GreenFlex Retail

Retail

Brands, companies and retailers can take action to improve their environmental footprint while optimising their profitability. Find out how

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According to the GreenFlex-ADEME responsible consumption barometer, in 2023, 78% of French people are committed to responsible consumption. Consumers, who are becoming increasingly enlightened and informed, expect brands, companies and distributors to guide them in their choices to consume less and better. 

You work for a retail, supermarket or specialist distribution business and are faced with a dual challenge: 

  1. Improve your environmental footprint
  • Ensuring the comfort of customers and staff: controlling your BMS/CGT systems for thermal comfort, installing appropriate lighting systems for visual comfort, etc. 
  • Comply with regulations: F-Gas directive, CSRD, etc. 
  • Propose a more responsible product offering to meet consumer expectations, whether for products you manufacture yourself or those you distribute: responsible purchasing strategy and charter, eco-design of products and packaging, point-of-sale communication, etc. 
  • Reducing waste and turning it into a resource: solutions for reusing, sorting, storing, recovering and recycling waste. 
  1. Reduce your costs and improve your profitability
  • Playing an active role in supplying local areas, providing new services and making shops more attractive: installing charging points for electric vehicles and solar panels on car park roofs, raising awareness of energy renovation, soft mobility delivery systems and extending the range of services that can be offered at home, promoting short circuits and local products, etc. 
  • Reduce your costs: energy consumption and bills, maintenance costs for energy-intensive equipment 
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GreenFlex is here to help: 

  • Build a prioritised roadmap to achieve your regulatory objectives or those of your organisation, taking into account financial (costs, economic and energy gains), social and environmental aspects (work on occupied sites, thermal and visual comfort for your employees and customers, maximising the volume of CO₂ emissions avoided, etc.). 
  • Propose a more responsible offering by helping you to decipher consumer expectations and supporting you in the transformation of your brands and products (responsible brand strategy, responsible purchasing, etc.). 
  • Implementing and managing your action plan through project management assistance for one-off actions (installation of charging stations for electric vehicles or photovoltaic production systems), or through an Energy Management Contract (EMC) or Energy Performance Contract (EPC) for a long-term commitment to reducing your energy consumption. 
  • Financing your actions by identifying and obtaining subsidies (White Certificates) and offering you third-party financing solutions for the remainder of the cost: flexibility and scalability of equipment, without impacting your cash flow and debt capacity. 
  • Monitor your energy and environmental performance and your action plan on our GreenFlexIQ platform

GreenFlex is also: 

  • A single point of contact to help you take a holistic approach (energy efficiency, charging stations, renewable energies, waste management) and maximise your financial and environmental gains. 
  • 20 branches in France and Europe to be as close as possible to your shops 
  • Over 11 years’ experience in energy performance solutions, financing and sustainable development 
  • +310 experts in sustainable development, decarbonization and energy efficiency to advise and deploy your projects across a wide range of expertise (carbon, electricity, heating, cooling, circular economy, responsible products and consumption, etc.) and equipment (lighting, HVAC, photovoltaic panels, refrigeration units, electric vehicle charging stations, etc.). 
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Your key contact

Sandrine Pozo, Director of the Tertiary Business Unit