It’s our vision to be the UK’s number one chilled prepared food company. We know that diligent and responsible leadership will be critical in getting us there.

We make food to feel good, taste good and do good. For everyone. We stay true to this purpose by taking our role as a responsible business seriously. This means leading with confidence, thinking ahead and embracing everything there is to learn in our fast-moving sector. We give equal emphasis to the way we operate as well as our financial results, ensuring we remain both profitable and sustainable, so that we can continue delivering positive impact long into the future.

We want to be accountable for the targets and ambitions we’ve set as a group. With a robust system of governance in place, we can drive cultural change in our people and processes, and ensure the business is on track to meet our goals.

Ultimate responsibility for our ESG strategy lies at Executive and Group Board level, overseen by our Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). Our Group Head of ESG reports to our CPO and Executive Board on a quarterly basis.

We’re committed to being transparent about our progress, publicly disclosing against global frameworks TCFD, SBTi and SASB, and learning from these disclosures to focus activities on our net zero and social value goals. ESG is an increasingly important consideration for our customers, consumers, investors and colleagues, so transparency is critical. As a leading food company, credibility and trust is integral to Compleat so we need to be held to account by all of our stakeholders.

While our Human Resources and Ethical teams take a lead role on upholding human rights, all our departments are accountable and work together to achieve our goals. In 2024/25, we revised our ESG strategy to include human rights within Governance instead of Social. This reflects our intention to embed human rights into a business-as-usual approach.

We’re committed to working collaboratively to help increase our effectiveness in tackling modern slavery. We’ve Human Rights Champions at each of our UK sites, and every month we hold group ethical meetings to focus on key human rights issues within our supply chains. We’re members of Sedex, FNET (Food Network on Ethical Trade) and the Association of Labour Providers (ALP) and play an active role in other collaborative working groups across the industry and more widely. Our Modern Slavery Statement is published on our website.