The social (S) sustainability topics are outlined on this page at a high level. A detailed description of our policies, objectives, action plans, impacts, and results is published in our Sustainability Report.
The Group’s activities also involve impacts on a social level. This comes to the fore in the material sustainability topics we have identified with respect to jobs and the working conditions of both our own workforce and workers across our value chain, but also with respect to food safety and consumer health and nutrition. Our efforts in this domain are centred on diversity, good working conditions for workers across our value chain, and reducing the sugar, salt and saturated fat content in our Exclusive Brand products
We aspire to be an organisation where teams of satisfied, engaged and professionally strong employees work together to achieve the Group’s ambitions. Our employees are characterised by their professional skills, which they express with passion. Our ambition is to be an attractive employer both now and in the future, where people can develop their talents and put them to maximum use.
We adhere to the OECD Guidelines and UN principles for human rights as the basis of our policy and expect our suppliers to do the same. The policy is implemented by the supply chain and procurement and product range management departments and is also laid down in our Suppliers’ Manual.
We stand for supplying safe (food) products. Control over food safety in our processes is ensured by internal and external audits performed on the basis of national and international legislation and standards. In the event of concerns about the food safety of a product, we eliminate all potential risk by withdrawing these items from sale and immediately informing customers
about the possible risks.