Sustainable supply chain

Since the majority of our environmental impact lies outside our four walls, we are acting as an agent for change and collaborating with our supply chains to minimise our overall environmental impact.

Pledges made in 2008

  • Collaborate with suppliers and farmer to publish joint carbon reduction strategies within 3 years.
  • Quaker to join Walkers in making a carbon reduction commitment across its whole supply chain.
  • Tropicana to identify action plans for carbon reduction across its whole supply chain.
  • Commission research on oat and potato agricultural and storage practices to identify further savings in greenhouse gas emissions and water use for Quaker and Walkers.

For full details of these and all our pledges, read or download our Environmental Sustainability Report, published in 2008.

Key achievements

In the first year after our pledges we:

  • hosted a series of supplier sustainability summits, and encouraged a broader range of suppliers to take part in the Carbon Disclosure Project's supply chain project;
  • commissioned a sustainable potato project, aiming to identify practical on-farm action to reduce our grower's carbon footprint and water impacts.

For details on progress against all our pledges, read or download our Environmental Sustainability Update, published in 2009.

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