Environment
Symbiosis
Gamania recognizes “environmental symbiosis” as one of its core values, and takes extensive actions to convey sustainability, environmental protection, and green operations among employees and form a strong sustainable culture. We look forward to seeing our employees become advocates for our sustainability values, and help spread these values to greater influence.
Gamania’s suppliers are mostly for the procurement of electronic equipment and sundry items. The “supplier management policy“is in place to work with suppliers toward adopting sustainable practices and reducing impact on the environment. All suppliers are required to sign a “Supplier CSR Commitment“when contracting with the Company to ensure partners’ compliance with environmental, labor, and human rights rules. In addition, suppliers are subject to assessment, management and evaluation.
Sundry purchases such as computer hardware, toilet paper, photocopying paper, water dispensers, and office supply have been prioritized toward environment-friendly, ISO-certified, and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certified products. In the future, decomposable eco-friendly products will be covered in the scope of assessment for sundry purchases, and the sustainability risk assessment will be included in the purchase of property. In 2024, the Company was awarded the “2024 Buying Power Service Procurement Award” by the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. This award encourages central and local government agencies, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises and organizations to take the lead in purchasing products or services from social innovation organizations, assist social innovation organizations in obtaining resources and exploring market opportunities, practice responsible consumption and production, and promote innovative
cooperation between businesses and social innovation organizations.
PEFC certification ensures that wood and non-wood products are produced at the highest ecological, social and moral standards. Gamania adopts PEFC certification as a way to enforce sustainable practices.
According to Gamania’s Procurement Management Regulations, the General Affairs Procurement Department annually selects key suppliers to be evaluated in the year based on the number of transactions, transaction amount, and importance. The procurement unit must review the items listed in the supplier evaluation form, including quality, timeliness, and customer complaint handling, etc., and handle relevant matters according to the supplier evaluation bylaws. Suppliers that have already shown abnormalities during cooperation while still in cooperation with the Company must be particularly prioritized for evaluation. After the supplier evaluation results are confirmed and signed by the head of the responsible unit, they can be used by procurement personnel as the basis for future supplier selection. In 2024, a total of 10 suppliers underwent risk assessment, accounting for 10.2% of all our suppliers.
Scoring rules
Procurement personnel must investigate the cooperation records in the past or market reviews, and record the comments in the supplier evaluation form as the basis for supplier evaluation in the following years.
The supplier evaluation items include quality, timeliness, services, price, etc. In 2023, ESG implementation was additionally included as a standard for bonus points. The above items must be clearly recorded in the evaluation form, and the evaluation results shall be determined by the department head.
Evaluation results
If a supplier has been evaluated as “to be individually evaluated” (less than 3 points) for two consecutive years, the cooperation therewith will be terminated.
Supplier management rules
Exit rules
When a supplier’s quality has been abnormal for many times and made the Company suffer losses, while the supplier has no intention to improve or has been listed as a suspended/terminated supplier, business dealings therewith shall be suspended. If the business relationship therewith still needs to be maintained for special reasons, the consent of the relevant responsible head is required.
If the supplier is the only supplier or an irreplaceable supplier, the Company shall pay more attention to the improvement effect while actively seeking other suppliers.
If a supplier is evaluated as below standard or meets the criteria of regulations regarding the listing of suppliers for special control (e.g. the parent company’s supplier management policy or other relevant management regulations), the relevant units shall be notified of the response plan, and the corresponding control mechanism shall be implemented.
Eat while saving the planet! Carbon reduction revolution of “Green Dining” – Gama Island
Gama Island is Gamania’s employee cafeteria. As a comfortable and well-lit dining space that can be used for resting, meetings, exhibitions, forums, and press conferences, it is a very important “cultural asset” to Gamania. Gamania values employees’ health. The specially hired chefs are responsible for quality control in catering, and carefully select suppliers with government certification and qualification marks; for example, vegetables and fruits have the GAP logo, and meat products have the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency’s slaughter hygiene qualification seal.
The diner offers tasty and healthy menus that are catered to employees’ preference; and changes them on a weekly basis. The Company offers meal subsidies to employees and engages nutrition experts to design healthy meals that ensure pleasant taste and employees’ health at the same time. A perfect workplace supply station has thereby be created; this is one of the employee welfare measures that Gamania is most proud of. In addition, Gama Island conducts an annual employee satisfaction survey in the aspects of environmental hygiene, speed and efficiency, fronted service, meal contents, etc. to listen to employees’
voices. In 2024, the overall satisfaction rate reached 83.77%, an increase of 1.34 percentage points compared to the previous year.
