Our Commitment To Sustainability

With advanced sustainability practices that protect our land, preserve our resources and support the health and safety of our people, we understand our responsibility to minimize our global footprint, promote ethical supply chains and cultivate a better future for generations to come.

We operate under conservation and environmental health initiatives, like the Rainforest Alliance. We utilize drip irrigation and recyclable packaging whenever possible, and heavily invest in sustainable technology, such as solar energy. Additionally, we subject our business operations to audits by the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) and the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA).

We believe our sustainability initiatives embody our core values: Fun, Innovative, Reliable, Successful and Trustworthy.

Our Goals

As we reflect on the insights gleaned from this report, and plan our way forward, we outline the following goals to keep ourselves accountable and transparent in our progress toward a more sustainable future. Our first ESG report is intended to provide benchmark numbers across our priority topics in order to clarify how our operations impact our goal to provide the finest for our people, product and planet.

Climate Risk

We aim to more effectively monitor, understand and mitigate the effects of our operations on climate risk by: • Integrating and unifying our sustainability practices across our entire global network. • Improving the monitoring, tracking and reporting of the metrics within our priority topics for fiscal year 2021. • Collecting scope 3 data in the coming years to better understand our environmental impact.

Waste Reduction

We plan to reduce our waste and plastic usage throughout the supply chain by: • Implementing a reduced plastic bag in at least 50% of the bags we pack and ship globally by fiscal year 2025. • Applying shelf-life extension technology to 22.5 million pounds of avocados to combat food waste by the end of 2021. Achieving this goal will result in a potential 550 truckloads of avocados diverted from landfills.

Community Investment

Our goal is to increase charitable giving by 50% by the end of 2022.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

As we analyze the status and impact of DE&I on our organization, we develop actionable goals to gain more understanding of how to promote DE&I in our workforce and our industry, including: • Sponsoring the produce industry’s first-ever DE&I initiative in 2021, conducted by the Center For Growing Talent of the Produce Marketing Association. • Conducting annual DE&I employee and management training across our network to encourage our workforce to work compatibly. • Diversifying the applicant pool for our internship program by leveraging and growing relationships with diverse colleges. • Reporting pay equity analysis to our Board of Directors annually.