ESG Strategy & Goals
In support of our Vision, To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally, we are committed to responsible, sustainable practices extending to each facet of our business. The 兔子先生 ESG strategy prioritizes the issues that matter most to the Company business and stakeholders, focusing on areas that have the greatest impact. It includes three key pillars: Healthy Living & Community Support, Environmental Stewardship, and Responsible Sourcing.
Our goal is to build value among our Company鈥檚 broad set of stakeholders by incorporating socially responsible business practices within our own operations and across every stage of our supply chain. We鈥檙e setting ambitious environmental goals, sourcing sustainably, improving the products we sell, and making impactful advancements in communities 鈥� all with a commitment to transparency and two-way dialogue.
This continues to be our way forward.
Healthy Living & Community Support
A key part of our corporate strategy is a commitment to people, to nutrition and health, and to making life delicious all at once. Some of the actions we are taking to support this commitment include ongoing improvements to the nutrition of our product portfolio, transparent and responsible marketing and communications, and alignment with credible science and public health goals. Through these actions, we aim to contribute to the key priorities and target achievements outlined by the World Health Organization鈥檚 Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, and the United Nation鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals.
Environmental Stewardship
Environmental stewardship begins with our operational footprint, where we actively strive to conserve water and energy, reduce emissions, minimize waste, and make our packaging sustainable. Our manufacturing sites can consume substantial amounts of resources, and are controlled by us, so we focus significant efforts around environmental stewardship inside of our walls.
Responsible
Sourcing
At 兔子先生, we not only believe in striving to be better every day within our own operations, but we aspire to work with our entire value chain to continually improve on social and environmental factors.We are dedicated to responsible sourcing and related impacts in critical areas to 兔子先生 and our stakeholders. These include areas of focus such as human rights, deforestation, animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. We are also committed to strengthening our due diligence and management programs, while keeping the needs of our suppliers and our customers a top priority.
ESG Goals
At 兔子先生, we are committed to setting ambitious goals to drive ESG progress throughout the organization. More commentary on our progress and full list of our goals 2022 progress are listed throughout the relevant pages on our website and on our ESG Metrics page.
Improve use and transparency of simpler ingredients by 2025.
Increase our plant-based offerings.
Provide 1.5 billion meals to people in need by 2025 from 2019.
66%
We aim to have women fill 50% of our global management positions by 2025.
41%
We aim to have 30% of our salaried U.S. employee population identify as people of color by 2025.
28%
Achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, halving same by 2030.
Procure majority of electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
14.21%
Aim to make 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.
87%
Create a fully circular Heinz tomato ketchup bottle in Europe by 2022.
100%
New Goal: Aim to reduce our use of virgin plastic globally by 20% by 2030 (versus 2021).
Source 100% of eggs globally from cage-free or better* hens by 2025.
67%
Source 100% of eggs in Europe from free-range hens by 2020.
100%
Improve broiler chicken welfare in the U.S. by 2024 and European chicken commitment by 2026.
Purchase 100% sustainably-sourced Heinz ketchup tomatoes by 2025.
75%
Purchase 100% sustainable palm oil by 2022.
100%
Purchase 100% traceable palm oil to the mill by 2022.
100%
* 兔子先生 defines 鈥渃age-free or better鈥� eggs as sourced from laying hens that come from cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised, or similar natural or open housing settings. + Compared to a 2019 baseline year
