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Reducing packaging
Our colleagues in Australia with our supplier partners are reducing packaging and making it more recyclable.
Click here to read moreSustainability team day
Sustainability Leaders from around our business got together for a day of collaboration and planning.
Click here to read moreSpotlight on transparency
A short blog from our Chief Quality and Sustainability Officer putting the spotlight on the importance of transparency across the supply chain.
Click here to read moreLots of businesses talk about sustainability, but with Hilton Foods it's written into the way we work. Our whole business model depends on the standards and trust we provide as global food producers. Put simply, customers wouldn't choose to work with Hilton Foods and grow our businesses together if we weren't trying to take a leadership position on these issues.
Key achievement milestones
2024
We published our Transition Plan, outlining clear steps, responsibilities, and timelines for how we will reach our target to be net zero by 2048.
Read our Transition Plan here2024
We published our Crustacean Policy, one of the first in the industry to do this.
Read the policy here2024
We partnered with Seafish to launch a carbon emissions tool for the seafood industry, the first tool of its kind and a big step towards decarbonising the sector. We are now integrating this across our seafood supply chains.
Try the emissions tool here2024
We partnered with the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) on their Food System Transition Plan to Net Zero, committing as an industry on a concrete plan to successfully transition to net zero by 2050.
Read more on our sector transition plan2024
We have had new, more ambitious near and long-term science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
Science based targets approved2023
Hilton Foods has increased its CDP Forests scores for Soy and Timber to B and maintained an A- for Climate Change.
2023
Achieved ISO 50,001 certification for our energy management system across ten of our operating sites improving our energy performance, efficiency, use and consumption.
2023
Submitted Science Based Targets with increased ambition in line with 1.5̊ C
Sustainable Protein Plan Press Release 20232023
Recognised as one of Europe's Climate Leaders in 2023 by the Financial Times
2022
Integrated sustainability objectives into our Long-Term Incentive Plans (LTIPs) for senior leaders
Find our more in our 2022 results presentation2022
Hilton Foods has increased its CDP Climate Change Score to A- and increased its forests scores to B for cattle products, B- for timber and maintained B- for soy
2022
Introduction of film with 30% recycled content and pad-less liquid retaining packaging launched
2022
As a founder member of the UK Soy Manifesto we have committed to deforestation and conversion free supply chains with a 2020 cut off
2022
We launched our 2025 Sustainable Protein Plan across our business, innovating through partnership to make nutritious protein more sustainable
2021
We launched our Women’s Network to support women to progress at all levels
2021
We have set Science Based Targets, aligned to well-below 2°C trajectory for our site's Scope 1 and 2 emissions and we maintained our CDP Climate Change score B and increased our Supplier Engagement score to an A
2021
We conducted a Human Rights Impact Assessment of our shrimp supply chain in Vietnam alongside our UK customer and suppliers and Hilton Seafoods UK received the award for Innovation in Animal Welfare by Compassion in World Farming for humane stunning in warm water prawns
2021
We signed up to the UN Race to Zero, announcing our commitment to achieve net zero emissions globally before 2050 and we maintained our CDP Climate Change score B and increased our Supplier Engagement score to an A
2020
We achieved 100% sustainably sourced paper and board (from FSC or PEFC sustainably certified forests) across all of our retail packaging globally and we extended our Plastic Pact commitment to Europe, Australia and New Zealand
2020
98% of our UK seafood is sourced from Marine Stewardship Council certified fisheries, or fisheries participating in a comprehensive Fishery Improvement Project (FIP)
Find out more about our expertise2020
We became a founding member of the Soy Transparency Coalition and sponsored the first trader benchmarking report
2019
100% renewable energy achieved at our UK and Irish sites We increased our CDP Climate Score to a B
Learn more about where we operate2019
We joined the Animal Health and Welfare Working Group within the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, providing cattle with an environment in which they can thrive through best practice
2019
We joined the UK Plastics Pact, committing to 100% of plastics packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025
2018
We were a founding member of the Seafood Ethics Action Alliance (SEAA), a pre-competitive collaboration platform that works to ensure human rights in seafood supply chains are respected
Find out more about seafoodSustainability remains a critical part of our overall strategy, not just because it is the right thing to do for the planet and our people, but also because it remains a key differentiator for us with our customers.
