Kingfisher : Performance data appendix 2022/23

At Kingfisher, we are committed to having a positive impact on society. We bring our customers products to create greener, healthier homes and we take action to help our communities, forests and the planet to flourish.

We are committed to lead our industry in Responsible Business and energy efficiency, with a focus on four areas: being an inclusive company; helping to tackle climate change and becoming Forest Positive; making greener and healthier homes affordable; and working with charity partners to fix bad housing.

About this appendix

Our Responsible Business Performance Data Appendix provides a detailed insight into our environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

It supplements our Responsible Business Report 2022/23, providing detailed data and a summary of progress against our targets.

Our Appendix summarises how our reporting aligns with external frameworks including the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

You can read our Responsible Business Report at www.kingfisher.com/responsible-business.

Our disclosure against the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and a report by our Responsible Business Committee are included in our Annual Report and Accounts.

About Kingfisher

Kingfisher plc is an international home improvement company with over 1,9001 stores in eight countries across Europe. Our purpose is to help make better homes accessible for everyone.

We operate under retail banners including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, TradePoint and Koçtaş, supported by a team of 82,0001 colleagues.

We offer home improvement products and services to consumers and trade professionals through our stores and e-commerce channels.

Contents

1. Our Responsible Business strategy
2. About our data
3. How we performed in 2022/23

1. Progress against targets
2. Governance
3. Our business and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

12 United Nations Global Compact index

1. Sustainability Accounting Standards Board index

1. Detailed performance data
2. Colleagues: We will be a more inclusive company

1. Planet: We will help tackle climate change

1. Planet: We will become Forest Positive

26 Customers: We will help make greener, healthier homes affordable

1. Communities: We will fight to fix bad housing

1. Fundamentals: Employee safety
2. Fundamentals: Responsible sourcing

1. Fundamentals: Waste, recycling and water
2. Assurance statement

We've been prioritising Responsible Business practices for over three decades. Today, Responsible Business is a key part of our 'Powered by Kingfisher' strategy and we're integrating it into everything we do.

Our Responsible Business

Fundamentals

Our four priorities are underpinned by our Responsible Business Fundamentals - the issues and impacts we measure and manage to ensure we continue to operate responsibly across our business. We have clear policies and guidance in each of these areas.

Our four priorities

Our Responsible Business priorities

Our four Responsible Business priorities focus on the issues where we can use our size and scale to bring about positive change for our customers, colleagues, communities and the planet.

We have set ambitious targets and we monitor progress against an established set of KPIs. Now into the third year of delivery, we've continued to make progress.

Our four priorities were selected based on customer research findings, the output of our materiality assessment and external

Colleagues

We will be a more inclusive company

Our commitment

We will be a more inclusive company, by breaking down barriers to employment and progression, and by building skills for life.

Planet

We will help tackle climate change and become Forest Positive

Our commitment

We will help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions from our business, products and supply chains; and we continue our journey to become Forest Positive by focusing on responsible sourcing and investing in forest projects.

Customers

We will help make greener, healthier homes affordable

Our commitment

We will help customers have a greener, healthier home - one that is resource- efficient, uses planet-friendly materials and is free from harmful chemicals.

Communities

We will fight to fix bad housing

Our commitment

We will donate our products, expertise and time to help people whose housing needs are greatest in the communities we serve.

frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our targets and measurement approach have been developed with leading sustainability organisation Bioregional.

Our Responsible Business Fundamentals

Our Responsible Business data covers the period 1 February 2022 - 31 January 2023, except where stated. It provides a summary of performance for all our wholly-owned retail banners.

Bioregional coordinate our head office data review process and monitor our progress on Sustainable Home Product innovation.

Detailed information on the scope of the data and the methodologies used to calculate our data are explained in our Responsible Business Data Collection Methodologydocument.

Our Responsible Business data does not include joint ventures and franchises, except where stated. Data for our joint venture Koçtaş is included in our scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, category 15 'Investments' (see page 21). 50% of Koçtaş data is included, in line with our 50% equity share.

Our targets and methodologies have been developed with Bioregional. Wherever possible they reflect established frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Details of how our targets have been developed and our methodology for assessing progress are included in our Data Collection Methodology.

Audit and assurance

Our Responsible Business performance data and the qualitative statements included in our Annual Report and Accounts, Responsible Business Report and Performance Data Appendix are reviewed by our internal Responsible Business teams, and by Bioregional.

