About this Report
VTech published its first Sustainability Report for the financial year 2013.
The purpose of the report was not only to communicate our sustainability
strategies, management approaches and performances with our
stakeholders, but also comprehensively introduce our ongoing activities
for our sustainable development towards the societies and environment in
which we operate.
VTech considers sustainability as a direction for our long-term development.
In our Sustainability Report 2017, we not only continued to follow the Core
option of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting G4
Guidelines (G4 Guidelines) and its principles of balance, comparability,
accuracy, timeliness, clarity and reliability, but also made reference to the
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Stock Exchange) Environmental,
Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting Guide (ESG Guide)
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to define our
report content. In order to identify and assess the material concerns of
our stakeholders, we have also conducted materiality assessment surveys
through a number of stakeholder engagement activities to determine the
factors that have material impacts on our sustainable growth, and included
them in the summary of our sustainability strategies and targets.
Reporting Period and Scope
The scope of this report includes data and activities from our headquarters
in Hong Kong, our three manufacturing facilities in China and overseas sales
offices, unless specifically stated otherwise. During the financial year 2017
(FY2017), VTech has completed the acquisition of LeapFrog Enterprises Inc
(LeapFrog), a very strong educational toy brand in the industry and Snom
Technology GmbH (Snom), the pioneer and a leading brand of professional
and enterprise Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones. VTech also
acquired the fixed assets from Kenny Precision Products (Shenzhen)
Company Limited for the production of high precision metal tooling and
parts. There were no other significant changes in VTech’s operation
locations, share capital structure, or our supply chain structure.
Reporting period: FY2017 (1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017), as per the
financial period of our Annual Report 2017. The Sustainability Report is
issued on an annual basis.
Organisation covered: VTech Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries
(the Company).
Assurance
This report was subject to VTech’s internal audit process and reviewed by
the Company’s Audit Committee.
Reference Guidelines
GRI G4 guidelines
Stock Exchange ESG Guide
Full details of the VTech Sustainability Report 2017 are available on
https://www.vtech.com/en/sustainability/1 Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting Guide set out in Appendix 27 to the
Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited