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Contents Chairman Our Response Our Our Water Our Portfolio/ World Climate Sustainable People & Operations

Our Portfolio/ World Climate Sustainable People & Operations Data Reporting
& CEO to COVID-19 Priorities & Company Leadership Reducing Without Agriculture Communities Highlights Appendix Frameworks
Message Progress Added Sugar Waste & SDGs

Progress Toward Our 2020 Goal Collaborating to Scale Solutions


We track progress against our sustainable While this has had an impact on our Our complex agricultural supply chain
sourcing goal for 12 global priority 1 performance in cane sugar and provides ingredients from countries
ingredients, which represent about corn, which account for a significant around the world, involving large-
80% of our total annual agricultural proportion of our overall volume, we and small-scale farmers and supplier
ingredient purchases. In 2020, 56% have improved across most of our other companies, among other actors. Many of
of these ingredient volumes were priority ingredients. the risks in our supply chain are systemic
sustainably sourced, up from 54% in 2019 and can only be tackled effectively
and 8% in 2013 at the beginning of the While we’re proud of the progress through industry alignment and pre-
program. we’ve made toward our ambitious 2020 competitive collaboration. In addition
goal, we have not achieved it for all to working directly with our suppliers
2020 has been a challenging year, ingredients. We continue to push forward to encourage sustainable practices, we
with COVID-19 impacting the ability with our integrated approach to have also helped to build the institutional
of our suppliers to arrange on-farm ensuring sustainable practices across capacity to support the transition to
assessments, as well as our ability our agricultural supply chain. sustainable agriculture, for example, Promoting a Simply™
to meet with suppliers and farmers. through collective action in the Bonsucro Sustainable Almond Supply
and SAI platforms.
As consumers seek out alternatives to
dairy, almond beverages have become
increasingly popular. Almond milk has
PROGRESS TOWARD OUR SUSTAINABLE SOURCING GOAL2
a lower environmental footprint but
relatively high water needs compared
to other dairy alternatives. Partnering
2019 2020 GOAL: 100% with our supplier, Treehouse California
Almonds, and our Simply brand, which
sources all of its almonds from California,
100% 100%
97% in 2020 we began a water replenishment
92% 90% project in the watershed of one of our
82% 83% 82% 84% primary almond sourcing locations. When
79%
79% up and running in 2021, this project alone
75%
75%
will help replenish the equivalent of
67%
67% 67% 69%
69%
approximately 20% of the water used to
60% grow and process Simply’s almond supply.
50%
44% 44% Working with Treehouse California
39% Almonds, we have also encouraged the
32% 31% 34% growers in our supply chain to participate
31%
in the California Almond Sustainability
19% Program (CASP), which provides tools for
sustainable practices and performance
tracking. By the end of 2020, 100% of
the acres supplying our company were
CANE MANGO GRAPE3 ORANGE APPLE CORN LEMON BEET TEA PULP & COFFEE SOYBEANS participating in the program.
SUGAR SUGAR PAPER4

1 Our sustainable agriculture program started back in 2013 with 2 Data is based on supplier reporting according to our assurance 3 The sustainably sourced percentage for grape was incorrectly
14 global priority ingredients. Due to changes in our business requirements, which is consolidated and internally validated. reported as 41% in our 2019 report, and the 2020 report FOCUS
and portfolio, palm oil and stevia purchases have been either Results can fluctuate due to changes in volumes and sourcing corrects this figure to 31%.
discontinued or significantly reduced. We do not include them origins while we get new suppliers on board with our AREA
in the reporting on a global level. requirements. 4 92% sustainably sourced Pulp & Paper relates to the ~83% WATER
of our global purchase volume for which we have data. In 2019,
we had data for ~75% of our global purchase volume.

See additional performance indicators in the Data Appendix.  

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