Airline catering, on-board retail and hospitality product provider gategroup has published its second annual ESG report, with CEO Christoph Schmitz explaining: “These milestone are among the early measures of our progress as we redefine gategroup’s business parameters, reinvigorate our corporate culture, and integrate ESG throughout the organization’s people and business strategies”.
During 2023, gategroup continues to refine initiatives first detailed in 2022. Over the course of the year, it defined ‘short-and-medium term targets on environmental management’ and earned an overall bronze rating from sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis. It also added its name to the cross-industry joint statement to the EU ‘towards smarter regulation of international catering waste (Category 1) in aviation’.
By 2025, the company pledges to have transparency on sustainability performance of gategroup’s Tier 1 suppliers covering 70% of procurement spend, as well as eliminating single-use plastics. During this year’s milestone Flight 100 (Virgin Atlantic’s transatlantic 100% SAF-powered flight), gategroup also partnered with ICF to ‘gather all relevant catering- and waste-related data and conduct a comparative life cycle analysis’ of traditional plastic products versus the alternatives trialled on the flight.
Gategroup publishes 2nd annual ESG report
