Our purpose is to make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based food that is good for you and for our planet.
Our current food system is unsustainable. If the diets of G20 nations today were adopted worldwide, by 2050, we would require up to seven planets to support us*. As a global leader in plant-based food, we are on a mission to drive positive change through tasty, delicious and nutritious food that is better for our planet, better for health, better for animals, and better for the budget.
How we put our purpose into practice…
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Plant basedOur purpose drives our targets on climate action, ensuring our business, products and packaging are more sustainable. -
Healthier livesWe aim to impact 200 million lives with access to affordable and healthy nutrition. -
Happier peopleWe want our Upfielders to ‘Come As They Are’, perform at their best, enjoy the adventure and help deliver our vision for the future of food. -
Better PlanetWe are making our plant-based products tastier and natural. Helping one billion people choose our delicious foods.
Our ESG strategy contributes to several of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Our Stakeholders
We are committed to driving positive change within the global food system and work hard to cultivate relationships with: suppliers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), industry advocacy groups, Upfielders, consumers, investors, strategic partners, governments, communities and customers. We seek to act responsibly, fairly and transparently in our interactions along our value chain. For more information see page 33 of the Financial & ESG Summary 2022.
Materiality
We take a materiality-led approach to our sustainability ambitions. Our four-pillar strategy was created by understanding what really matters to our customers, wider stakeholders and business.
In 2020, in consultation with our key stakeholders, we undertook a materiality assessment to define our material ESG topics - the issues that matter most to our business and where we make the biggest impact. These issues informed the four pillars of our strategy and our commitments. Our materiality matrix shows the relationship between the issues and the four pillars of our strategy.
Annual Reporting
Our Financial & ESG Summary 2022 sets out how we are well-positioned to make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based food that is good for you and our planet. Our commitments across our four pillars - Plant-Based, Healthier Lives, Happier People and Better Planet - are at the heart of our business, with tangible programmes and milestones making our targets ambitious and achievable.