Month: March 2024

Happy National Nutrition Month®!

As part of our commitment to nutrition and building nutritional expertise, we are excited to leverage National Nutrition Month®, an initiative sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, to kick off our third annual Nutrition Awareness Month at Griffith Foods. This year’s theme, “Beyond the Table”, explores the comprehensive journey of nutrition from farm to fork—covering aspects of food production, distribution, and the process of selecting food at grocery stores and local markets.

Griffith Foods is dedicated to educating employees on the importance of proper nutrition and healthy food choices. In this video, you’ll hear from Carla Murillo, Regional Nutritionist for our Central America and South America Region, and the facilitator of this year’s National Nutrition Month festivities.

We invite you to join us in Creating Better Together as we strive towards nutritious, delicious and sustainable diets.

Griffith Foods

At Griffith Foods, our purpose defines who we are, what we do, and why we exist, highlighting what makes us distinct and authentic in the marketplace. We help our partners meet the evolving needs and desires of consumers in ways that respect and sustain the planet. Our care and creativity mean we’ll find the right mix of global reach and local impact to serve the earth and nourish all of us who call it home.

Our Sustainability Platform of People, Planet, and Performance guides how we behave, conduct business, and treat people, ensuring that everything we do leads to responsible growth for our entire ecosystem.

People 
We take care of our employees and the communities in which we do business.

Planet 
We all share one Earth, and we take environmental action to responsibly care for it.

Performance 
We operate ethically and strategically to create a positive impact for our business and for all of those with whom we interact.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 21, 2024 /3BL/ – FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, has received the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.

FedEx is being recognized for the second consecutive year and is the only honoree in the Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry. In 2024, 136 honorees were recognized spanning 20 countries and 44 industries.

“This is a great honor for FedEx, and we are pleased to be among this select group of companies with exceptional compliance programs and commitments to advancing business integrity for the second year in a row,” said Justin Ross, Chief Compliance Officer of FedEx Corporation. “Our FedEx team members around the globe have done an incredible job building and maintaining FedEx’s strong culture of compliance and ethics, and we are truly appreciative of this esteemed — and hard-earned — recognition.”

“It’s always inspiring to recognize the World’s Most Ethical Companies®. Through the rigorous review process, we see the dedication of these organizations to continually improving their ethics, compliance, and governance practices to the benefit of all stakeholders,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair. “Companies that elevate best-in-class cultures of ethics and integrity set a standard for corporate citizenship for their peers and competitors to follow. Congratulations to FedEx for achieving this honor and demonstrating that strong ethics is good business.”

Methodology & Scoring
The World’s Most Ethical Companies assessment is grounded in Ethisphere’s proprietary Ethics Quotient®, an extensive questionnaire that requires companies to provide over 240 different proof points on their culture of ethics; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices; ethics and compliance program; diversity, equity, & inclusion; and initiatives that support a strong value chain. That data undergoes further qualitative analysis by our panel of experts who spend thousands of hours vetting and evaluating each year’s group of applicants. This process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify truly best-in-class ethics and compliance practices from organizations across industries and from around the world.

Honorees
To view the full list of this year’s honorees, please visit the World’s Most Ethical Companies website, at https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees.

About FedEx Corp.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. With annual revenue of $88 billion, the company offers integrated business solutions through operating companies competing collectively, operating collaboratively and innovating digitally as one FedEx. Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 500,000 employees to remain focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. FedEx is committed to connecting people and possibilities around the world responsibly and resourcefully, with a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2040. To learn more, please visit fedex.com/about.

About Ethisphere
Ethisphere is the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that strengthen corporate brands, build trust in the marketplace, deliver business success. Ethisphere has deep expertise in measuring and defining core ethics standards using data-driven insights that help companies build strong cultures of ethics and integrity. Ethisphere honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition program, provides a community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), and showcases trends and best practices in ethics with Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere also advances business performance through data-driven assessments, guidance, and benchmarking against its unparalleled data: the Culture Quotient dataset reflecting the ethical business practices of 3+ million employees around the world; and the Ethics Quotient dataset, featuring 240+ data points on the ethics, compliance, social, and governance practices of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. For more information, visit https://ethisphere.com.

