About This Report Pure is publishing this inaugural environmental, social Materiality Assessment and governance (ESG) report to inform stakeholders of As part of our Pure Purpose ESG strategy, in early 2021, we conducted our our sustainability progress and ambitions, and commits first materiality assessment to identify and prioritize our most important to reporting our progress annually moving forward. ESG topics and impacts. Although we have always been committed We see ESG reporting as an important tool through which to creating the best outcomes for our stakeholders, this assessment we evaluate our performance and identify future opportunities enables us to focus our efforts where we will be most impactful. for improvement. We created this ESG report through a series Conducted by a third-party ESG consultancy, the assessment gathered and of interviews and reviews with subject matter experts and synthesized feedback from our top leaders and various key stakeholder groups, leaders from across the various functions of our business. including investors, customers and partners. We used this stakeholder feedback We aligned this report with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to prioritize our most important areas of impact. In addition to prioritizing ESG Standards and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board topics, the assessment provided valuable insight on ESG risks and opportunities, (SASB) Hardware Industry Standards to adopt best practices which we used to refine our management practices and align on the future and meet stakeholder expectations. This inaugural report vision and roadmap of our ESG program. At the end of the assessment, we validated our top material ESG topics with our leadership team. These top covers ESG data, initiatives and activities from February 1, 2019 five material topics form the foundation of our ESG program and report. (FY20) to January 31, 2021 (FY21). Our ESG report is reviewed and approved by our Chairman and CEO, Charles Giancarlo. • Energy, Emissions and Climate Resilience For more information about our ESG programs or this report, • Data Security and Privacy please contact our ESG program at [email protected]. • Ethical Business Practices • Talent Acquisition, Retention & Development • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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