The design of our product range is a top priority for us as a retail company: if the goods we offer are attractive to our customers, HORNBACH can be economically successful and provide jobs and livelihoods for tens of thousands of people.

The product ranges HORNBACH offers its customers to buy are becoming increasingly socially relevant. This is also due to the fact that aspects such as the origin of products, their components, and the production conditions under which articles are manufactured are becoming increasingly important for our customers.

We are therefore constantly evolving our product range with sustainability in mind. The product range offered by the HORNBACH Group is intended to enable customers to take ecological, health-related, and social aspects into account when making their purchases. For HORNBACH, these include, for example:

• Offering low-emission products in order to minimise pollution in the living environment
• Advice and information on the energy and water-saving functions of our products
• Avoiding controversial or environmentally critical products such as herbicides containing glyphosate or plants that have been cultivated with neonicotinoids (bee protection)
• Ensuring all items made from tropical woods are labelled with the FSC^® seal as proof of environmentally and socially responsible forestry

• Ensuring that timber and wood products originating in the European Union come from sustainably and socially responsible managed forests
• HORNBACH prefers to purchase timber and timber products from the European Union which have valid FSC^® certification. In the case of the Romania growing region, a valid FSC^® seal is a prerequisite for purchasing
• All direct import suppliers and their factory sites are audited at regular intervals with regard to environmental and social standards. Our suppliers’ upstream suppliers are required by our suppliers to comply with the standards

Further information on the role of sustainability in our product range can be found here in German.