Sustainability report

Having been nominated in 2009 as the company that most actively promotes sustainable living we are keen to ensure our performance continues to meet and exceed the expectations of our stakeholders.


Our sustainability strategy

Our 2009 strategy sought to increase the visibility of our efforts and linkages with our core business through targeted communications and a focus on products (organic, local produce and an enhanced green range). To sustain and broaden this momentum, we have prioritised the following actions for the coming year:

  • Establishing quantitative objectives and targets for each key commitment area
  • Ensuring the Pick n Pay sustainability narrative is shared by all managers
  • Developing a more robust system to track and communicate performance
  • Consolidating our supplier initiatives to encourage more active sustainability commitment

Both our Chairman, Gareth Ackerman, and CEO, Nick Badminton, are members of our Sustainability SteerCom, which meets quarterly to review strategic direction. A five-year sustainability roadmap has been developed to guide our journey and we look forward to publishing our next comprehensive sustainability report later this year.

 

Responding to climate change

Most of our carbon emissions are generated through electricity usage. Proactive energy management is an ongoing focus and we are currently implementing a coordinated action plan across our operations. We are presently finalising a revised climate change response strategy and will be rolling it out in the coming year. We continue to extend the scope and accuracy of our carbon footprint calculation. We actively support the Carbon Disclosure Project and will maintain public disclosure and a commitment to improve on our performance.

Taking opportunities
We continue to build on our existing achievements and to make further progress in our strategic commitment areas. We are working towards some challenging objectives, and we are pleased to outline a few achievements in our focus areas.

 

Our carbon footprint
Source of operational CO2 emissions     CO2 equivalent metric
  tonnes 2009/2010 		  CO2 equivalent metric
tonnes 2008/2009
Energy usage at stores, distribution centres and offices     586 268   584 530 (improved estimate)
Diesel usage from commercial fleet, company cars and generators     28 275   24 582  
Petrol usage from commercial fleet and company vehicles     7 620   7 487  
Business air travel     851   914  

 

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