Kellogg Partners for Progress
Originally published in Best Practice Winter 2016 issue
Kellogg works with local charities and NGO’s to run breakfast programmes for children in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Russia, Denmark and Sweden. Tom Idle reports.
“Corporates that ignore the communities in which they operate will no doubt suffer in the future,” says Bruce Learner, Senior CSR and Partnerships Manager for Kellogg in Europe. In fact, addressing local community issues remains a core part of the global food brand’s sustainability commitment – something the company takes just as seriously as implementing climate-smart best practice within its agricultural supply base.
With a long history of giving and investing in community projects – founder W. K. Kellogg is often cited as one of the great philanthropists of the 20th century – the company’s global social responsibility strategy manifests itself in a number of ways.
While the goal is for every ounce of food produced to be sold and consumed, there is sometimes excess food, and that is given to food banks.
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