Carrefour - 2017 Registration Document

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Combatting waste 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT | CARREFOUR 2. 40 Combatting waste 2.2 Since 2013, Carrefour has encouraged employees, suppliers and customers to adhere to its Antigaspi Plan on combatting waste. The plan, which features a bee as its symbol, combats all types of waste throughout the entire product lifecycle, from when the products are farmed or manufactured, through to sale, consumption and end of life. It covers five main areas: food, waste, climate, packaging and water. The Antigaspi Plan is managed at Group level by emulating and sharing best practices. At country level, it is overseen by the Executive Directors of the countries and business lines. Plan performance is monitored by a Group-level Antigaspi Committee. Combatting food waste 2.2.1 Actions addressing SDG 12 Through its Antigaspi Plan, Carrefour is committed to a 50% reduction in the volume of food waste at retail level, and is working hard to reduce food waste along the production and supply chains (target 12.3). Carrefour’s policy Carrefour shares the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) goal to reduce food waste by 50% by 2025 compared with 2016. [CSR Index] To reach this goal, Carrefour is implementing a comprehensive food waste reduction policy that involves a number of measures: Adopt a more professional approach to waste at stores, by ● offering Antigaspi coaching, matching stock levels to demand flows, running special offers as use-by dates approach, devising ways to give products a second-life, recycling waste, and making donations to food aid charities or subsidised grocery stores; Develop solutions with suppliers, by extending the shelf life of ● Carrefour’s own-brand products, conducting surveys on production waste, and selling visually defective products that are as good as non-defective ones; Run charity operations. All consolidated supermarkets and ● hypermarkets in France have contracts with food aid charities on distribution of their unsold products, and the Carrefour Foundation is actively involved in emergency humanitarian aid and food provision (see Section 2.4.6); Promote waste reduction among customers, by developing ● innovative solutions, raising awareness and offering support to make progress in this area. After a pilot period in France, the programme is now being rolled out across all the countries covered by Carrefour. Initial data of food waste from French hypermarkets and supermarkets in 2017 need further review before reliable figures can be released. Highlights For World Food Day, Antigaspi waste reduction operations were run in all countries covered by the Group. For example, Carrefour China launched a campaign to reach out to customers, and introduced sections devoted to products with a short shelf life. It also ran an awareness-raising campaign for schoolchildren. Carrefour Brazil stepped up its foodstuffs Antigaspi Plan, which started in 2013 and formed a major strategic focus in the country in 2017. An Antigaspi Committee was set up to monitor the plan’s performance. Carrefour Brazil partnered with the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit on deep-tech innovation to support innovative start-ups working on responsible food and waste reduction. Stores issued an Antigaspi guide for personnel and put products with short use-by dates on prominent display for customers. Carrefour Brazil also launched Unicos, a varied range of quality fruit and vegetable products discounted by more than 30% because of deviation from usual aesthetic norms. In Argentina, Carrefour took part in a nationwide Food Waste Reduction Day event, issuing a consumers’ guide on cutting down food waste. This awareness-raising campaign, run in Carrefour stores and on social media, reached close to 20% of the population. In Italy, Carrefour signed a partnership with Barilla ® on encouraging customers to cook pasta with past-their-prime vegetables, and put on an Antigaspi Day event. Working with its supplier Buy Nearby ® , winner of the 2016 Major Supplier Challenge, Carrefour Taiwan founded the country’s first Antigaspi brand, O’Gaspi. The brand’s first product, an “ugly sherbet” made from substandard fruit, is 30% less expensive than equivalent products on the market. Carrefour and its suppliers continued their joint programme on extending or removing use-by and best-before dates. So far, more than 400 Carrefour own-brand products had their use-by date and best-before date extended, while the latter was removed from over 50 products.