Lubomir Nokov, co-founder and manager of Harmonika

Last year at the Forbes Business Award we received an award for a socially responsible company, mainly because of our efforts to clean up the Struma River, and this year we are in third place in the Green Company of 2024 category. This is linked to our long-standing efforts to work with climate and biodiversity in mind. Reducing our ecological footprint is part of all the decisions we make – for products, production, transport, warehouses.

We are far from being a clean and green company, we cannot completely eliminate the effect of our operations, but we try to reduce it as much as possible.

The award is perhaps for the example we are trying to set that in Bulgaria it is possible to work with care for the environment and be successful.

Harmonica with care for the environment

The main impact we have is through our products. We try to work with farmers to preserve biodiversity by building on the high standards of organic production. Wherever possible, we now use electricity from greenhouse-emission-free sources. Our warehouses are on 100% clean energy. We measure emissions from all three scopes, looking for opportunities to reduce them. We are working hard on reducing waste from production. We are also working on optimizing our transportation, packaging, logistics and delivery organization.

Last year, we allocated 6% of profits, as well as time and products, to support various environmental initiatives related to climate and biodiversity.

Our Clean Struma project is now a separate association that is attracting a lot of support and achieving its goals.

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