Category: Civil society
UK charity Food Foundation’s call comes as healthy and sustainable food is rising up the investor agenda UK charity Food Foundation’s call comes as healthy and sustainable food is rising up the investor agenda UK charity Food Foundation’s call comes as healthy and sustainable food is rising up the investor agenda
Oct 20th, 2021
UK charity Food Foundation is calling on investors to engage collectively with the food sector and UK Government to push for mandatory reporting of healthy and sustainable food sales, RI can reveal.
The call to action comes as the charity, which focuses on policy and business practice in the UK’s food industry, has in the past 12 months tracked progress by 29 UK food retail, foodservice and restaurant chain businesses across themes relating to the transition to a healthy and sustainable food system.
The topic is rapidly rising up the agenda of investors. For example, a £140bn investor coalition including BMO Global Asset Management, Rathbone Greenbank and JOHCM earlier this year saw supermarket giant Tesco committing to increase sales of healthier food and drink products across all its group retail business after the investors put pressure on the company through the UK’s first health-focused shareholder resolution. The investors withd…