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Introduction by the CEO


This is the tenth Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report from Nutreco. Our first report, at the beginning of the decade, made Nutreco a pioneer in our market sector and our reporting activities (see inside back cover) have helped raise the profile of CSR and its relevance to our industry. It is appropriate in this tenth report, as we enter the next decade, that we are able to describe a significant advance in our long and sometimes challenging sustainability journey.

In 2009, Nutrec made a strategic choice to embed sustainability throughout Nutreco operations. We began by formulating a sustainability policy, set targets for the managers and initiated a programme to facilitate the embedding process and ensure it is change that lasts.

 

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Nutreco profile

Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed. Our advanced feed solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality, innovation and sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for agriculture and aquaculture. Experience across 100 years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and experience for building its future.
Nutreco employs almost 9,700 people in 30 countries, with sales in 80 countries. Nutreco is listed on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam with annual revenues of EUR 4.5 billion in 2009.

 


FEEDING THE FUTURE

Our company slogan, Feeding the Future, is the essence of Nutreco, expressing a purpose to align and inspire our activities of today. We will develop advanced feed solutions that contribute to feeding a growing world population with wholesome, nutritious meat, fish, milk and eggs.

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About this report

The Nutreco Sustainability Report 2009 is complementary to the Nutreco Annual Report 2009, which includes coverage of management aspects such as corporate governance and risk profile. In this report we describe the Nutreco approach to sustainability in the sense that covers environmental, employee and social issues. Sustainability in economic terms is addressed in the Annual Report. Read more


 

 

In this report, these symbols indicate relevance to Millennium Development Goals. Read more