Sustainability Insights

Top voices from packaging, foodservice and sustainability unite to tackle packaging reduction challenges and navigate the shift towards more eco-friendly systems. In the latest episode, 'Packaging: Materials & Substitution' in association with Nestlé Professional, experts delved deep into strategic priorities, assessing the sustainability landscape and charting a course towards a greener future.

Discover how to create a sustainability policy for your business, aligning your company’s practices with sustainability principles to making a positive impact. Read more.

With positive benefits for attracting and retaining employees, boosting brand reputation among consumers, and helping to have a more positive impact, many businesses are looking at adopting sustainability practices. Find out more about business sustainability and its importance in this article.

Start your sustainability journey as a small business. Learn practical initiatives to improve your environmental impact and support your local community. Read more here. 

Discover the importance of effective Green Business Practices. Actively reduce your carbon footprint, involve employees & contribute to a greener future.

Find out how corporate commitments to regenerative farming can help build food system resilience in our new report.

Nestlé Professional launches the Footprint Sustainability Index 2023 to inspire the foodservice industry to keep on striving

Industry leaders from wholesale, foodservice, catering and industry came together last week to discuss the cost-of-living crisis and its impact on hospitality.

NESCAFÉ®, Nestlé’s largest coffee brand and one of the world’s favorite coffees, outlined today its extensive plan to help make coffee farming more sustainable: the NESCAFÉ® Plan 2030. The brand is working with coffee farmers to help them transition to regenerative agriculture while accelerating its decade of work under the NESCAFÉ® Plan.

Today the term sustainability seems to span over many topics, and the sustainability in food and beverage industry is adapting to this new way of understanding the economy and how to make positive moves towards a greener future. As a result, there has been a call for global sustainable indexes that are rational, solid and reliable, to allow the evolution of sustainable investments to be monitored as businesses navigate towards better food industry sustainability.

A global switch to diets with less meat and more fruit and vegetables could save up to 8 million lives, reduce emissions by two thirds, and lead to healthcare related savings and avoided climate damages of $1.5 trillion by 2050, according to an academic study. So, more so now than ever strategies to encourage healthy eating are vital.

COVID has had a substantial impact on the foodservice workforce, with many unable to work, or out of work. Hospitality training and development can be a key support tool in this situation, and food operators across the country have used online learning to develop team skills and foster a sense of belonging during the pandemic.