FSC® Stands for Transparency.
The continuation of global forest destruction poses one of the most urgent challenges of our time, the significance of which extends beyond the International Year of Forests 2011.
”Otto Group has incorporated sustainability principles in all business areas and actively advocates sustainable forestry. In this endeavor, Otto Group supports the FSC who pioneered a path of transparency, accountability and ambitious targets. We do business with over 60 FSC certified printing plants and paper suppliers; we initiated more than 480 FSC projects ranging from catalogues to packaging materials that display the FSC logo in 13 different languages. SCA is to us an integral supplier of FSC certified paper and cartons and we are looking forward to continuing our partnership with SCA along this challenging path.”
Olaf Dechow, Otto Group
The Otto Group
The Otto Group is a leading international trading and services corporation, whose 123 major companies and 50,000 employees in 20 countries do business in a worldwide network. A combination of retail, financial services and other services allows the group to serve its customers as a reliable partner.
The individual company OTTO was established in 1949 by Werner Otto as ‘Otto Versand’ and is still the core of the Otto Group. The company’s development is an unparalleled success story of Germany’s post-war period.
The catalogue business, e-commerce and over-the-counter retail are the three pillars of the multichannel retailer OTTO, with the promising online business being consistently expanded.
OTTO produces two main catalogues a year, which are supplemented by around 60 special catalogues including the prize-winning catalogues ‘Brand New – Fashion, Brands, Cities’ (Brandneu – Mode, Marken, Metropolen) and ‘Mea – Fashion, Emotions, Ambience’ (Mea – Mode, Emotionen, Ambiente).