International Corporate Responsibility Strategy

International Corporate Responsibility Strategy

You may have already heard about some of the amazing stuff we do to be Better Everyday. It’s fair to say we have already accomplished a lot but there is always more to be done.

International Goal

Making sustainability affordable for our customers by 2030

We at Aldi work closely with our colleagues in our International Corporate Responsibility team to ensure that Aldi CR policies have a widespread positive impact on the planet and our customers by delivering the greatest possible value.

Our six key strategies

Select to read more about our strategic priorities.

Human Rights

We are committed to respecting human rights and improving living and working conditions throughout our supply chains. We do this by working towards:

We will support partnerships and collaborations to improve the livelihoods and working conditions for producers’ right along our high priority supply chains.
By being transparent about challenges and using our voice to advocate for change.
All of our suppliers are expected to comply with our human rights policy and standards.
We will use our buying power to respect and support human rights.

Resource efficiency

Sustainable buying practices are essential for the long-term success of our business. That’s why we have committed to:

Zero carbon

Doing our part to limit global warming.

We are continuing to reduce our operational emissions through energy consumption reduction, using more environmentally friendly refrigerants and procuring renewable electricity.

We are also aiming for zero carbon emissions in our supply chain by 2040. We will be working closely with our suppliers to achieve this.

Employer of choice
Being the employer of choice in our markets.

Customers
Supporting our customers in living healthier lives.

We are constantly reformulating our products to improve the nutritional content and reduce salt, sugar, calories and saturated fat.

This includes our policies on nutrition labelling, checkouts and the use of cartoons on packaging.

We have a vast amount of products to support our customers to be healthier and more sustainable.

We are committed to have 70% of our food and drink sales to come from healthier items by 2025.

Community
Giving back to the communities in which we operate by supporting charities and local causes.

In 2020 we announced our new partnership with Barnardos Ireland with the aim of raising €1 million for the charity by 2022. We will achieve this through staff, store, customer, and community fundraising initiatives.

Aldi have been partnered with the Irish Cancer Society since 2016. During this time we have helped to raise €1.5 million for the charity.

We have donated over 2 million meals to charities and community groups through our partnership with FoodCloud.

To read more about our strategic pillars head over to Responsibility | ALDI SOUTH Group