A variety of essential services and a business model designed to create long-term value for its shareholders through the creation of shared value. Corporate purpose has entered the bylaws and is the reference point for sustainability strategy and reporting.
The corporate purpose is the reference for defining the guidelines to the Hera Group’s strategy. There are five strategic references that characterize the development path for generating shareholder value and creating shared value: profitability and financial sustainability; resilience to increasingly frequent and intense exogenous phenomena; carbon neutrality; resource regeneration; social equity andprosperity. The pursuit of these strategic references leverages the support offered by innovation and digitization. Sustainability thus pervades the strategy of Hera Group, and purposedriven sustainability reporting supports its pursuit.
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Hera Group’s positioning in Italy
1ST WASTE MANAGEMENT OPERATOR
by waste treated (8.5 million tonnes)
2ND WATER CYCLE OPERATOR
by volumes supplied (285 million m3)
3RD ENERGY SALES OPERATOR
by customers served (over 4.6 million)
4TH GAS DISTRIBUTION OPERATOR
by volumes supplied (2.3 billion m3)
4TH ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION OPERATOR
by volumes supplied (2.7 thousand GWh)
5TH PUBLIC LIGHTING OPERATOR
in 226 municipalities (645 thousand lighting points)