Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

Education, humility and lesson-learning are other under- lying qualities of Nowy Styl’s organisational culture. Their immediate ramifications include our company’s growing focus on research and development – developing our own technologies and methods to improve performance. In that spirit, a sustainability policy has emerged and become dis- seminated across our company. When we look back to the early 1990s, we must honestly admit that the issues of cor- porate responsibility were not discussed particularly loudly in Poland at that time. We were one of the first companies to expand business in Western Europe, and we were fo- “ A leader is someone people will follow, someone peo- ple want to work with and someone they trust. Someone genuine. Someone who has good contact with employees and sets an example for them ,” said Adam Krzanowski for Forbes in mid-June 2020. Krzanowski is the president of Nowy Styl and the winner, along with his brother Jerzy, of the Forbes magazine’s 21 st Century Leaders award in 2019. It is not by accident that we are quoting him on that cused on exploring local markets, so we quickly noticed the important role of aspects such as ecology there. Ever since, we have been constantly adapting and transplant- ing best practices to other markets, trying to infect our partners with them and thus expanding the value chain. For this is how we understand responsibility and its role in everything we do, most importantly in providing our cus- tomers with products and services that will allow them to develop with respect and care for the environment, local communities and their own employees. here. At Nowy Styl, managerial titles are used for formali- ty’s sake only. In practice, the Management Board strongly believe in real leadership, a partnership based on dialogue, not dictatorship. Of course, they do run our business and the company’s development, but they try to confirm with their day-to-day decisions that theirs is far from an au- thoritarian approach. 1.3 Organisational culture 1.4 Company management Photo: Forbes 15