HAVE YOU ever been midway through the company’s annual sustainability report and thought: who on earth is going to read this? Well, perhaps you should. “I think we need to think harder about who our audiences are, and who we want them to be,” says Lucinda Hensman, associate director for corporate responsibility and sustainability communications [...]
Glenn Roberts
ON WEDNESDAY grandees of the foodservice industry gathered for the last Footprint Forum of 2012 at the Butchers Hall, sponsored by CH&Co, for a frank and open discussion about Sustainability Reporting in our sector. Tom Beagent advisor in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Sustainability and Climate Change Team took to [...]
RESTAURANTS ARE the least likely foodservice channel to describe their businesses as green. They are also the least likely to have an environmental initiative in place. There has also been a general drop in the number of businesses that could cite a green action that [...]
RESTAURANT OPERATORS are being urged to take part in the Gram Green Paper report 2012. The report will develop a detailed picture of the progress being made in the sector on sustainability issues and the challenges ahead. Gram, a [...]
REPRESENTATIVES OF leading manufacturers and suppliers of catering equipment give their views on where we are in terms of sustainability in the modern commercial kitchen and offer advice on what to look for. Kathy Bowry reports As a nation we love our familiar brands and caterers are no exception to the rule. However, those [...]
The Footprint Awards closed to new entries this week and with over 100 entries to the categories from across the foodservice sector all eyes are now turning to the shortlist and the Awards dinner at the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). Those attending can look forward to an extraordinary evening which aims to celebrate [...]
FootprintComment: What price for energy efficiency?
By footprint on November 12, 2012
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News and tagged FootprintChannel, Glenn Roberts, Gram Green Paper, Gram UK.
GRAM UKs Glenn Roberts outlines the findings of the companys 2012 survey. THE GREEN Paper 2012 revealed that in 2010, 64% of respondents wanted to be greener, but in 2012 that figure has increased to 78%. However, the number of respondents actually practising green initiatives has [...]