Global Sustainability Strategy
ALDI’s Global Sustainability Strategy (GSS) with its six strategic dimensions has been designed to embed sustainability into the whole business.
Sustainability is at the heart of our corporate strategy
At ALDI, we are proud to be one of the biggest and most successful retailers worldwide – serving customers across 11 different marketplaces in over 7,000 stores with more than 200,000 employees. We firmly believe that sustainably sourced products should be accessible to everyone. With this in mind, we work in close cooperation with both our business partners and the retail industry. By understanding our supply chains and investing in these partnerships, we are shaping the business for the future.
The Global Sustainability Strategy is an essential pillar of ALDI’s Global Business Strategy and highlights the increasing importance of sustainability for the Group. It focuses on those sustainability challenges and opportunities which are most material for ALDI. Its six dimensions support actions for nature, people, and health.
Human Rights
Human rights are an important dimension of the GSS. The way we operate, purchase goods, and the business partners we choose can impact human rights in our own operations and supply chains.
Climate, Agriculture, and Sustainable Products
We know that retail activities have a significant impact on the environment. At ALDI, we are working towards net-zero by reducing carbon emissions in our own operations and along our supply chains. Our business is connected to many global food systems, and we have made environmental stewardship one of the cornerstones of our Global Sustainability Strategy.
Circularity and Sustainable Packaging
At ALDI, we are taking an end-to-end approach to sell more products that support a circular economy. We have set ambitious goals to increase the material efficiency and circularity of ALDI own-brand product packaging.
Animal Welfare
Meat, dairy and eggs are some of the core products sold by the ALDI SOUTH Group, which is why we are committed to delivering better animal welfare standards across our markets.
Healthy Nutrition
At ALDI, we are determined to make healthy nutrition affordable by offering a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, and foods that suit a whole range of special diets.
Food Waste
Food waste is generated across the ALDI SOUTH Group’s supply chains. We are focusing our actions on internal operations and business practices because this is where we can have the most significant and immediate impact.
Sustainability has multiple facets - establishing safe and fair working conditions, reducing CO2 emissions and improving environmental standards in our supply chains, to name just a few examples. There are many moving parts behind the scenes to put sustainable products and packaging onto every ALDI shelf. Find out what driving sustainability at the ALDI South Group looks like.
Sustainability has multiple facets - establishing safe and fair working conditions, reducing CO2 emissions and improving environmental standards in our supply chains, to name just a few examples. There are many moving parts behind the scenes to put sustainable products and packaging onto every ALDI shelf. Find out what driving sustainability at the ALDI South Group looks like.
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