Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity

Our recipe for an inclusive workplace

We’re proud to create an environment where every one can bring their authentic self to work, free from judgment. Regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, age, or sexuality, we ensure that all our employees feel valued and empowered to achieve their ambitions.

Your voice matters here! We conduct annual employee engagement surveys to hear from every corner of our organisation.

We’ve created steering groups for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, and Health & Wellbeing to support our People Strategy. Our steering groups are made up of people from all areas and levels of the business to deliver strategies on how we can continue to become more diverse and inclusive, while also ensuring that we’re accountable for delivering on our promises.

Boosting engagement through forums and communication

We’ve also focused on employee engagement as we have established employee forums across all our sites to nurture open forms of communication between the business and our employees. Along with various digital communication platforms to ensure we’re able to reach every employee with information, support and opportunities available regardless of their role within the business.

We also outlined and updated our policy:

• Ensure Diverse representation into executive, leadership, technical and board roles
• Strengthen Leadership Accountability and Capability
• Enable Equality of Opportunity through Fairness and Transparency
• Promote Openness and Tackle Discriminatory behaviour
• Foster belonging through clear support for EDI

Ensuring that every voice is heard.

Driving DE&I change through our partnership with Diversity in Grocery

We’ve also partnered with Diversity in Grocery. The Programme is delivered and facilitated by GroceryAid, with the support of the Strategy Steering Group and three Workstream Steering Groups that ensure it is meeting both the current and future needs of Partners across the Food Industry. Collaboration is the strength behind delivering change across the industry and Diversity in Grocery offers a community of over 3,000 change makers, the to share activity, connect across the partnership, utilise the growing library of resources including policies, guides, toolkits and podcasts. To help promote, challenge and develop DE&I across the food industry.

Bridging the Gender Pay Gap

While the food manufacturing sector has traditionally been male-dominated, we’re proud to be changing the script. Our approach to recruitment, development, and reward has enabled us to achieve statistics significantly better than the GB average. We’re particularly proud that many senior roles in our business are held by strong, talented women.