Material sustainability topics
Our approach
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To ensure we chart a strategic
course that benefits both our
businesses and our broad group
of stakeholders, we examine the
relevance of sustainability topics
through an annual materiality
analysis.
Overview
Business review Governance
Financials
Investors
Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2016
Lower
Impact on Ahold Delhaize
Higher
Other
Through this process, we engage with our
stakeholders to understand what social,
economic, and environmental topics are
important in their view, and to evaluate
the significance of the impact we have on
customers, associates, communities and
the environment. Identifying our material
sustainability topics and integrating them into
our business strategies keeps us focused so
we can deliver on our commitment to running
sustainable businesses that are successful in
the long term.
Following our merger in mid-2016, we carried
out a process to determine our material
sustainability issues. We analyzed the issues
Ahold and Delhaize Group had identified
in the past, checked them against recent
evolutions in topics relevant to our businesses
(such as the UN Sustainable Development
Goals), and worked with stakeholders to
develop an Ahold Delhaize materiality matrix.
In 2017, we will reevaluate our material topics
and carry out a full materiality analysis,
involving our broad group of stakeholders:
customers, associates, investors, suppliers
and representatives of civil society.
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Healthy eating
Food waste
Healthy inclusive workplace
Essentials
Human labor rights
Product sustainabilit
Very high
Healthy lifestyle
Associate engagement
Clean safe stores
Food waste
High
Climate change
Product innovation
Donations
Moderate
Compliance
regulation
Product
supply chain
transparency
Affordable
healthy product
Packaging
waste
Product safety
quality
Ethical behavior
integrity
Associate development
diversity
