversity.
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Coffee
Podcast: Junior farmers in the Tanzania Coffee Clubs
16.07.2024This episode goes to Tanzania and the sustainability project “Tanzania Coffee Clubs”. Here, young farmers learn sustainable coffee cultivation in addition to normal school subjects as part of a school group. Karina Schneider and Aida Guerreiro Brito talk about the project and the school coffee.
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Coffee
Our school coffee, the rarity special edition “Kahawa Skuli” from Tanzania is back
15.07.2024For the second time there is the edition from the "Tanzania Coffee Clubs": In the project, young farmers learn the necessary specialist knowledge at school for environmentally friendly and productive coffee cultivation. The project is implemented in the Mbeya and Mbozi regions of Tanzania.
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Company
Tchibo Sustainability Report 2022/23
02.07.2024In a world full of uncertainty, we as a company are setting an example - for the people in our supply chains, our employees and customers. What have we achieved in the last few years and what are we planning to do? The Tchibo sustainability report answers this for you.
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Coffee
Podcast: 100% coffee from responsible purchasing – how is that supposed to work?
01.07.2024From 2027, ALL Tchibo coffees will come from responsible purchasing. How is that supposed to work? In the new podcast episode, our guest Andrea Gerhard and Pablo von Waldenfels sort through the facts - from climate change to certifications to minimum income.
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Coffee
Tchibo @ World of Coffee on 29.06.2024 in Copenhagen
29.06.2024On Saturday, June 29, 2024, Reena Eddiks was at the World of Coffee in Copenhagen for Tchibo, where, among other things, she was part of a panel of the International Coffee Organization. The topic: Sustainability Mapping.
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Human
Tchibo has also signed individual agreement with IndustriAll to support collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia
27.06.2024For the first time, we have made legally binding purchasing practices commitments to enable higher wages and sound industrial relations in the garment and textile industry. We were supported in this by the ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation) initiative.
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Environment
1 year reusable shipping bag
27.06.2024Last year, in June 2023, we introduced the reusable shipping bag as part of a pilot test. The bags have been in use for a year - with success! We were able to send over 70,000 orders to our customers. Read here what happens next!
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Environment
Clean Up Challenge with management board
18.06.2024Together with the organizationOclean, around 50 Tchibo employees, also including management board, collected garbage in the City Nord and in the Stadtpark on June 18, 2024 as part of our Tchibo Sustainability Week. The result: 134.8 kg of waste collected.
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Environment
Podcast: Tchibo & Secondhand
10.06.2024The Tchibo Share rental platform is history, now things continue with the Sellpy sales platform for used clothing. Kristina, an expert in circulation models at Tchibo, reports on the experiences in the Tchibo podcast “5 cups a day” and gives an outlook on what will happen next.
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Coffee
EUDR-Statement by ICP (International Coffee Partners)
06.06.2024We are part of ICP (International Coffee Partners). Together and consistently, we are committed to a fair and sustainable coffee sector in all coffee producing countries. Read ICP’s statement on EUDR here:
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Coffee
The Tchibo Coffee Report 2024 is here!
04.06.2024Variety enriches. And variety is also the keyword of the new coffee report, which is being published for the 13th time this year. Again, there are amazing facts to discover - also about coffee and sustainability. For example: "Have you ever reused coffee grounds or beans?"
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Human
Tchibo @ re:publica24 on 05/28/2024 in Berlin
28.05.2024Visions for the agricultural transition or business as usual? On May 28, 2024, Pablo von Waldenfels was at re:publica in Berlin for Tchibo. Under the motto #WhoCares, the dialogue is about human rights and corporate responsibility along agricultural supply chains.
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Photo: ECCHR
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Company
Diversity Day 2024
28.05.2024Tchibo is celebrating the 12th German Diversity Day! With raised rainbow flags and a colorful program - organized by BEans United, a working group made up of employees from a wide range of departments that is dedicated to topics related to diversity and variety.
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Environment
Tchibo @ Energy and Environment Summit on 16/17 May 2024 in Berlin
22.05.2024Kristina and Sina were at the Energy and Environment Summit for Tchibo. Her presentation "Together we can do this: Tchibo's perspective on ecological and social challenges" showed our progress in our sector initiatives WE, ZEMBA and Reusable and how you can still be part of them.
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Non Food
Circular Collection
30.04.2024At a meet-up with employees from OTTO, Otto Group, bonprix and Tchibo, everything revolved around circular fashion. The goal: Learning from each other for a circular future in the fashion industry, in which the circular economy is taken into account throughout the entire product life cycle.
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Environment
Successful Completion of ZEMBA's Inaugural Tender
25.04.2024Hapag-Lloyd wins tender for zero-emission shipping services. With the successful tender, we show that corporate cooperation can provide an important impetus for a sustainable future. We are strengthening our ambitions with further rounds of tenders and are hoping for the offer from e-fuels.
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Non Food
Tchibo expands range on second-hand platform Sellpy
24.04.2024Tchibo is expanding its range on the Swedish second-hand platform Sellpy after a successful test run. In addition to items from the discontinued rental service for children's products (Tchibo Share), we now also offer selected returns that can no longer be sold as new goods.
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Environment
Lean and Green 2nd Star: Tchibo receives award for CO2 savings in logistics
03.04.2024We are pleased about the second award for our efforts to save CO2 in Tchibo logistics processes. Back in 2019, Tchibo received the Lean and Green 1st Star for its CO2 reduction of 23 percent at the time. From 2020 to 2022, we reduced greenhouse gases by an additional 17 percent.
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Environment
Repair and replace: spare parts for Esperto fully automatic machines
20.03.2024Repair service, video inspection and spare parts ordering – we are already doing a lot to give our products a long life. Also with our fully automatic machines! From now on we also sell various spare parts for the fully automatic machine individually in our Tchibo webshop.
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Not perfect – but making bold steps in the right direction
What we have achieved to date
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43.300 farmers
in 9 countries have received support through 20 projects delivered under the Tchibo Joint Forces!® farmer programme since 2009. The programme aims to help farmers transition to more sustainable cultivation methods and to improve living standards.
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98 % of our textiles made with cotton
are made from cotton from sustainable sources (organic cotton, GOTS or Cotton made in Africa).
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100 % eco-friendly power for 13 years
at all of our Tchibo sites (headquarters, warehouse, stores and coffee shops).
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134 million
old PET bottles were processed for our 2021 textiles made from recycled materials, saving 5,500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
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98 %
of our product packaging is recyclable.
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8 factories
have been newly included in the WE programme. In total, 432 factories have been involved since 2008, of which 96 factories are participating in the programme at the end of 2021. In 2021, 4,900 workers and managers participated in activities.
Is this enough?
We understand that our company has, for a long time, had a critical role to play when it comes to sustainability. We know that in some areas, Tchibo is still part of the problem. This is why it is all the more important for us to use our design expertise and business knowledge to become a bigger part of the solution with each day that passes.
For us, there is no alternative to fair working conditions, transparency and environmental protection.
The road is a long one, and we are always looking for solutions that will enable us to protect resources and the environment and to safeguard human rights. We are working to fill the gaps – swiftly and creatively.
