Responsibility

Reducing our environmental impact

As one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers, we believe shaping a positive future starts with us.

From our commitment to achieve net zero and embed sustainability across our operations; to our pledge to be a force for good in our communities and add value to the lives of our colleagues; to our continued guarantee to always lead on product excellence, sourcing and manufacturing to the highest standards of care.

BBF’s Baking a Brighter Future plan identifies the key ingredients to drive our business performance through ethical, sustainable and innovative category leadership. Because we believe our company can and should take an active role in baking a brighter future.

BBF Limited ESG Strategy

Reducing our environmental impact

SBTi Targets

We are pleased to share our ambitious targets to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 have been officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) under their FLAG pathway.

Our commitment to reach net zero across our operations and value chain aligns with the most ambitious goal set by the Paris Agreement, keeping global warming to 1.5°C.

Our targets validated by the SBTi include a 58.8% reduction in scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from our operations by 2034, alongside a 35% reduction in scope 3 emissions from our wider supply chain within the same timeframe. Our targets also include reducing our FLAG emissions by 42.42% in 2034. (Based on our Baseline Year from 2022).

BBF also commits to no deforestation across our primary deforestation-linked commodities by 31st December 2025.

BBF is Protecting our Planet

We utilise Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) across UK Operations to minimise our Scope 2 emissions as well as research and implement projects to optimise energy efficiencies.

BBF has a zero waste to land-fill policy and we strive to optimise reuse and recyclability of all our waste streams. We are committed to the WRAP (Waste and Resources Action programme) food waste reduction programme and have invested in infrastructure and partnerships to segregate food surplus from our waste operations. We regularly work with FareShare and Company Shop in the goal to fight hunger and combat food waste.

We also partner with animal feed suppliers to turn surplus food into nutrient rich animal feed.

BBF is committed to offering sustainable packaging options to our customers. There is no use of black plastic in our manufacturing operations and we offer plastic-free alternatives for packaging.

Ethical sourcing and supply chain promise

We’re are members of SEDEX, to ensure we proactively source products and services ethically and sustainably, throughout each tier of our supply chain; while we work with Stronger Together, to ensure we’re doing everything we can to tackle modern slavery in supply chains.

We also encourage and offer segregated sustainable (SG) palm oil to our customers, in addition to palm oil-free options, as well as Fair Trade ingredients, including cocoa.

Regular charitable donations/commitments

Every year we support our chosen charities local to each of the communities in which we operate, making donations while also running fundraisers throughout the year. In addition, we support MacMillan, and make regular charitable donations to various other organisations such as Crisis, including a recent donation of 5,000 individually wrapped cake bars for London’s homeless community, the NHS, which we recently donated 25,000 cakes to as a thank you to our local NHS heroes, and FareShare.

Apprenticeship programs

Supporting and developing the next generation of the baking industry is incredibly important to us, which is why we offer a range of apprenticeship programs across various areas of the business. We currently have 24 colleagues on apprenticeship programs across nine departments, including operations, procurement, accounting, technical, learning and development, supply chain, engineering and NPD.