BD foods' Ethical Policy

Your Trust In Us

BD Foods recognises that our commercial and corporate activities impact on our stakeholders – those individuals or groups who are affected directly and indirectly by our activities and achievements.

    We are committed to balancing the ethical and social components of our business. To ensure that we are acting in an ethical manner at all times, we have produced an Ethical Trading Policy to clearly define the measures we have in place to reassure our stakeholders that we act in an ethical manner above and beyond our basic legal requirements.

As a socially responsible company our stakeholders have a right to expect:

• Products manufactured and sourced by BD Foods are produced under working conditions that are hygienic and safe.

• All workers involved in the production of BD Foods products, from direct suppliers and sub-contractors, through to manufacturing site and supply chain, are treated with full consideration to their basic human rights.

• BD Foods acts in an ethical manner above and beyond basic legal requirements.

• BD Foods is therefore committed to following and implementing their principals of the Ethical Tradition Initiative Base Code (although we are not members of the ETI).

• Our policy sets out BD Foods commitment to its stakeholders, setting out the measures we are taking to ensure that we are acting in an ethical manner.

COMPLETE ETHICAL TRADING POLICY  296kb pdf file

BD foods' Environmental Policy

Carbon Action Plan

BD Foods is wholly committed to creating a working environment that greatly reduces its impact on the environment. We have a Carbon Committee that meets regularly to monitor and implement methods to cut our carbon emissions and to save on energy. As part of our commitment to reducing carbon emissions we introduced the Carbon Action Plan in November 2007, the year before the Climate Change Act was passed, and we are continually looking at new ways to further reduce our carbon footprint.

Improving Efficiency

However big or small, we are continually implementing improvements in our carbon efficiency:

• Heat pump installed to take heat from the compressor room and convert to hot air to be utilised elsewhere.

• Removal of exterior sign lighting. Street lighting adequate for purpose.

• Efficiency of refrigeration and freezer units to be checked regularly.

• All portable heaters decommissioned.

• Fridge and freezer interior lights – switches removed and replaced with sensors.