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Overview
Business review Governance
Financials
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Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2016
Delhaize Belgium
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Delhaize Belgium aims to completely
eliminate waste from its business. In 2016,
they intensified their efforts and engaged
suppliers, associates and customers to
address this complex problem through
projects such as offering imperfect fruits
and vegetables for sale and transforming
an overstock of turkeys - the result
of a decline in consumer preference
associated with unseasonably warm
weather at Christmas - into 26,000
prepared meals to sell in their stores.
Delhaize also expanded its food donation
program to 116 stores and five distribution
centers in 2016 and donated the
equivalent of 2.5 million meals. The brand
even started a program where food no
longer suitable for humans is donated
to zoos for feeding animals. In the
summer, Delhaize engaged associates
by distributing smoothies made from
rescued fruit. They are also educating
customers to reduce food waste at home
through tips on keeping food fresh and
recipes for food that might otherwise be
thrown away.
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The Peapod team is always taking
steps to manage their environmental
impact. Using alternative fuels is one of
the biggest ways they reduce Peapod’s
carbon footprint. In the Midwest market,
they have made great progress in
transitioning to vehicles that use cleaner
fuels with 16 propane trucks and two
compressed natural gas trucks. On the
East Coast, Peapod uses diesel trucks
with zero toxic gas emissions. Across all
markets, the brand has a no-idle policy:
drivers are trained and reminded daily
to shut off the vehicle at every stop to
decrease vehicle emissions and protect
the environment and communities.
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