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Grupo Herdez Receives distinctives for Social Investment and Social Inclusion from CEMEFI

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Mexico City, Mexico, June 1, 2022 – Grupo Herdez, S.A.B. de C.V. (“Grupo Herdez” or the “Company”) (EMD: HERDEZ) the food company with the longest history in the country, received for the first time the Social Investment distinctive, awarded by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (Cemefi) to 18 corporations that, in addition to having the distinction of Socially Responsible Company (ESR), have made a public commitment to allocate at least 1% of their profits before taxes to social benefit actions.

Annually, the company invests around 2.5% of its net income in social programs. During 2021, the “United We Do More” campaign of food support to alleviate the effects of the covid-19 contingency in groups of women in prison, single mothers and families in vulnerable situations shined.

This campaign, promoted through the Herdez Foundation and in alliance with the Network of Food Banks of Mexico (Red BAMX), REINSERTA, A.C. and the IAP Foundation for the Dignification of Women benefited more than 18,500 people with the delivery of fortnightly food packages in Mexico City, State of Mexico, Xalapa, Ciudad Victoria and Morelos.

In addition to obtaining the Socially Responsible Company (ESR) distinctive for the fourteenth consecutive year, Grupo Herdez also received the Social Inclusion distinctive, awarded to only 21 ESRs for assuming, voluntarily and publicly, the commitment to adopt a Social Inclusion policy aligned to its business strategy, which integrates programs that help reduce social backwardness in those sectors of the community with which they are linked, based on the contribution made to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In 2021, Grupo Herdez’s social responsibility program, Saber Nutrir®, was positioned within the “Mexican Companies for the 2030 Agenda” Report of the Global Compact, as a good practice of SDG 2: Zero Hunger.

For 14 years, through this initiative, the company has promoted food security projects in vulnerable communities. During 2021, in alliance with the Pro Mazahua Foundation, it implemented 125 projects for the production and marketing of food in communities of the State of Mexico and Yucatan, such as family gardens, greenhouses, chicken coops, farms, safe water systems, among others. In this way, it positively affected the food development of 482 families in 23 communities.

With these actions, Grupo Herdez reaffirms its commitment and contribution to the fulfillment of the 6 SDGs within its comprehensive sustainability strategy, adopted in 2019.

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2020

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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