Member stories

Britvic delivering clean energy for factories

75% of the grid electricity used to manufacture Britvic's soft drinks in Great Britain, including brands like Fruit Shoot and Tango, is coming from a 160-acre solar farm in Northamptonshire. This solar farm, which provides clean energy to Britvic’s factories in Rugby, London, and Leeds, will produce 3.1 Gigawatts of power annually, enough to power 11,500 homes, and is expected to reduce carbon dioxide from the supply chain by 1,113 tonnes each year. The initiative supports Britvic’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with plans to explore onsite generation in the near future.

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I dedicating 260 hectares to nature

Through its Farm Stewardship Programme, SBF GB&I has been supporting its Ribena blackcurrant growers in the conservation of habitats on their farms. To do this the company developed a Six Point Plan (6PP) to boost biodiversity, consisting of simple but effective environmental principles implemented alongside production which is embedded in and around all 34 blackcurrant farms in Great Britain. Over 260 hectares, or 13% of the fruit growing area on blackcurrant farms, is dedicated to providing nectar-rich habitats for pollinators, while 185 miles of hedgerows are carefully managed to support wildlife and carbon capture. Additionally, over 2,000 nest boxes have been installed, with a 58% occupancy rate, benefiting species such as barn owls, which now breed on seven farms. The 6PP, together with tailored advice from expert partners such as the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, helps to ensure the protection and enhancement of natural capitals, such as soil, water and priority habitats.

Nestlé building transparent and Sustainable supply chains

From June 2024, all cocoa mass used in Nestlé Confectionery products KitKat products manufactured in the UK, including KitKat, Aero and Yorkie, has been fully traceable back to the group of farmers who grew it. This is another step in Nestlé’s efforts to build transparency and sustainable supply chains and guarantees that the cocoa mass used in their products is coming from a group of cocoa farming families engaged in the Nestlé Income Accelerator Programme (IAP). The cocoa mass sourced from the Income Accelerator Programme adheres to one of the highest standards, ensuring "mixed identity preserved" traceability, enabling cocoa to be traced and stored separately. The IAP helps cocoa farming families to achieve a living income by incentivising and supporting them to build resilience – for themselves, their communities and resilience to the impacts of climate change. In addition, Nestlé uses segregated cocoa butter certified by Rainforest Alliance in its UK Confectionery products which guarantees the physical separation of its cocoa from conventional cocoa throughout the supply chain.

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Danone working with WRAP & Good to Go to reduce food waste

Danone are committed to reducing food waste by 50% across their operations by 2030 and are members of WRAP’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. They redistribute surplus food that would otherwise have gone to waste to those in need in the community through partnerships with FareShare and Company Shop. In 2023, Danone UK & Ireland donated 824 tonnes of food surplus to charities, the equivalent of nearly 2 million meals. To help reduce food waste in the home, Danone has switched from ‘Use by’ to ‘Best before’ dates across all Activia, Actimel and Oykos yogurts as well as Alpro UHT products in the UK and Ireland. They work with Too Good To Go on communications campaigns to help consumers on understand that food past it’s best before date can still be good to eat.

Mondelez removes hundreds of tonnes of virgin plastic from packaging

In the U.K. for Christmas 2023, Mondelez evolved their core Cadbury selection boxes to include trays made with ~80% rPET – post-consumer recycled plastic PET. This material is widely collected as part of household recycling collections and consumers can check online whether it is collected near them. This move enabled them to remove several hundred metric tonnes of virgin plastic contributing to their 2025 sustainable packaging goals and as actionable progress toward their U.K. Plastic Pact goals.