Engaging with NGOs and industry partners and colleagues enables us to share insights, collaborate on solutions to shared challenges and drive position change across the food system, benefitting our customers, communities, suppliers and planet.
NGOs play a key role in facilitating collaboration by convening industry on a pre-competitive basis to drive pace and change on pivotal issues across the spectrum within our industry.
Key sustainability topics that matter to NGOs and Industry
- Openness and transparency
- Collaboration with NGOs and other members of the industry
- Business responsibility
- Insight from business leaders
- Dedication of time and resources to address key challenges and issues
How we engage on sustainability
- By engaging with NGOs and industry, we’re able to reflect on progress made and identify steps to make further progress in addressing the challenges our industry faces.
- Ongoing development of partnerships with NGOs
- Regular industry meetings and collaboration, supported by NGOs
- Participation in key benchmarks and disclosures
- Driving progress through our priority industry collaboration groups (including Mondra, the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and WRAP)
Examples of our engagement on sustainability in FY2024/25
- Our Chief Executive Officer, Simon Roberts, became president of the IGD and will focus on leading work to build a more sustainable food system. He has also given a number of speeches including at the National Food Congress
- Supported IGD and Ernst and Young’s work on an industry climate transition plan to champion a clearer action plan to support UK food businesses to deliver on their net zero ambitions
- Met with signatories to the WWF’s Retailers’ Commitment for Nature and submitted second year of data to WWF Basket Report to support our commitment
- We worked with NGOs to unlock sector challenges on data definition and measurement
- Our Chief Executive Officer, Simon Roberts, was appointed as a Member of the Government’s Food Strategy Advisory Board, which released the UK government Food Strategy for England in July 2025