Carrefour - 2017 Registration Document

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Protecting biodiversity 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT | CARREFOUR 2. 52 Carrefour’s performance Carrefour aims to develop and promote sales of Carrefour Quality Lines and organic produce. In 2017, sales of these product lines increased by 9.6% year on year. Carrefour Quality Lines products 2017 2016 Change Number of Carrefour Quality Lines (number of partnerships) 464 464 0.0% Total sales (incl. VAT) of Carrefour Quality Lines products (in millions of euros) 838.2 922.7 -9.2% Organic products 2017 2016 Change Number of certified organic food products 2,566 2,390 +7.4% Sales (incl. VAT) of organic food products – Carrefour brands and national brands (in millions of euros) 1,334.0 1,041.5 +28.1% Total sales (incl. VAT) of organic products – Carrefour brands and national brands (in millions of euros) 1,386.6 1,107.4 +25.2% Fair trade products 2017 2016 Change Number of certified fair trade products 74 99 -25.3% Sales (incl. VAT) of fair trade products – Carrefour brands and national brands (in millions of euros) 152.5 149.0 +2.3% Scope: Like-for-like BUs (100% of 2017 consolidated sales excl. VAT). Highlights With its Marché Interdit initiative, Carrefour France supports growers in the movement to offer traditional fruit and vegetables grown from farmers’ seeds. So far, there are some 40 Carrefour stores selling these traditional fruit and vegetable varieties. Carrefour France wishes to develop this line on a long-term basis, and accordingly has signed a partnership with two grower groups. To challenge current legislation that bans the sale of these traditional varieties, Carrefour encourages customers to sign a petition entitled “Change the law that narrows biodiversity and our food choices!” Consistent with this initiative, the Carrefour Foundation has set up a farmers’ seed centre: La Maison des Graines des Paysans (detailed in Section 2.4.6). Carrefour continued with its pilot crop launch schedule, begun several years ago with the aim of developing agroecology openings in various lines. The first melons grown without synthetic pesticides in the planting stage appeared on the shelves in 2017. Other pilot schemes in progress on produce such as potatoes and apples should bring results in 2018. Carrefour has involved all suppliers of its Reflets de France strawberries in a campaign to ensure that 100% of these products sold in 2018 come from farms complying with agroecology principles. Successful results from the first few years of experimentation have encouraged Carrefour to further expand this approach across its Carrefour Quality Lines. With this in mind, Carrefour France held its first Agroecology Solutions Forum in 2017. At this event, more than 150 producers met with providers of agroecology solutions and took part in joint working groups. They were also informed on Carrefour France’s agroecology action plan and received an Agroecology Solutions Handbook detailing the solutions already in operation with pilot suppliers. This approach is now being rolled out in other countries, such as Belgium, where two cooperatives are growing the first zero-residue pears. Growers’ efforts to use useful insects and organic solutions instead of pesticides have proved successful, and the two cooperatives are now working to extend the zero-residue method to two apple varieties. In 2018, Carrefour will continue to support the agricultural industry’s transformation of its production model. Under the organic farming development contract launched with the WWF ® in early 2018, Carrefour has committed to a three- to five-year undertaking on purchase volumes and price conditions for producers converting to organic farming. The products in question will be identified in Carrefour stores with specific labelling indicating the WWF ® connection.