Responsible sourcing

For over 110 years, we have been supplying our customers with industry-leading, quality-assured sugar.

We work closely with our supply partners to promote ethical and sustainable practices throughout our supply chain, meeting both high standards for quality and sustainability. We audit factories to verify compliance to our policies.

Our policies...

As part of ABF Sugar and Associated British Foods (ABF) plc, there are several policies that all suppliers must adhere to. These range from our Responsible Sourcing Policy to ABF Sugar’s Modern Slavery and Grievance Remediation mechanisms. All our policies can be found and downloaded from here.

Key areas of focus...

Quality assurance

Maintaining traceability

Ensuring food quality and safety

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

We encourage our supply chain partners to use recognised and comparable industry sustainability standards, certifications and farm management approaches which include: Red Tractor, SAI Platform’s FSA, Bonsucro, SEDEX SMETA, VIVE and Fairtrade International.

We are proud to be founding members of SAI Platform’s Regenerative Agriculture Programme - a collaborative and farmer-centred initiative that aims to address the urgent need for an aligned industry recognised, trusted and cost-effective way to assess, measure and report regenerative agriculture outcomes on farms worldwide. You can read more about our past work with SAI Platform here.

Maintaining traceability…

Maintaining traceability…

All our sugar whether homegrown or sourced from abroad goes through a rigorous selection process. We have been sourcing and trading EU and non-EU sugar for over 20 years and have built a network of reliable supply chain partners that meet our high standards for quality, reliability, and integrity.

You can find out the countries that we source sugar from here.

Ensuring food quality and safety…

Ensuring food quality and safety…

We are a reliable partner and produce safe, assured, world-class sugar to our customers around the world every day. As well as delivering an end-to-end supply chain that provides traceability and security of supply, we collaborate with our customers to meet their challenges, helping them to manufacture their products efficiently.

Our product development, breadth and depth of supply enables us to deliver quality sugar 24/7 to our customers, no matter where they are located or their size. We are more than just a supplier, we are a trusted partner.

Case studies

More sustainability areas of focus...

Consuming resources responsibly

Sustainable
agriculture

Our people, communities
and partners

Making Sense
of Sugar
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