- Agricultural production
- Workforce
- Quality and nutrition
- Natural resources
- Transport
- GMOs
- The supply charter
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Taking on the environmental challenge
Transportation plays a vital role in Bonduelle’s operations, bringing vegetables to the Group’s production facilities and sending the finished products out for distribution. Transportation issues have been fully incorporated into the corporate sustainable development policy, as Bonduelle strives to strike a balance between economics and ecology.
Highly conscious of the impact transportation has on the environment, in recent years the Bonduelle Group has undertaken several measures to optimize flows and thereby reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. These initiatives consist notably of sourcing vegetable production areas as close as possible to the regions in which the vegetables are consumed and of ensuring the availability
of appropriate storage space. Moreover, distribution centers, which are organized by region, are responsible for approving the choice of transporters used to distribute our products to our customers, emphasizing the compliance of these partners with our policy and applying the objectives set by the Group’s Executive Management.
Transportation oversight and sustainable development committee
The transportation oversight and sustainable development committee is comprised of representatives of severaldifferent areas, including sales, factory logistics, supply chain, central purchasing and the sustainable development department. The committee is responsible notably for monitoring all pertinent legislative changes and advances made by the Grenelle environmental initiative (in France), and for exploring new transportationalternatives to highways.
Measuring as a tool for improvement
One highlight of the 2008-09 financial year was the revelation of the corporate survey conducted by the Bonduelle Conserve International subsidiary that the entity was emitting the equivalent of 7,406 metric tons of CO2 every year in inter-facility transportation in Europe. What is more, 9,866 TEQ CO2 were emitted moving the finished goods to distribution points in France.
These numbers have given BCI the impetus to identify more environmentally-responsible transportation solutions than the use of highways.