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Environmental commitment
We strive to achieve efficiencies in resource
consumption and reduce our overall
environmental impact. This is manifest in
the reduction of our operational carbon
emissions and lower diesel consumption,
while increasing our overall revenue in 2017.
Both Bidfood UK and Logistics are
active participants in the Climate Change
Agreement (CCA), a UK government
volunteer programme that sets sector-based
greenhouse gas reduction targets in two-
year instalments against a 2008 baseline.
Numerous of our sites are engaged in the
Agreement, with the current phase aiming for
an 8,3% carbon reduction target against the
baseline year.
Our actual 2017 carbon reduction of 6,9%
per employee was awarded with The
Planet Mark™ Sustainability Certificate,
giving recognition to our commitment of
engagement with staff and suppliers to
drive environmental improvement, and also
recognising our investment in the Eden
Project education initiative and contribution
to Cool Earth, an environmental charity
protecting rainforest degradation in South
America, Papua New Guinea and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Other notable environmental achievements
include reduction in our paper usage by
23%; recycling of over 70% of our waste;
and, the transformation of our fleet to the
new Euro 6 emission standards.
We are also targeting water reduction of 5%
across all our operations.
Employee development
We take pride in being a fair employer, and
an employer of choice, and have achieved a
number of notable successes during 2017.
Over 83% of Bidfood’s 4 625 employees
actively took part in the “Your Voice”
employee feedback survey. This surpasses
the average of 76% for similar surveys in
the UK private sector, and 74% of Bidfood’s
employees agree with the statement:
”I believe our company cares about the
environment.”
Employee training and, especially, health and
safety, continue to be key areas of concern.
Significant increases in employee training,
learnerships and bursaries were achieved –
most of this within Bidfresh.
Across all our companies, lost time injuries
decreased from 15 to 7 per 200 000 hours,
and no fatalities were recorded during the
reporting period.
Community and social support
Our corporate social investment spend
has remained constant over the past year.
Bidfresh’s CSI activities continue to support
local junior football teams, schools, old age
homes and hospices.
In addition to directly providing financial
assistance to sport, environmental and
career coaching charities, Bidfood UK
employees are proactively involved in raising
funds and providing expertise to numerous
causes. Donated hours by staff doubled in
2016, and are ever increasing.
Bidfood UK continues to support the One
Foundation in the provision of access to
clean water and sanitation projects in Africa
by supplying and encouraging customers to
purchase “One” bottled water- the profits of
which are directed towards the charity.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a key area of business focus
at Bidfood UK. This is indicated by Bidfood
UK, being recognised as the Federation
of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) Green
Wholesaler of the Year for the past four years
in a row.
Such acknowledgement comes on the back
of dedicated efforts to address all aspects of
the business value chain from the sourcing of
viable and sustainable food stocks to direct
operations, and to our various distribution
channels.
Responsible product sourcing
We continue to drive the “Plate2Planet”
website platform that shares sustainability
practices to the food wholesale sector.
Information, articles and advice on wide
ranging issues from ethical sourcing to
efficient transportation are freely shared with
the public and sector alike.
See:
Having achieved a 95% Roundtable on
Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification in
Bidfood’s own-brand products, the company
is now hoping to achieve 100% certification
within the year.
Customers demand ethical trading, locally
grown products and accredited certification
on foodstuffs across all our companies and
we are responding by proactively addressing
these issues in our supplier contracts.
In conjunction with specialist waste-to-
energy company Olleco, Bidfood UK offers
free collection of customers’ spent-oil, which
is then recycled into biodiesel for secondary
purposes.
Female
employees
Male
employees
Lost-time injury
frequency rate (LTIFR)
Employee
training spend
1 906 7 022 7 R51,3m
2016: 1 963 2016: 7 015 2016: 15* 2016: R9,0m
LABOUR
Number of employees Fatalities Payroll spend
8 928 0 R5,4bn
2016: 8 978 2016: 0 2016: R5,9bn
SOCIAL
CSI spend
R0,6m
2016: R0,6m
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