One of the UK’s largest food retailers, Sainsbury’s, has published its third Corporate Responsibility Report.
The report outlines five principles that underpin the company’s approach to corporate responsibility: aiming to be ‘the best for food and health’; ’show respect for our environment’; ’source with integrity’; make a ‘positive difference to our community’, and be ‘a great place to work’.
The report also shows that during the past year, Sainsbury’s:
put its ‘Wheel of Health’ nutritional labelling on almost 1700 products, with research showing that more than 90 per cent of customers find it useful
donated £3.3million to charities via its food donation scheme
launched organic compostable packaging
reduced road mileage by five per cent
became the biggest retailer of Fairtrade products in the UK
launched a ‘Farm Promise’ milk scheme that supports farmers with a guaranteed income to convert to organic
stopped selling two types of fish - Skate and Huss - on ’sustainability grounds’
invested £18.6m in community initiatives, an increase of 170 per cent from the previous year.
You can download the Sainsbury’s 2006 Corporate Responsibility report at
www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/files/reports/cr2006/
Visit www.CorporateRegister.com to access this publication together with a further 11,500 CSR reports.