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In favor of the ESG philosophy, we have joined the “Green Dining Guide” initiative and anchored our business to the spirit of “Green Food Declaration.” Gama Island insists on purchasing green food, such as ingredients from local organic smallholders and egg farmers, traceable vegetables, etc. In addition, Gama Island also grows its own vegetables at its IG Farm, using a variety of seasonal ingredients to create delicious delicacies.
In response to the ESG trend, Gama Island has eliminated the use of disposable tableware since five years ago, and has hired professional cleaners that wash the tableware with good efficiency to save dishwashing detergent and water resources. It is calculated that around 340,000 units of disposable tableware can be reduced per month. Meanwhile, Gama Island provides no takeaway services, fully adopts an electronic checkout system, and implements strict control over waste management.
Gama Island was recognized in the 3rd Green Dining Annual Awards Ceremony, the most iconic green restaurant evaluation in Taiwan co-sponsored by Taipei Cultural Exploration Association and Green Dining Guide. Gamania won the 3rd “Corporate Pioneer in Green Dining” in the corporate category.
We have also won the “Eco-friendly Restaurant” certification of the Ministry of Environment, Executive Yuan for our efforts in reducing waste from the source (not providing disposable tableware), using local ingredients (preferentially using domestically produced ingredients), and implementing food appreciation ordering (providing a meal portion adjustment service). In recent years, many companies that have set up employee cafeterias have visited us for opinion exchange and following. We are also determined to build a platform for sharing catering resources in Taiwan to exert our influence in depth.
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Gamania is a comprehensive technology business that does not self-produce
any physical products. However, for festivals, we make our own “Good Time
Man” (formerly “Q Brick”) and send them to external partners as thank-you
gifts that represent us and symbolize the friendship and maintain our sustainable
partnerships. Good Time Man is the brand ambassador of Gamania; over
the years, the production and design thereof have been innovative, trendy,
and relatable to current events. In response to the trend of environmental sustainability,
we have integrated environmental protection elements in the development,
design and distribution logistics of the products since 2020.
To perpetuate our corporate brand culture, we keep optimizing all the details of the gifts year after year, declaring to external parties and stakeholders through green design that we take ESG issues seriously! For the remaining Good Time Man figures that were not given away, Gamania works with the New Taipei City Government to give them to children in rural areas as the incentives. In 2024, we continued to use sustainable materials to produce Good Time Man. For gift delivery, using recycled PET bottles and glass-made recycled logistics bags -Re-Bags instead of disposable plastic bags for delivery, in conjunction with the return process of 7-11 convenience stores to complete the entire recycling process. In 2024, a total of 3,266 recycled logistics bags were used, and 1,065 recycled logistics bags were recycled. The average recycling rate reached approximately 32%.
Gamania supports the mindset of green building and smart building. When leasing or purchasing real estate, we make sustainability issue assessment based on the details of design, decoration, site selection, and so on. The office of the Original Creation Center newly leased in August 2023 went through four major stages: “planning and design, building material application and management, decoration and environmental management, and final acceptance.” It also met 28 healthy design indicators, and was certified by the “Certificate of Green Design” of GGCB.
In the same year, to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction while taking care of the health of employees, the existing lighting equipment in the office areas, conference rooms, and business affair handling spaces of the headquarters building in Neihu was completely replaced with high-efficiency LED lamps, significantly reducing electricity consumption (saving approximately 170,000 kWh of electricity per year) and improving energy efficiency. Currently, we have applied to the Ministry of Environment for the title of voluntary carbon reduction project for the case; we are now in the stage of providing supplementary materials for review. In the future, we will continue to improve the lighting equipment of the rest of the space within the Group to include it in the control scope of the smart building.
Furthermore, due to the increasing tendency of aridity in Taiwan and the demand for healthy and high-quality drinking water, we have introduced Watergen’s high-tech atmospheric drinking water device, one of the seven great inventions in Israel. The device uses air as a raw material to produce healthy potable water that has the best quality while requiring low cost in an energy-efficient manner. With this innovative technology, we look forward to bringing a more healthy, environmentally friendly, and convenient green life to Gamania employees!
