Our Impact

At The Compleat Food Group we are not just dedicated to producing the freshest and highest quality food for your table, we are committed to doing so in a sustainable and responsible way. Our success – and our future achievements – are inextricably linked to our approach to ESG. By taking our social and environmental impacts seriously and putting responsible business at the heart of everything we do, we’re building a strong and resilient company that delivers sustainability hand-in-hand with financial growth.

Our private equity ownership gives us freedom to act in bold, innovative ways. For example, we’re the only UK manufacturer to have its own UKAS-accredited animal welfare scheme, through our European Farm Partnership programme. This year, we hit a major milestone on delivering more than one million meals to our partners at FareShare and have raised more than £1 million for Action Against Hunger through our brand unearthed®. Elsewhere, 85% of our packaging is now recyclable at the kerbside, and in its first year alone our School Ambassador Network supported 10,685 impact hours with youngsters entering the job market.

All of these initiatives, and more, are critical in reaching our key 2035 targets of operating with net zero emissions and scaling our social value tenfold. This year has been especially valuable for these ambitions, as we’ve developed comprehensive new strategies for a range of material issues including decarbonisation, biodiversity, human rights and community investment, among others. We’ve also been working hard to improve our data systems, so we can report on our progress with greater accuracy, and better identify opportunities for impact.

Our ESG strategy defines what we’ll do and how we’ll do it in order to achieve positive outcomes for people, planet and profit. It guides us to reduce our environmental impact and transition our business to a low carbon future. It challenges us to play our part for a fairer, stronger society where healthy, nutritious food is accessible and affordable to all. And it To galvanises us to be a standard-bearer for a more sustainable and resilient food system.

In July 2024, we published our first ESG Report. I’m very pleased with what we’ve achieved so far. But there are a lot of challenges ahead, many of which we can’t address by ourselves which, is why collaboration with everyone in our value chain – from suppliers and retailers to customers and industry bodies – will be so vital as our ESG action ramps up.

I’m incredibly proud of the brilliant work everyone at The Compleat Food Group has achieved to date, and very much look forward to delivering continued momentum in this critical space.

Nick Field
Chief Executive, The Compleat Food Group