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Mexico City, June 17, 2024 – Within the framework of World Sustainable Gastronomy Day, Grupo Herdez® presented the achievements of its Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture program that impacts around 1,800 hectares of crops throughout the country.

In 2023, the company acquired more than 146 thousand tons of agricultural and beekeeping raw materials, of which 50% correspond to suppliers participating in this program. This considers the main raw materials with which it produces sauces, tomato puree, canned vegetables, chili peppers and canned nopales, both for the domestic market and for export to the United States.

Through the Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture program, the production practices of agricultural suppliers are guided, trained, supervised and monitored to not only guarantee the quality of the products, but also ensure the lowest environmental impact of food production.

In 2023, faced with low water availability for farmers in the Pacific area, such as Sonora and Sinaloa, where tomatoes for Del Fuerte® are grown, suppliers implemented the drip irrigation technique to ensure annual production, reducing up to 60% water use.

This method has proven to be the most efficient water consumption method, especially in widely spaced crops; since, by offering a slow distribution of the vital liquid, its consumption is lower and maximizes the use by the crops.

The Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture program of Grupo Herdez® began in 2008, as a method of quality control of raw materials, to comply with regulatory requirements for export products. In its 16 years of operation, it has evolved to become a key action of Grupo Herdez’s sustainability strategy to promote a sustainable food industry.

The program is governed by a manual of good agricultural practices, which considers sustainability criteria such as the preservation of biodiversity, integrated crop management, reduction in the use of agrochemicals, among others that directly contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 12 of Production and Responsible Consumption.

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2020

  • 2020: In collaboration with La Costeña® and Sanfer®, we delivered 35,000 basic food baskets to benefit more than 175,000 Mexicans affected by the COVID-19 health contingency.

    We launched the first edition of Semillero Nutrisa®, a program to support Mexican women entrepreneurs to participate in a training and business development program.

  • 2021: We became the first consumer company in Latin America to partner with Google, a global technology giant, to accelerate our digital transformation. 

    We signed an agreement with the American company General Mills® to distribute their products in Mexico, with which we entered the categories of cereal bars and prepared dessert flours.


    We celebrated the 80th anniversary of Doña María® mole with the inauguration of Casa Doña María Pons, headquarters of Fundación Herdez® in San Luis Potosí.

    We were placed in the report “Mexican Companies for the 2030 Agenda in the Decade of Action” of the Global Compact, for the actions of the Saber Nutrir® program as a reference practice to achieve Zero Hunger, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.

  • 2022: We acquired Interdeli and Deli, Dips & Snacks, expanding our capabilities to new categories such as hummus, cheeses, and dips, integrating brands such as Libanius, Flaveur, Liguria, and Señor Cactus into our portfolio.

    For the first time in our history, we brought the best of Mexican cuisine to the United Kingdom with the Herdez® brand, through a joint alliance with McCormick & Company, Inc.

    We issued the first sustainability-linked bond in the food industry in Mexico, committing to reduce our water consumption per ton produced by 2030.

    We signed the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPS), reaffirming our commitment to gender equality.

    We joined the UN’s CFO Coalition for the SDGs, which drives the transformation of corporate finance to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda.

    We joined the Pacto por la Comida of the BAMX Network, an initiative that promotes more sustainable food production and consumption systems, with the goal of reducing Food Loss and Waste in the industry.

  • 2023: We consolidated the integration of Chilim Balam® into the Impulse segment portfolio, with which we positioned ourselves in the candy and snack category in the retail model.

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