Climate Change Data

Hudson Ltd.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019)

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Target improved profitability by leveraging our fixed costs and investments
Medium-term Goals:
  • Expand concession portfolio
  • Continue expansion into non-traditional locations
  • Grow food and beverage platform
  • Pursue accretive acquisitions
Short-term Goals:
  • Increase sales at existing concessions
  • Refurbish and convert existing stores

Environmental Challenges

  • Factors outside our control that cause a reduction in airline passenger traffic, including terrorist attacks and natural disasters
  • Changes in general economic and market conditions
  • Competition among participants in the travel retail market
  • Loss of and competition to obtain and renew concessions
  • Changes by airport authorities or airlines that lower the number of passengers in the terminals in which we have concessions
  • Ability to execute our growth strategy effectively to integrate successfully any new concessions or future acquisitions into our business and to remodel existing concessions
  • Ability to successfully expand into the food and beverage concession industry
  • Dependence on our controlling shareholder to provide us with key services and to finance our operations
  • Dependence on our local partners
  • Changes in the taxation of goods or duty-free regulations in the markets in which we operate
  • Adverse impacts of compliance or legal matters
  • Restrictions on the duty-free sale of tobacco products and on smoking in general that affect our tobacco product sales
  • Changes in customer preferences or demands
  • The future travel habits of our customers and potential changes in transportation safety requirements
  • Reliance on a limited number of suppliers
  • Disruption in our supply chain
  • Information technology systems failure or disruption
  • Ability to attract and retain qualified personnel
  • Litigation
  • Material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, if we are unable to remediate such material weakness
  • The concentration of our operations in New York and other metropolitan areas
  • Ability to borrow from banks or raise funds in the capital markets
  • Our controlling shareholder’s control over us
Mitigation Strategies
  • Initiated remedial measures and are taking additional measures to fully remediate the procure to pay process material weakness
  • Implemented accounts payable software designed to automate and streamline invoice processing
  • Implemented a new invoice approval matrix
  • Implemented new controls to strengthen the vendor set-up and maintenance process
  • Implemented new controls over the review and approval of invoices for payment
  • Plan to enhance application user access provisioning and termination controls and segregation of duties analyses
  • Plan to enhance monitoring to strengthen application change, configuration, and back-up management controls
  • Plan to provide enhanced training to information technology personnel

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: IFRS

Third-party Assurance: Ernst & Young AG