HEALTH & WELLBEING

FOOD WASTE

As one of the UK’s leading grocery brands and food and drink manufacturers, we have a clear responsibility to address the issue of food waste from farm to fork, which we take very seriously. In the last year we have continued to make good progress, achieving an overall food waste reduction of 13% versus 2020, across our global operations during what was a challenging year.

This work is ongoing, as we continue to explore all opportunities to accelerate further action.

We are partnering organisations such as WRAP and we’re proud to have supported them in their first UK Food Waste Action Week earlier in 2021, highlighting the role that preventing food waste plays in tackling climate change – another important element of our 2030GreenGoals sustainability programme, and vision to ‘Proudly help families to eat well without costing the Earth’.

FARESHARE

We’ve been partnering with FareShare since 2013 and all food and drink that we produce at our UK sites that cannot be sold for whatever reason and is fit for human consumption is donated to them. The charity based, in the UK, is leading the way in tackling hunger and food waste.

In fact, 2020/2021 has been FareShare’s biggest year yet. They helped 10,542 charities and community groups and 1,108,064 people were provided food supplied by FareShare. The food they’ve redistributed contributed towards 131.9 million meals and saved the charity sector £18.5 million.

In 2021 we donated over 105k cases of food and drink, both branded and customer own brand products. We’ve also established a food bank partnership in Italy for excess stock at our PIA operation.

IN 2021 WE’VE DONATED OVER 105K CASES

OF FOOD AND DRINK TO FARESHARE

IN LINE WITH ITS 2030GREENGOALS INITIATIVE, AND COMMITMENT AS A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPIONS 12.3 COALITION, PRINCES IS WORKING TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING SDG TARGET 12.3 BY 2030: BY 2030, HALVE PER CAPITA GLOBAL FOOD WASTE AT THE RETAIL AND CONSUMER LEVELS AND REDUCE FOOD LOSSES ALONG PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY CHAINS, INCLUDING POST-HARVEST LOSSES.

HEALTHY FOOD HEALTHY LIFE

WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN PROVIDING THIS TO HELP FAMILIES EAT WELL AND AFFORDABLY. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE FOOD AND DRINK WE PRODUCE CAN BE FOUND ON THE NHS EATWELL PLATE, CONTRIBUTING TO A BALANCED DIET. THE CORNERSTONES OF OUR BUSINESS - SEAFOOD, PASTA, OILS, PULSES, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES – ALL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN ACHIEVING THIS BALANCE.

HFSS LEGISLATION

We are supportive of UK legislation coming into force in 2022 that will see food and drink High in Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) banned from advertising and promotional activity in media and stores. Very few of our product categories are in scope of the legislation and for those that are we have no products currently impacted.

While this is a positive position, we are not complacent and will continue to review all our recipes and seek to reformulate where we can, in particular towards FSA salt targets for 2024.