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2 EURO CATER CSR-REPORT Contents Contents P. 3 Comments from the management P. 4 About the company P. 6 CSR strategy and focus areas P. 9 Sustainable trading Food safety Supply chain management Sustainable product range P. 14 Sustainable operations Energy Transport Waste and food waste P. 19 Good workplace Skills Sense of community Health and safety P. 22 Accounting policies P. 23 Company profile Published by: Euro Cater Holding A/S Vidalsvej 6, 9230 Svenstrup, Denmark www.euro-cater.com In addition to serving as Euro Cater’s annual CSR report, this report serves as our statutory CSR report pursuant to section 99a of the Danish Financial Statements Act (Årsregnskabsloven) and section 10 of the Swedish Annual Accounts Act (Årsredovisningslagan).
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EURO CATER CSR-REPORT 3 Comments from the management Respect for food and people T he production, trade and consumption of food is a natural basic element in our everyone’s lives. And we are seeing an increasing focus on and demand that our food be healthy and sustainable. Euro Cater takes pride in being part of this development, and we are very humble about our role as the supplier of the raw ingredients and solutions our customers need. Our mission is to make it easy for our customers to serve healthy, inspiring and responsibly produced food. This is a journey the entire industry is undertaking, and we see it as our role to constantly strive to become a little more sustainable in our operations and product range. While continually making it easy and attractive for customers to make slightly more sustainable choices. We will always offer a full range of products at attractive prices. So our contribution to more sustainable food consumption derives from a combination of becoming more sustainable in our own operations and helping our customers to do the same. During the past year, we developed a new policy for eggs. We are committed to phasing out cage eggs in our own production by 2020. At the same time, we are also committed to phasing out cage eggs as commodities by 2025; this applies to liquid egg products as well as eggs in their shells. During the year, our Danish webshop was upgraded to help minimise food waste so that we can sell products that are approaching their expiry date at favourable prices. We believe this will make a difference to food waste in our part of the value chain. We have also made it easier for customers to choose more sustainable products in the webshop. With a single keystroke, customers can select GMO-free (not genetically modified) products, FairTrade products, organic products or MSC/ASC-certified fish and seafood. We expect this to boost the sales of sustainable variants. We are committed to phasing out cage eggs in our own production by 2020. Steen D. Pedersen CEO, Euro Cater/Dansk Cater Henrik Ellegaard CFO, Euro Cater Lars Carlsson CEO, Svensk Cater
