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    ICA Gruppen’s road transports to be fossil-free by 2030

    By 2030 at the latest, all road transports for ICA Gruppen’s Swedish companies will be fossil-free. In the metropolitan areas in Sweden the ambition is to achieve this goal already by 2025. With a new fuel strategy, ICA Gruppen is charting out a clear direction for developing its environmental work surrounding transports. The strategy takes a comprehensive approach to road transports and also encompasses suppliers’ transports to ICA’s warehouses. To achieve this goal ICA will increase its investments in new technology and fossil-free fuels, among other measures. The transport

    ICA to cut its food waste in half by 2025

    ICA Gruppen is adopting a new Group goal for reduced food waste which calls for a halving of food waste from warehouses and stores in Sweden and the Baltic countries by 2025 compared with the base year 2016. A few key aspects for achieving this new goal include smarter purchasing algorithms, the creation of so-called circular products, and routines and tools for being able to identify at an early stage foods that are at risk of being wasted.ICA Gruppen has worked actively on reducing food waste for many years, but now the Group is adopting both a concrete goal and a methodology for

    Greater sustainability focus in ICA Gruppen’s management and board

    To further strengthen ICA’s sustainability work, Kerstin Lindvall has been named Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer and as a member of ICA Gruppen’s Management Team. In conjunction with this a sustainability committee is being formed in ICA Gruppen’s board to increase focus on CR issues.“Our ambition is to be a leader in corporate responsibility, an area in which we currently have a prominent position. But to ensure a sustainability perspective on all matters, we have now brought Kerstin onto ICA Gruppen’s management team and are creating a board committee dedicated to these issues,”

    ICA receives UN award for Climate right project

    The UN today announced that ICA has received an award for its Climate right project. The award will be presented in the middle of November at the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Klimaträtt has helped and inspired the residents of an apartment building in Uppsala to reduce their climate impact in a simple manner.Climate right was cited as one of the most innovative and scalable global examples of what companies can do to address and create solutions for reduced environmental impact. ICA and Klimaträtt were one of the winners in the Information and Communication Technology

    ICA Gruppen’s operations to be climate-neutral in five years

    ICA Gruppen has taken the decision to be climate-neutral by 2020.* This encompasses the climate impact of operations in stores, pharmacies, warehouses and offices from areas such as refrigerants, electricity, goods transports and business travel in both the Swedish and Baltic operations. The decrease will be measured using a science-based method developed by the UN and WWF, among others.ICA will achieve this by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and through more efficient use of resources as well as by climate compensating the climate impact than cannot be eliminated in ICA’s operations by

    Organic range continues to grow

    ICA Gruppen presents its Sustainability Report for the second quarter of 2015 today. The report covers important events and initiatives within the environment, quality, ethical trade, health and community engagement.“It is now three years since we started publishing a quarterly report of our sustainability initiatives in line our aim to both increase transparency and improve the follow-up structure. But still what is important here is not the reporting, but the actual results we achieve. And here there is a lot to be pleased about. Thanks to long-term and targeted efforts within energy,

    Increased focus on health

    Today, ICA Gruppen presents its report on ICA’s sustainability activities for the third quarter of 2014. The report covers significant events and activities within environment, quality, ethical trade, health and social engagement.“Health is an increasingly important issue for our customers. When we announced yesterday that we are acquiring the retail pharmacy Apotek Hjärtat, this should be seen in the light of ICA’s wish to strengthen the customer offering within health and wellness,” says Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen. “But ICA Gruppen also took many other initiatives focused on

    Several cooperation projects for ethical trading

    Today, ICA Gruppen presents its report on ICA’s sustainability activities for the second quarter of 2014. The report covers significant events and activities within environment, quality, ethical trade, health and social engagement.“Cooperation was in focus in many ways during the second quarter. Cooperation with other companies and community stakeholders means that we can achieve our sustainability targets more quickly,” says Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen. Read more about: · ICA Sweden has started a cooperation with the Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF). The aim is to combine

    Initiatives to support customers in making sustainable choices

    Today, ICA Gruppen presents its report on ICA’s sustainability activities for the first quarter of 2014. The report covers significant events and activities within environment, quality, ethical trade, health and social engagement.“The year has started well for ICA Gruppen. We have achieved the Group’s climate target and carried out several initiatives to support customers in making sustainable choices. It is Important that ICA’s customers can make sustainable and informed choices” says Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen. Important events in brief: · ICA took a major initiative to

    ICA Sweden funds local sustainability work in developing countries

    ICA is taking the next step in sustainability work by being the first Nordic grocery player to sign an agreement with IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, to partially fund, without intermediaries, sustainability projects in developing countries and make a social difference on site at suppliers.“We want to help our customers make sustainable choices to contribute to a positive development in the world. This is a priority issue for both ICA’s customers and ICA,” says Anders Svensson, CEO, ICA Sweden. ICA has worked for a long time with quality assurance of products and suppliers in high-

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