March 21, 2024 /3BL/ – On International Day of Forests, Ceres today announced its support for the FOREST Act, bipartisan federal legislation that would leverage U.S. trade policy to protect global biodiversity and the climate by restricting the importation of foreign products from land that has been illegally deforested overseas.

“Illegal deforestation puts the global economy and climate at risk,” said Zach Friedman, director of federal policy at Ceres. “American trade policy should support the nation’s efforts to build an abundant, clean economy across all sectors, including by leveraging U.S. leadership on environmental stewardship, rule of law, and forest protection. We applaud Sens. Schatz and Braun and Reps. Blumenauer and Fitzpatrick for their bipartisan, bicameral leadership in introducing this legislation. We look forward to continuing to work with leading businesses across sectors and policymakers on both sides of the aisle to grow support for smart policies that protect U.S. farmers, ranchers, and foresters and provide greater transparency for U.S. consumers.”

The FOREST (Fostering Overseas Rule of Law and Environmentally Sound Trade) Act was introduced in both chambers of the U.S. Congress last December with bipartisan support.

“Corporate action on deforestation has not been urgent enough — the FOREST Act will help drive that necessary action while bringing the U.S. more into alignment with other deforestation regulations recently enacted in the European Union and U.K.,” said Meryl Richards, program director, food and forests at Ceres. “In addition, the regulation will help level the playing field for companies sourcing deforestation-linked commodities in the U.S. by requiring that key supply chains be free of illegal deforestation, rather than leaving it to voluntary action. Companies need to do this work to meet their climate commitments and mitigate the escalating risks of nature and biodiversity loss.”

In November 2023, Ceres released its Deforestation Scorecard: Assessing Corporate Action on Deforestation Amid Growing Regulatory Risk that revealed few of the largest global companies are taking ambitious action to tackle commodity-driven deforestation and drive progress toward a net zero economy. After assessing dozens of major companies across 15 industries, Ceres found most of them lack comprehensive no-deforestation policies, despite the importance of these policies in companies removing deforestation from their supply chains as well as adhering to the new regulations worldwide.

However, some leading companies are supporting policy solutions to deforestation. The Sustainable Food Policy Alliance — a coalition of major food companies Danone North America, Mars Inc., Nestlé USA, and Unilever United States that champions policy solutions that improve sustainability in agriculture and supply chains — this week voiced support for legislation that meets the goals of the FOREST Act.

“The Fostering Overseas Rule of Law and Environmentally Sound Trade (FOREST) Act represents an opportunity for the United States to address deforestation within agricultural supply chains. Sustainable Food Policy Alliance (SFPA) members agree that a legislative approach in the United States can provide a credible framework with reasonable incentives and penalties to prevent illegal deforestation and ensure harmonization and enforcement between international jurisdictions,” the SFPA said in a statement. “The FOREST Act leverages expertise from across the federal government to support the global transition of the supply base to more responsibly sourced forest-derived commodities, which will in turn aid our individual and collective efforts to create business pathways to meet science-based targets, achieve net zero emissions, and reduce our impact on the planet.”

Ceres has also worked closely with food and apparel companies in recent years to support public policy that advances climate, biodiversity, water, soil health, and other sustainability goals in the agricultural sector, including by calling for greater investment and access for climate-smart agriculture programs in the upcoming reauthorization of the Farm Bill and conservation funding in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Leading businesses support efforts to reduce these impacts, which hurt crop yields and supply chains, and to bolster farmers’ role as leaders in implementing solutions that meet the growing demands of consumers.

About Ceres

Ceres is a nonprofit organization working with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. Through our powerful networks and global collaborations of investors, companies and nonprofits, we drive action and inspire equitable market-based and policy solutions throughout the economy to build a just and sustainable future. For more information, visit ceres.org and follow @CeresNews.