ESG Strategy & Goals
In support of our Dream, To be the leader in elevating and creating food that makes you feel good, we are committed to responsible, sustainable practices extending to each facet of our business. The Kraft Heinz ESG strategy prioritizes the issues that matter most to the Company business and stakeholders, focusing on areas that have the greatest impact. It includes three key pillars: Healthy Living & Community Support, Environmental Stewardship, and Responsible Sourcing.
Our goal is to build value among our Company’s broad set of stakeholders by incorporating socially responsible business practices within our own operations and across every stage of our supply chain.
We’re setting ambitious environmental goals, sourcing sustainably, improving the products we sell, and making impactful advancements in communities – all with a commitment to transparency and two-way dialogue.
This continues to be our way forward.
Healthy Living & Community Support
A key part of our corporate strategy is a commitment to people, to nutrition and health, and to making life delicious all at once. Some of the actions we are taking to support this commitment include ongoing improvements to the nutrition of our product portfolio, transparent and responsible marketing and communications, and alignment with credible science and public health goals. Through these actions, we aim to contribute to the key priorities and target achievements outlined by the World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Environmental Stewardship
Environmental stewardship begins with our operational footprint, where we actively strive to conserve water and energy, reduce emissions, minimize waste, and make our packaging sustainable. Our manufacturing sites can consume substantial amounts of resources, and are controlled by us, so we focus significant efforts around environmental stewardship inside of our walls.
Responsible
Sourcing
At Kraft Heinz, we not only believe in striving to be better every day within our own operations, but we aspire to work with our entire value chain to continually improve on social and environmental factors.We are dedicated to responsible sourcing and related impacts in critical areas to Kraft Heinz and our stakeholders. These include areas of focus such as human rights, deforestation, animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. We are also committed to strengthening our due diligence and management programs, while keeping the needs of our suppliers and our customers a top priority.
2023 ESG Highlights
At Kraft Heinz, we are committed to setting ambitious goals to drive ESG progress throughout the organization. Below are our ESG goal highlights for 2023. More commentary on our progress is discussed throughout the report. A full list of metrics is available here .
We aim to have women fill 50% of our global management positions by 2025.
43%
We aim to have 30% of our salaried U.S. employee population identify as people of color by 2025.
29%
Provide 1.5 billion meals to people in need by 2025 from 2019.
90%
* Includes materials that are recyclable, widely recyclable, check locally and where packaging is included in specific recycling programs such as TerraCycle. ** Percentage of direct suppliers (tier 1) suppliers with RSPO certification. *** Kraft Heinz defines “cage-free or better” eggs as sourced from laying hens that come from cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised, or similar natural or open housing settings. + Compared to a 2019 baseline year. ++ Compared to a 2021 baseline year.
