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Introduction Our people Our planet
Eggs
Due to supply chain disruption during Covid-19, and
wider challenges of the egg market capability to
support, we have not made as much progress as
desired in achieving our cage-free egg commitment.
So to address this we're creating two cage-free egg
steering groups for each supply chain, one for shell
egg and the other for ingredient egg. We've put
together an action plan to drive progress towards
our commitment. The next steps will be to engage
with customers of caged eggs to understand
their plans on eggs and create our roadmap to
cage-free eggs by 2025, as well as to review all
products containing ingredient egg and engage with
suppliers to begin moving away from caged eggs.
Our cage-free egg
commitment
The percentages above show the progress
we've made towards our commitment this year.
All figures are volumes of eggs sold.
We've now delisted enriched colony hard
boiled eggs, so all volume going forwards
will be free-range. Next, we will be looking
at free-range scrambled egg options.
Egg as an ingredient
in own brand products
After reviewing the available data, we're still not
yet able to determine the percentage of products
sold in 2021/22 containing cage-free ingredient
eggs, as we found there were a number of gaps
in the information recorded. Due to this, we are
reaching out to all suppliers of own brand products
to determine an accurate figure of cage-free eggs,
and will be able to report this number shortly.
% of volume sold in
2021/22 financial year
Branded and own brand shell eggs sold from cage-free systems 35.73%
Liquid eggs sold from cage-free systems 26.29%
% of hard boiled eggs sold that are cage-free 72.76%
% of poached eggs sold that are cage-free 100%
% of own brand products sold containing cage-free ingredient eggs Pending review
30%
shell eggs sold
from cage-free
systems
35.73%
shell eggs sold
from cage-free
systems
2020/21
2021/22
Cage-free egg progress
Our customers