About our reporting

This is our seventh annual Sustainability Report and it describes our approach to sustainability and the key actions we have taken during 2013 to advance responsible and sustainable practices in our global business. It is designed to provide our stakeholders with a transparent account of our impacts on society and environment. In all cases, data relates to the 2013 calendar year unless otherwise stated. Our last report was published during 2013 covering the calendar year 2012.

In developing this report, we have considered input from our primary stakeholders, employees and consumers, and additional stakeholders where appropriate. The Corporate Responsibility Director and other Strauss Group executives determined the selection of content for this report based on an assessment of material issues, including those known to be important to stakeholders and following specific consultation with experts on priority sustainability issues.

This report is in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 sustainability reporting guidelines, at Core level, that represents the most advanced sustainability reporting framework available today. The Global Reporting Initiative is a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder organization which acts to increase the level of business transparency through sustainability reporting among companies throughout the world. The main tool for assimilating sustainability reporting is the GRI reporting framework, which contains detailed guidelines for reporting on sustainability impacts and provides a consistent structure that thousands of companies around the world use to disclose performance related to sustainability. Over 7,000 sustainability reports were published in 2013 by companies all over the world, many of them using the GRI framework. The most recent version of the GRI framework, G4, was launched in May 2013. For more information, please see: www.globalreporting.org.

This report is in accordance with the principles for defining report content set out in the G4 guidelines. These are: Materiality (the issues most important for our long-term business growth and which are of most importance to stakeholders), Stakeholder Inclusiveness (responding to stakeholder expectations and interests), Sustainability Context (presenting our performance in the wider contexts of sustainability issues) and Completeness (inclusion of all the information which reflects significant economic impacts in order to enable stakeholders to assess our performance).

We do not seek external assurance for our report, due to resource limitations, but external consultants and reporting experts assist in our report preparation and support environmental data collection including scrutiny of data and data collection processes. This report also complies with our commitment to submit an annual Communication on Progress to the UN Global Compact.

More information about Strauss Group can be found on our corporate global website, www.strauss-group.com, and the websites of our subsidiary companies (accessible via our global website).

Notes to data collection

Environmental data collection includes all the sites listed in the table below on the basis of operational control, and covers more than 90% of our total production operations.

Country	Location	Main Activity	Built Area (m2)	Included in our data collection
				2011	2012	2013
Australia	Cavan, South Australia	Production of dips**	2,000	N/A	X	V
Brazil	Santa Luzia, near Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state	Production of roast and ground coffee and cappuccino.	12,800	V	V	V
Brazil	In Eusébio, in the state of Ceará	Production of roast and ground coffee.	4,650	V	V	V
Brazil	Natal in Rio Grande do Norte state	Production of coffee, chocolate and cappuccino.	8,100	V	V	V
Brazil	Nova Iguaçu, in the state of Rio de Janeiro	Production of filter paper for filter coffee.	3,150	V	V	V
Brazil	Mossoro Rio Grande do Norte state	Production of corn products and drink powders.	13,200	X	X	X
Brazil	Varginha, in Minas Gerais state	Processing of green coffee.	7,300	X	X	X
China	Shanzen	Strauss Water offices and outsourced production.		X	X	X
China	ShangHai	Strauss Water offices.		X	X	X
Germany	Upahl	Instant coffee production	11,608	N/A	X	V
Israel	Achihud	Production of dairy products.	21,000	V	V	V
Israel	Nazareth	Production of chocolate, candy and gum.	35,000	V	V	V
Israel	Beit Shemesh	Max Brenner chocolates.	2,300	V	V	V
Israel	Shderot	Salty snacks production	10,000	V	V	V
Israel	Yotvata	Production of milk beverages and enriched milk.	6,100	V	V	V
Israel	Carmiel	Production of salads.	9,000	V	V	V
Israel	Sde Nitzan	Cutting, mixing and packaging of fresh refrigerated vegetables.	2,560	V	V	V
Israel	Yad Mordechai	Production of honey products, olive oil and jams.	4,300	V	V	V
Israel	Haifa Bay	Refrigerated distribution in Israel.	4,735	V	V	V
Israel	Acre	Logistics center	8,695		V	V
Israel	Petach Tikva	Refrigerated distribution in Israel.	5,790	V	V	V
Israel	Beit Shemesh	Refrigerated distribution in Israel.	390	V	V	V
Israel	Beersheba	Refrigerated distribution in Israel.	4,920	V	V	V
Israel	Zerifin	Refrigerated distribution in Israel.	19,000	V	V	V
Israel	Safed	Production of instant coffee	5,300	V	V	V
Israel	Lod	Production of roast and ground coffee and choco powder.	4,441	V	V	V
Israel	Petach Tikvah	Corporate Head Offices	2,500	V	V	V
Israel	Nativ HaLamed He Kibbutz	Strauss Water plant	6,092	V	V	V
Israel	Or Yehuda	Strauss Water headquarters	6,760	V	V	V
Israel	Lod	Strauss Water storage unit	1,250	X	V	V
Mexico	Mexico City	Production of chilled salads and dips	1,639	N/A	X	X
Poland	In Swadzim, near Poznan	Production of roast and ground coffee.	11,540	V	V	V
Romania	Bucharest	Production of roast and ground coffee and instant coffee.	4,365	V	V	V
Russia	Strunino, Vladimir District	Production of roast and ground coffee and a packaging plant for freeze-dried instant coffee, chicory, etc.	13,370	X	X	V
Serbia	Simanovci, near Belgrade	Production of roast and ground coffee.	8,500	V	V	V
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Strauss Coffee Global HQ		N/A	X	V
UK	Guildford, Surrey	Strauss Water Offices and sales organization		X	X	X
U.S.	Virginia	Production of chilled salads and dips.	10,630	V	V	V
U.S.	Virginia***	Sabra headquarters		V	V	V
U.S.	Oceanside, California****	Production of salsa dips.	3,700	X	X	X
U.S.	Farmingdale, NY****	Production of dairy dips.	3,900	X	X	X
U.S.	Philadelphia, Boston, Las Vegas, New York City	Max Brenner Headquarters and Chocolate Bars *****		V	V	V

* In addition, selected data has been collected from 55 points of retail coffee sales in Israel.

** Data from Obela Australia includes only total employee numbers, energy and water consumption and GHG emissions.

*** Data from Sabra headquarters excludes environmental data.

**** Our Sabra Plants in Oceanside, California, and Farmingdale, NY currently have no reporting infrastructure in place. These sites constitute less than 10% of Sabra production.

***** Data from Max Brenner U.S. excludes environmental data.

Energy consumption: Biomass used in Israel and Serbia is classed as renewable biomass.

Carbon Emissions: Carbon emission conversions use latest available GHG Protocol conversion factors in each country of operation, with the exception of Israel, where locally published electricity company conversion factors are used. Renewable biomass has zero carbon emissions (CDP).

Employees

In our 2013 Annual Report, the number of direct employees was reported as 13,565 in our global operations including contract and supervised employees, and 12,426 direct employees. Employee data in this report is based on the total of 12,556 direct employees. This gap is due to minor differences in reporting cut-off dates between the different Strauss companies and differences in the scope of data covered in both reports.

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