Our Approach

Premier Foods is committed to managing its business in a socially responsible manner; indeed we believe strongly that 'sustainability in everything we do' is one of our key strategic priorities.

Our Business and Sustainability Approach

In 2009, we established four core themes on which we intended to build our sustainability programme, these being: Marketplace, Environment, Workplace and Community.

For each themed area, we identified the key issues facing our business and defined both short and long-term key performance indicators, ambitions and targets. In this section of our corporate website we have provided detailed information on how we have progressed, against the objectives we set in 2010, and set out future plans.

Our Business

Premier Foods is the UK’s largest food producer. We manufacture, distribute and sell a wide range of branded and non-branded foods. Our vision is to be “the best in British food with brands you really love”.

We supply a broad range of customers including the major multiple retailers, wholesalers, foodservice providers and other food manufacturers. Premier Foods owns iconic British brands such as Hovis, Batchelors, Mr Kipling, Bisto, Ambrosia, Branston, Sharwood’s, Hartley’s, Oxo and many more. We also produce food under licence, for example; Loyd Grossman and Cadbury’s.

Non-branded products comprise retailer ‘Own Label’ and business to business sales.

We employ around 16,000 people and operate from over 60 sites across the UK and Ireland.
The Premier Foods Group is organised into three divisions, these being:

Grocery: Comprising shelf stable or ‘‘ambient’’ grocery products;

Hovis: Comprising wrapped bread, morning goods and bulk and bagged flour; and

Chilled: Comprising chilled products and our retailer branded chilled ready meal and
cake businesses.

Our Business Strategy

The Group's business strategy is to:

• to grow our branded sales faster than their respective markets by investing in and strengthening our brands and their relevance to today’s consumers;

• to gain competitive advantage by utilising our consumer insight and scale to deliver value to customers and to work more effectively with suppliers; and

• to deliver efficiency benefits such that supply chain costs and overheads are held flat or decline while volumes grow.

Premier Foods has made significant progress in aligning our approach to corporate social responsibility with our overall business strategy and company vision in order to deliver long-term and sustainable, business growth.