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The renewal of Kmart has begun!

This has been an exciting year for Kmart with a renewed focus on our long-term sustainability. Throughout our business, sustainability covers many areas, including:

• our financial performance,
• our great team members,
• how we support the communities in which we operate,
• ensuring our customers, team members and visitors are safe, and
• reducing our impact on the environment.

This report is the result of many month?s work by teams across our business and provides a detailed summary of our sustainability performance over the past 12 months. There have many highlights this year, including:

• reducing the amount of stock we hold by over $100 million,
• increasing the number of female team members in our leadership team,
• developing a long-term plan to reduce our environmental impact,
• recycling over 80% of our waste, and
• contributing over $11.94 million in community support.

As mentioned above, we have developed a long-term plan to reduce our environmental impact. Our plan covers a range of areas including energy use, water use, recycling, waste, sustainable products and packaging reductions. Every year, we will commit to a number of initiatives that support the plan ? these are discussed at the end of this report.

Our sustainability journey is only just beginning, and I look forward to sharing more information with you over the coming years.

Guy Russo
Managing Director, Kmart