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Sustainability
Building sustainability into
business – A case study on Kenco
K
raft Foods, parent company of The Kenco Coffee Company, is continually working to reduce the
environmental impact of its activities, preventing pollution and promoting the sustainability of the
natural resources upon which it depends, while providing high quality products that meet the needs
of its consumers.
Kraft Foods’ approach to sustainability focuses on the areas which have the biggest impact on its
business: energy reduction and efficient resource use, ethical sourcing of commodities and packaging
reduction and recyclability. Kraft Foods applies these principles across its portfolio of brands including Kenco.
UK MANUFACTURING INITIATIVES
A primary focus for the company has been on issues related to Now all of the beans for the entire Kenco freeze-dried coffee range
product manufacturing, such as reduction of air emissions, waste water and for the roast and ground range of Kenco Westminster Medium
effluent and solid wastes. At Kraft Foods’ Banbury coffee production Roast, Kenco Sustainable Development Medium Dark Roast and
site, where the bulk of Kenco coffee is manufactured, 85% of the Kenco Italia Dark Roast are sourced from Rainforest Alliance
plant’s electrical energy requirement is generated on site by Combined Certified™ farms.
Heat and Power units (CHPs), while the company has invested
heavily in technology to remove coffee solids from the waste water ETHICALLY SOURCED HOT CHOCOLATE
stream used in the production process before it returns to the local The Kenco Coffee Company was the first UK company to source
municipal treatment works. The site is also ISO 14001 certified. cocoa for its hot chocolate products from Rainforest Alliance
Certified™ farms. The company has worked with the Rainforest
Alliance to open up new supplies from certified sources in West
Africa since 2006. The entire Suchard Away From Home portfolio
contains cocoa sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms.
OTHER INITIATIVES
By using indirect distribution and routes to market we are also
helping to minimise the environmental impact of transportation.
Finally, The Kenco Coffee Company is proactive in the area of
paper cup recycling, being a founder member of The Paper Cup
Recovery and Recycling Group whose aim is to find a practical
solution to the disposal of paper cups in the UK. The company is also
a sponsor of Save-A-Cup Recycling.
Overall, Kraft Foods is continually working to improve its
performance in this important area. For further information on the
Kenco brand go to www.kencocoffeecompany.co.uk. For details and
further examples of our approach to sustainability go to
SUSTAINABILITY IN PRODUCT SOURCING www.kraftfoodsbetterworld.com, where you can also check our
The company focuses on producing quality coffees and hopes to progress against targets we have set for our organisation.
do so long into the future. Agriculture can have a significant For further information on the Rainforest Alliance visit
environmental, economic and social impact and for this reason Kraft www.rainforest-alliance.org
Foods works closely with its agricultural supply base. The company’s
initial focus has been in the areas of coffee and cocoa.
SUSTAINABLY FARMED COFFEE
Kraft Foods has been working in the area of coffee sustainability
for over 15 years, having a series of country based projects as well as
being a contributor to the Common Code of the Coffee Community
project, a global initiative which seeks to define sustainability in the
coffee sector. Since 2003, Kraft Foods has been working with the
Rainforest Alliance, a leading independent non-profit environment
organisation, and has helped advance the availability of coffee from
Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms into the mainstream. Kraft
Foods’ focus on sustainable sourcing has helped to drive growth in
the number of Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms. The programme
assures consumers that the products they are buying come from
farms that meet demanding standards for environmental, economic
and social improvements.
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