Sustainability at Champignon Hofmeister

Sustainability at
Champignon-Hofmeister –
a family-owned company

We’re making progress
A WIDE RANGE OF INITIATIVES
close to home
CERTIFIED SUSTAINABILITY
IMPROVED PACKAGING
As a traditional, family-run company, we put sustainability
at the heart of everything we do.
Our management and sustainability teams work together to
set ambitious but realistic targets within the framework of the
European Green Deal. We then put various measures in place to
meet these targets.
Consistency and measurability are key aspects of this process.
We’re now extending measures to all our sites where possible – and
we’re launching some new projects at our headquarters in Lauben.
Partnerships with regional milk
producers
Manufacturing in Germany only
CONSISTENT QUALITY
Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Code
2017 (for our Alpavit site in Lauben,
among others)
ISO 50001 (energy management)
ISO 14001 (environmental
management)
SMETA social audit
100 % of paper, card and cardboard
FSC or PEFC certified or recycled by
2023
15 % less plastic in packaging by 2026**
80+ % packaging recyclability by 2026
10 % reduction in packaging weight by
2026**
All on the basis of optimal product and
quality standards
Our ultimate aim as a corporate group is to work with our staff and
stakeholders to create a sustainable future.
Use of 100 % milk in accordance
with the QM Milch standard
Certified food safety at the
highest level
CAREFUL USE OF WATER
“Doing business in a way that ’s
sustainable, environmentally friendly
and responsible is an essential
requirement for the success of our
family-owned company – and has
been for over 100 years.”
Robert Hofmeister
(Managing Director)
HAPPY EMPLOYEES
To ensure our people enjoy
working here and stay for many
years, we offer:
• flexible hours and customised
working patterns
• fair compensation
• training and development
CLIMATE PROTECTION
100 % green electricity
58 % reduction in CO2 by 2030 in
Lauben (Scope 1 and 2)*
Pilot project: Low Carbon Farms
We use water efficiently in our
everyday work, implementing shortterm
improvement measures
We’re currently exploring further
water-saving potential and setting
mid-/long-term targets
We plan investments to use water
even more sustainably and reduce
wastewater
*reference year: 1990 | **reference year: 2020
2 | InitiativeS

dresden
A precious raw material
QUALITY MILK FROM OUR REGION
Freiberg
Some of our partnerships go
back generations.
In fact, we’ve been working with
certain producers for over 100 years.
They provide us with the unique raw
material for our speciality cheeses and
high-quality dried milk products:
milk that’s full of goodness.
würzburg
Nuremberg
NON-gM
feed
Regional:
GUARANTEED QUALITY:
85 % of the milk supplied to
our Lauben site is sourced from
within a 30 km radius.
All our dairy farmers comply
with the QM Milch standard and
are audited regularly.
Kammlach
augsburg
Moosburg /
Pfeffenhausen
Munich
SUSTAINABLE:
All farmers contracted to the
Lauben and Kammlach sites are
Unilever Sustainable Agriculture
Code 2017 certified.
WELL ADVISED:
Our Bavarian milk suppliers
receive individual advice on
improving their cows’ comfort
and welfare.
Lauben
GM-FREE FEED:
The cows are not fed
genetically modified plants.
4 | RAW MATERIAL

Excellent quality
SAFE PRODUCTS, GREAT TASTE
Few areas of food manufacturing have higher standards than
dried milk production.
That’s because it includes the production of formula milk – an important
source of nutrition for babies. We’re proud of our measurable quality level.
TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL
IFS Food, BRC Food and FSSC
22000 are three international
food safety standards:
Käsere Champignon has the
highest level of certification for
all of them.
We have our products and processes
analysed regularly by independent,
certified inspection bodies. The result?
Safe, tasty products – every time.
regular
testing
BY A TRAINED
SENSORY PANEL
6 | QUALITy

Along the entire supply chain
effective CO 2 reduction
When trying to reduce emissions, we focus
on energy use in manufacturing. But our raw
material – milk – is even more important.
That’s because the milk that’s used – and the way it’s
produced – has a huge influence on our products’
environmental footprint. And this is exactly where
we’re taking action.
AN EXCITING PILOT PROJECT
We launched the Low Carbon Farms project with
dairy farmers in southern Bavaria.
• Five representative flagship farms
• An experienced partner:
the foundation Bodensee-Stiftung
“We use a combined heat and
power system with 80 % efficiency.
Natural-gas and steam turbines
increase the share of electricity
that we generate ourselves to 70 %.
100 % of the resulting heat is used
in our processes.”
Herbert Müller​
(Head of Manufacturing and Technology)
We encourage active communication between
the participants of the Low Carbon Farms
project. We hope they’ll share the insights they’ve
gained, and more milk producers will join – all of
which will further improve climate protection.
Launched in October 2021
Set to run until 2024
CALCULATE
CLIMATE
FOOTPRINT
RECOMMEND
(FURTHER)
MEASURES
IMPLEMENT
(FURTHER)
MEASURES
2 cycles
MONITOR
RESULTS
By 2030 we aim to reduce CO₂ emissions from
manufacturing at our Lauben site by at least
58 % (in absolute terms) compared with the
1990 level.*
From milk supply to product distribution,
we’re always improving our energy efficiency
systematically, using a certified energymanagement
system. Our professional
environmental-management system helps us
to keep improving our overall environmental
performance too.
By doing this, we’ve cut our CO₂ emissions
considerably.
What’s more, the electricity we use is
100 % green – at all our sites.
The main starting-point for setting our
company-wide CO₂ reduction target
was the German Climate Change Act,
passed by the Bundestag in 2021.
* When we refer to CO₂, we always mean
CO₂ equivalent. That’s because we measure
other greenhouse gases too – as you’d expect
– and we include them in our calculations in
accordance with their impact.
Multiplier effect:
Knowledge transfer to all of Champignon-Hofmeister
corporate group’s southern Bavarian milk suppliers
our target:
58%
less co 2
**
**Scope 1 und. 2.
8 | SUPPLY CHAIN

A sustainable employer
RESPECT AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Champignon-Hofmeister has more than 1,200 employees working
at five locations. We’re a family-run business, so sustainability for us
means thinking in terms of generations and valuing our people.
JOB PREPARATION:
7 apprenticeship tracks and
a training/study programme
CPD:
financial support for employees
to pursue further training
SUSTAINABLE RECRUITMENT:
vacancies filled internally,
including management
posts; apprentices hired
as employees
A MORE SECURE FUTURE:
company pension
FAIR PAY:
equal pay for men
and women
FOCUS ON WELLBEING:
corporate health management
policy and sports activities
FREEDOM TO CHOOSE:
flexible hours – even in
manufacturing – plus a variety
of working patterns
Training
company
of the year 2021
in the german
milk industry
REGULAR INSPECTIONS:
in accordance with international
social auditing standards
Join us, and
let ’s grow together!
“Back in 2018 we took our
first step towards a paperfree
office by introducing
digital accounting. Now
we’re extending this idea to
all company divisions.
As paper production is so
resource-intensive, this
measure alone has saved
1.5 million litres of water
so far. And the great thing
about the project is that
anyone can get involved!”
Dagmar Baldus
(HR Manager)
10 | EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

Käserei Champignon
Hofmeister GmbH & Co. KG
Kemptener Straße 17 – 24
87493 Lauben / Allgäu
Germany
Tel.: (08374) 92-0
Fax (08374) 92-169
info@champignon.de
www.champignon.de
For the purpose of readability, we may sometimes use the
masculine form of words. We’d like to make it clear that all people
are equally welcome at our family-owned business,
Champignon-Hofmeister.