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 # 2016 Co-op Way Report

 

##### Our ethics and sustainability performance

 

 

 May 10, 2017 9:00 AM ET

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The Co-op is one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives, with over 4 million active members. Its purpose is ‘Championing a better way of doing business for you and your communities’.  
  
Today the Co-op announces the launch of its latest sustainability report, available as a summary Overview and also a more detailed Performance Data section. With a focus on how the 'Co- op Way' is a better way of doing business, the Report details progress and performance across nine key priorities.   
  
Highlights include:

1. **Business ethics and behaviour** - Fair Tax Max awarded for openness and honesty on tax
2. **Community** - £9m donated to local community causes in the UK
3. **Ethical trade and human rights** - a unique commitment to source 100% Fairtrade cocoa across all co-op brand products, and a campaign to support victims of modern slavery
4. **Healthy living** - a campaign to tackle loneliness in partnership with the British Red Cross, with over £5.5m raised to date to help do this
5. **Food and farming** - unlike any major supermarket, Co-op brand fresh meat is 100% British
6. **Environment and resource use** - 99% of the Co-op’s electricity is from renewables and they’ve achieved a 46% reduction in direct GHG emissions since 2006
7. **Colleague wellbeing** - colleague engagement score (78%) is higher than a benchmark of other retailers (73%)
8. **Diversity and inclusion** - Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index ranks the Co-op 31st in its index of Britain’s top 100 employers actively encouraging gay-friendly places to work
9. **Health and safety** - setting a clear strategic direction for safety management across the Co-op, with a fall in the number of serious, reportable accidents

The Report is independently assured and is in accordance with GRI G4 (core). For the first time the Co-op also report against the Sustainable Development Goals.  
  
**Media Contact:**  
[Chris Sonne](mailto:chris.sonne@coop.co.uk)  
Press and Media Manager  
Mobile: 07770 544 721

[Read the Report](http://www.coop.co.uk/sustainabilityreport)



 

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