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Process for weighting the impacts
A workshop was held in December 2017 with around 20 external and RBI-internal participants with the
appropriate professional expertise and chaired by external experts, in order to arrive at expert-based weighting
and determination of the impacts of RBI’s business activities on the economy, environment and society. The impacts
on the material topics were identified in two discussion groups. All workshop participants then anonymously
assessed the material topics, and particularly the extent of the impacts thereof. The results were then ranked and
subjected to critical review. In a follow-up meeting, the Group Sustainability Management Team, together with
the external experts, determined and discussed further important impacts that have not yet been achieved.
The adapted materiality matrix provides the following picture of the topics that our internal and external
stakeholders perceived as being most relevant, as well as the weighting of the impacts of internal and external
experts. The x-axis shows how relevant the topics are for RBI while the y-axis shows their relevance for the external
stakeholders. The number of circles illustrates the importance of significant impacts of a topic for the economy, the
environment and society. To be sure, this does not indicate whether this impact is positive or negative.
Materiality matrix with weighted impacts of RBI
(including with regard to evaluations and decisions by the stakeholder groups)
The results of the materiality survey show what our Sustainability Management must focus on in the future. Our
sustainability program has been modified accordingly.
Relevance for external stakeholder groups
Sustainability of Products & Services
Commitment to society
and environment
Work
environment
Inhouse ecology
Organizational
management
Economic added value
Relevance for RBI
Very
high
The number of circles for the individual topics reflects the significance of the economic, environmental and social impacts:
Low: Average: High: Very high: