Sustainability 101 Case Example: Perdue Farms
Perdue Farms is the family-owned parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness. The company is “dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for everyone we touch through innovative food and agricultural products,” and had sales of approximately $6 billion in 2014.
“We were sustainable before sustainability was cool… We had tracked our water and energy usage for a very long time, and were always looking for ways to reduce them. Back then, it was called “frugality.” Now, we’ve expanded those basic metrics into a comprehensive environmental scorecard used to assess the performance and environmental impact of each of our facilities against annual improvement goals that are set. These improvements, as measured by the scorecard results, are a core part of our management incentive program.”
[This case example originally appeared in GEMI’s Sustainability 101 Quick Guide.]
