General

Learn More about Our Sustainability Goals

As a strong and reliable food retailer, employer, and partner, we are laying the foundations for a livable future and helping to ensure that all people have access to good, sustainable food. As part of this work, we are focusing on both the health of people and the health of the planet. As an international food retailer, we want to take ownership of our responsibility and show this through our actions. Our long-term involvement as partners in sustainability projects is a testament to this approach. This ensures that we are able to provide customers with food that is produced under fair working conditions using processes that preserve resources and that is offered in environmentally friendly packaging. To ensure that we continue to be able to do this in the future, we have expanded our sustainability strategy and set ourselves an important milestone on the road toward a more livable future.

The following section contains guidelines and requirements that form the basis of our actions.

GSR – General Sustainability Requirements

Our Requirements for Sustainable Procurement

In our General Sustainability Requirements, we set out our requirements for fair business practices, for our responsibility toward the environment and animals, and for upholding human rights.

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Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct in Cooperation with Suppliers

In our General Sustainability Requirements, we set out our requirements for fair business practices, for our responsibility toward the environment and animals, and for upholding human rights.

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Transparency Report Fruit & Vegetables

Our Strategy and Measures for Sustainable F&V Supply Chains

Sustainability has been an important consideration for us for many years in the production of fruit and vegetables. We monitor our natural produce along the entire supply chain, from cultivation and transport through to its arrival in our Kaufland stores.

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Soy Guidelines

Our Strategy and Measures for Sustainable Soy

Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time and one that requires action to be taken at all levels of society. Therefore, the sustainable and deforestation-free cultivation of soy plays an important role in protecting our environment. We have set ourselves the goal of eliminating deforestation and land conversion in our value chains, especially in regard to soy.

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Fish Guidelines

Our Strategy and Measures for Sustainable Fish

Our guidelines for the international purchasing of fish, seafood, and shellfish lay the foundation for a responsible product assortment and, in doing so, actively contribute to the protection of people, animals, and the environment along the entire supply chain. The overarching goal of these guidelines is to promote responsible sourcing practices and ensure sustainable management of the world’s remaining fish stocks.

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