PROMOTING LIFESTYLE AND URBANISM

Promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyle is very important to us. We sponsor various sports teams and organizations related to walking and cycling in cities. We actively participate in the Walk the City initiative. We identify with its stated mission that pedestrians are a treasure to the city. We love our cities and want to make them a safer and more pleasant place to stay. We advocate walking as one of the best ways to travel short distance – walk a little further, then bike. That is also why we have been long-term supporters of the Slovak Cycling Association.

As a supplier of public space components and furniture, urban planning is important to us as company and on a personal level with our employees. We too are people living in cities that we love. Aleš Bakoš is not only mmmcité's Board Chairman but also a long-term ambassador of CityChangers – an initiative to improve the traffic situation and traffic planning promoting friendly and sustainable mobility.

Fascinating public space and interesting placemaking are themes of many of our partnerships. In the US market, we maintain long-standing relationships with professional institutions such as ASLA, LAF and LaBash. In Austria we promote talent and new ideas to public space through a competition organized by ÖGLA, and the Austrian non-profit association of landscape architects ORTE.

Our mission to make cities more beautiful often takes a very specific form and place. In Brazil, we have donated benches and litter bins to APAE (Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional People) in São Bento do Sul and Rio Negrinho. In addition, we have donated benches and planters to churches including Main Church of São Bento do Sul, Oxford Parish and Rio Vermelho.

REGIONAL PROMOTION

Think globally, act locally.

We are always happy to lend a hand, or bench, when needed. We have donated benches to communities affected by the tornado to help restore public spaces faster. We have teamed up with the Salvation Army to replace benches with beds. We contribute financially, and raise public awareness, to solve homelessness issues and improve the living conditions for the unhoused. Everyone deserves to sleep in a bed.

In our home region, we support the hospital of Uherské Hradiště and we also partner with community agencies organizing sports activities for children and adults. Our offices around the world are involved in a range of CSR activities and our colleagues work with those in need in their home countries and regions.

We had the honor to provide furniture at the inclusive park created for children with mental and physical disabilities within the Ace Mentor Legacy project for Liberty City Elementary School Yard in Miami. In Warsaw, we teamed up with the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Their mission is to create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and keep sick children and their families together when facing the weight of long-term illness. We helped in opening the second Ronald McDonald House. Health is our greatest asset. Family and quality relationships are also very valuable assets. Our support is often specific and personalized. In the Slovak unincorporated association, Emulík, we contributed towards the purchase of a lower leg brace for little Emma.

Helping others comes naturally to the mmcité. Our employees personally give of their time and resources with gifts of bone marrow transplants and blood donation.

With simple gifts and small steps, together we are changing the lives of people and cities for the better.