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