We appointed DNV to provide a limited assurance opinion on selected information within this report. The information marked throughout the report with the symbol ◊ indicates the scope of their work.

Further details on the work they performed and their conclusion are set out in their independent assurance statement on page 35.

Reporting frameworks

We are members of the United Nations Global Compact and include an index on pages

12-13. We aim to support progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and include an index on pages 8-11 indicating where we can have the most impact.

We are aligning our reporting with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards for Multiline and Speciality Retailers and Distributors. Our SASB Index shows where relevant data and disclosures can be found.

Our disclosure against the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), is included in our Annual Report and Accountspage 27.

We disclose our performance to CDP and the Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI). Our Report references selected Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) Standards. We provide a GRI Index on our website: www.kingfisher.com/ griindex.

We improved or maintained performance across the majority of our targets in 2022/23.

A more inclusive company

We continue to implement our Group and banner Inclusion and Diversity action plans. We reached 25.8% women in senior leadership, an increase on the previous year (2021/22: 25.2%). The portion of women managers increased to 38.9% (2021/22: 37.9%). We are on track to meet our goal of 40% women in all management roles by 2025/26 but have more to do to reach gender balance in senior leadership.

We have provided 6.6 million hours of skills for life learning since 2019/20, reaching our target of 5 million two years ahead of schedule. During the year we had 2,970 colleagues enrolled on apprenticeship courses and 1,703 apprenticeships completed across the Group. In 2023/24 we will be setting new goals for the business focusing on apprenticeships and learning.

Helping to tackle climate change and becoming Forest Positive

We have reduced our absolute greenhouse gas emissions from our operations by 52.6% since 2016/17, against our target of 37.8%.

This is our first step towards achieving net zero carbon by 2040/41 and means we are currently exceeding our operational emissions target. The reduction this year is due to the purchase of renewable electricity as well as actions such as the roll-out of LED lighting, installation of air source heat pumps and use of alternative fuels in our fleet. Additional measures included lowering store temperatures and adjusting lighting. A milder winter also contributed to the decrease in energy consumption.

We have established our Group Climate Committee, chaired by our Chief Executive, and focused on improving our scope 3 data to enable us to extend our net zero target to cover our whole value chain.

We have reduced the intensity of our emissions from the supply chain and customer use of products by 34.1% since 2017/18, meaning we are on track to meet our scope 3 reduction target of 40% by 2025/26.

94.5% of the wood and paper used in our products was responsibly sourced (2021/22: 87.2%) and 100% catalogue paper.

We are a founder member of Rainforest Alliance Forest Allies initiative (from 2021), investing in projects in our key tropical sourcing regions. We're investing US$750,000 over three years to support six projects,

which cover some 190,000 hectares of community managed forests, and contribute towards the protection of more than 2,500,000 hectares of protected areas. Four banners are now supporting local forest projects including supporting the Woodland Trust in the UK, Reforest'Action in France and Poland's State Forests.

Making greener, healthier homes affordable

In 2022/23, 46.8% of total Group sales were from products helping to create greener, healthier homes (2021/22:

44.1%), putting us on track to our overall Sustainable Home Products (SHP) target.

SHP accounted for 56.4% of sales for our Own Exclusive Brand (OEB) ranges (2021/22: 54.7%). We need to accelerate progress to meet the OEB element of our target.

Sales of our SHP generated £6.2 billion for our business in 2022/23 - a 49% increase over the last three years.

The energy crisis and rising bills across much of Europe saw energy saving products in particularly high demand with 10.6% of sales from energy and water saving products.

We expanded our ranges of renewable energy products and launched energy

saving services in the UK and France to help householders understand what they can do within their budgets to make their homes more efficient and affordable.

Removing peat

Removing peat from our garden ranges is one of the most important actions we can take to help tackle climate change. B&Q, our biggest seller of peat in terms of sales volume (around 77% of our total), sold their final bag of peat-based compost in October 2022 and reached 97% peat-free over the year. We're now working to remove peat from all our Own Exclusive Brand bagged growing media Group-wide.

In 2022/23, 78% of bagged growing media across the Group was peat-free. This includes our own brand GoodHome peat- free compost.

Chemicals management

We're working with suppliers and partners to: phase out substances which are very likely to become restricted by law in future years, ahead of regulation; switch to more sustainable chemicals that are better for customers and the environment; and to achieve transparency about the chemicals used in our products with an initial focus on OEB chemical products such as sealants and paint.