1.3_ Towards a sustainability strategy The De'Longhi Group's sustainability reporting process, launched last year with the 2017 NonFinancial Consolidated Statement (NFS) and continued with the 2017 Sustainability Report and 2018 NFS, allowed the Company to measure and understand its sustainability performance and made it aware of the need to undertake a structured and more sustainable integration of sustainability in its business model with the aim of defining concrete actions consistent with the Group's strategy to mitigate and improve its impacts and generate value for the company and its stakeholders over the long term.