Other ingredients

Palm oil

We collaborate with our suppliers to ensure that the palm oil and palm oil derivatives used in our own brand products are third party certified and do not contribute to deforestation.

We've been members of The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since January 2020 and we are working towards ensuring that 100% of palm oil used in our own-brand products in Great Britain is RSPO-certified (either segregated or mass balance).

Although we’ve made some great progress, we know that there is still more to do, and we will continue to work closely with both our UK and international suppliers and partners to continue making progress.

Learn more at www.rspo.org.

Animal welfare

We continue working closely with our suppliers to ensure consistent animal welfare standards across our supply chains. For example, at the start of 2022 we started working with our UK milk supplier to directly engage dairy farmers in our fresh milk supply chain. This included offering free herd health assessments to help farmers raise animal welfare standards even further.

Cage-free eggs

In 2023, we announced our intent to report our progress toward our cage-free egg goal.  Since then, we’ve been working with our suppliers and partners across our global operating markets and the results of our latest survey (based on FY 2022 data) show that:

• Overall, 75%* of eggs sourced for our global business are cage-free.

• In the UK**, where we source most of our egg volume, 100% of shell, product and ingredient eggs are cage-free.

• In the United States, 100% of product eggs are cage-free. 

• In many of our European markets, we are making progress and on track to achieve our cage-free commitment in line with our end of 2025 target date.

• The most challenging regions remain Asia Pacific and the Middle East & North Africa, where there is a limited supply of cage-free eggs, and we continue to work with partners, suppliers, and external stakeholders to identify long-term, viable solutions.

While we are making progress in some markets, collecting egg usage data from multiple partners operating across diverse geographies remains challenging. We will continue to work toward improving cage-free egg reporting and data consistency across global markets. Our intention is to share a further update on our progress by the end of 2024, subject to newly collated data being appropriately and consistently validated across our global markets.