Unilever Food Solutions

Growing
Sustainably
in Foodservice
2013 CIA-Harvard Menus of Change™
National Leadership Summit
June 12, 2013 | Charles Hotel | Cambridge, MA
Closing General Session
Simon Marshall, President
Unilever Food Solutions North America
Two years ago we announced a new
vision for our company of doubling
the size of our company and
increasing our positive social impacts
while halving the environmental
impact of our products across the
value chain. We launched the
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan with
3 big goals and we have set out a
new purpose: To make sustainable
living commonplace
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: Overview
The Opportunity
17.5m foodservice
outlets in the world*
Tens of millions of
chefs/cooks worldwide
Each chef prepares
hundreds of
thousands of meals
in a lifetime
Small changes add up to a BIG difference
* Source Datamonitor
How we as Unilever Food Solutions contribute
Achievements
Palm Oil
At the end
of 2012,
our
progress on
sourcing
raw
agricultural
ingredients
was 36%.
All palm oil from
certified sustainable
sources now
Tea
All Lipton tea 100%
Rainforest Alliance
Certified by 2015
By 2020 all palm oil
used in products will
be from 100%
traceable sustainable
sources
Hellmann’s
One-third of mayonnaise
portfolio in NA cage-free
Zero to Waste Landfill
Unilever North America
achieves 100% Zero Waste
to Landfill
Sustainable Soy: The Iowa Soy Bean Pilot
Brand
Partners
Sustainable Soy: The Iowa Soy Bean Pilot
Iowa Soy Bean Pilot: Launched in February 2013 as a partnership
with Field to Market, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), and the Iowa
Soybean Association (ISA).
Using the U.S. Soybean Sustainability Pledge as guide for pilot;
working to clarify where gaps between it and the Unilever Sustainable
Ag Code still exist & how ISA can help in closing any gaps through
current voluntary programmes.
The soy under this project is linked directly to Hellmann’s, as they soy
crushed by ADM at its Des Moines facility is shipped to the Hellmann’s
facility in Illinois. Hellmann’s brand team working to link the
sustainable soy “story” with the brand.
During the launch meeting, heard concerns from farmers about the
need to input their data into the Fieldprint Calculator. The ISA is
going to assist the farmers participating in the pilot with the data
entry.
Data will be benchmarked anonymously –and shared. Will be used as
the evidence for ISA to either guide soy farmers to current voluntary
programmes or initiate new ones.
North America Success Story:
Seductive Nutrition
Satisfy guest
demand for
‘healthier’
Make dishes
slightly more
healthy
Promote dishes
by attractive
descriptions
Before
• Remove 100 calories from
popular dishes.
• Partnership with The
Culinary Institute of
America.
• 11 Seductive Nutrition
Workshops held across
North America.
• In the last 6 months of
2012, operators pledged to
remove 450 million
calories from menus.
• To date, 780 million
calories and counting
removed from menus!
After