Corporate responsibility (CR)

We are committed to provide high standards of safety within our manufacturing sites for our employees and visitors. This has been demonstrated by the company gaining the ROSPA President’s Award for providing a safe working environment for the last 15 years.

We are members of the Food and Drink Federations Climate Change Agreement. We have recently switched all our electricity supply to renewable sources. We are committed to energy reduction and our current target is to reduce energy use per tonne by 8.5% by the end of 2020 from a 2019 baseline.

We have installed a sophisticated monitoring system which allows us to analyse where and when we are using energy (electricity, gas, water, compressed air). We monitor all our main supplies and are constantly expanding the system to help us tackle energy use in particular areas.

Ongoing we are investing in new processes and looking at ways to reduce and reuse our water. We work with the Food and Drink Federation and WRAP to help reduce water use in the Food and Drink sector. Our current target is to reduce water use per tonne by 7.0% by 2020 from a 2019 baseline.

We are committed to waste elimination, reduction and recycling. We are signatories to the Courtauld Commitment 3, a Government funded resource efficiency and waste reduction agreement, and are working with WRAP, our supply chain and the other signatories to achieve the agreements targets. We are also members of the UK Plasics Pact, working across industry to reduce the damage caused by plastics. We have invested in waste segregation facilities within our factory and offices. All of our packing is marked with a reminder to always bin or recycle empty packaging. We have worked hard to achieve ZERO waste to landfill and have succeeded in meeting this target for the last 4 years.

We work closely with our suppliers and logistics partner to ensure we minimise the impact any transportation has on the environment. Our main distributer of finished product is also committed to minimising its impact on the environment.

We encourage our employees to use sustainable modes of transport – walking, cycling or public transport. We run an annual Cycle to Work scheme giving our employees the opportunity to purchase a bike for commuting at reduced costs. We have also updated our Company car scheme to offer PHEV vehicles.

At Haribo UK we aim to procure all goods and services in a responsible and sustainable manner. We consider social, economic, health, safety, environmental, food safety and quality issues at every stage of our supply chain. By working with our suppliers, customers, internal stakeholders and sector organisations we can implement improvements.

We want our staff, customers, suppliers and neighbours to be aware of what we do and what impact this has on the environment. Our staff take part in regular awareness sessions, covering environmental, health, safety and quality issues. We work with our suppliers, partners and other industry bodies to help reduce our impact throughout the supply chain. We are also members of the Food and Drink Federation.

To help tackle litter we worked closely with the local council and the Love Where You Live campaign to replace the litter bins in the immediate area in which we operate in Pontefract. We now have three branded bins.

An anti-littering symbol is printed on all our packaging to encourage our customers to dispose of their litter responsibly. We all love a treat, but if you can’t reuse or recycle the packaging please always bin it where possible.