Sustainability

Seyidoğlu Automotive Sustainability Policy

We Consider It Our Duty to Work Towards Sustainable Automotive Management, Circular Living, and Contribution to the Economy!

Reducing the negative effects of climate change and leaving a livable world for future generations by keeping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and contributing to our country's 2053 net-zero carbon target, is crucial for all organizations in the automotive sector's value chain, given that exhaust emissions from automobiles, trucks, and light commercial vehicles constitute approximately 75% of all carbon emissions from mobility. Considering the increasing use of renewable energy in the automotive sector and the growing trend towards sustainability and environmentally friendly spare parts in automotive production, we review our activities and consider working in line with changing trends in the sector important for the sustainability of our competitiveness.

As Seyidoğlu Automotive, we are the leading automotive spare parts supplier in our country in the integration of automotive logistics and supply chain. In line with our mission to be a stakeholder-focused and environmentally conscious company that produces solutions aligned with changing trends for a sustainable future in the automotive sector, we consider it our duty to place “Sustainability” at the center of our business strategies and transform it into a part of our corporate culture. Aware of the importance of contributing to creating a more sustainable world, we recognize that improving our sustainability performance in our own operations and value chain, and contributing to sustainable development, is our leadership responsibility.

In this context, in terms of a sustainable world and our corporate sustainability:

• Analyzing the impact of our activities on climate change, identifying risks and opportunities, determining targets and actions, planning our resources accordingly, and ensuring their effective implementation,

• Providing sustainable spare parts to the sector by researching and supplying technologies that will reduce carbon emissions throughout the automotive life cycle, and contributing to the sector's carbon reduction targets,

• Contributing to increasing the variety of parts based on sustainable technologies by collaborating with our suppliers with high innovative production capabilities,

• Increasing the preference for innovative and sustainable solutions by collaborating with our customers,

• Maximizing energy efficiency in our warehouses, service centers, and offices, and obtaining electricity from renewable energy sources or at least producing enough to meet our total needs,

• Monitoring our carbon footprint in line with our country's green transformation policies and the 2053 Carbon Neutral target, reporting it in accordance with international standards, initiating improvements to achieve reduction targets, and continuous improvement,

• Monitoring the carbon footprint in our supply chain and • To ensure that our suppliers also take actions to reduce the amount of carbon emissions resulting from embodied emissions that we procure by supplying them,

• To structure and implement our corporate risk management, business continuity management, crisis management, and emergency management processes, making them a part of our way of doing business and transforming them into our corporate culture,

• To implement a fair and accessible management policy for everyone by ensuring the participation of our employees,

• To ensure equal opportunity and diversity in our company,

• To continuously improve the working environment, support the personal development and training of our employees, and keep employee well-being, health, safety, and therefore commitment at the highest level,

• To support the participation of our stakeholders by taking into account their wishes and expectations in our decision-making processes, and to carry out joint trainings and projects that will increase their sustainability awareness,

• To provide training to increase the awareness of our employees in order to make the sustainability perspective a part of the company culture, to monitor sustainability-related indicators in the monitoring of the performance of our management teams, and to ensure the participation of our management teams and employees in achieving our sustainability goals, to achieve together,

• To operate in accordance with our business ethics and ethical principles in a transparent collaboration with our employees and stakeholders. We aim to:

• Develop our corporate structure and develop and effectively implement policies aimed at acquiring and maintaining the competencies that will ensure corporate sustainability,

• Ensure compliance with national and international legislation and standards covering all our activities and to continuously improve our sustainability performance by regularly publishing our sustainability report.

Our Board of Directors is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the implementation of our Sustainability Policy and ensuring the effectiveness of its implementation.