Leading with purpose: How fighting climate change and advancing social equity drive success

Loblaw's recently released 2024 Live Life Well® Report(Open in a new tab) underscores a fundamental truth – when Canadian communities are strong, so too is our business.   

For well over a century, Loblaw has been tightly woven into the fabric of life in Canada. The 2024 Live Life Well^® Report outlines the company's key achievements of strategic importance to the country, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating food waste, building an inclusive and diverse workforce, and supporting the health of women and children in communities across Canada.  

Environmental Actions: Reducing Footprint, Improving Efficiency Loblaw has long recognized the importance of environmental stewardship and has been an industry leader in environmental actions for decades. The company is making significant strides in its goal to achieve carbon net-zero, demonstrating a commitment to influencing its entire value chain:  

• By investing over $40 million in more than 500 carbon reduction projects. 

• Achieved a 16% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions compared to the 2020 baseline.  

• Approximately 32% of Scope 3 volume (by spend) came from suppliers with science-based targets. 

Loblaw continues to tackle plastic waste head-on, not only do these efforts reduce environmental impact but they also resonate with increasingly eco-conscious consumers:  

• Achieved over 90% compliance relative to the in-scope Golden Design Rules for control brand and in-store plastic packaging, putting the company within reach of its 2025 goal to make all such packaging 100% recyclable or reusable. 

The company continues to make great strides towards its goal of sending zero food to landfill by 2030, and to helping us achieve our Feed More Families^TM commitment to provide 1 billion pounds of food to community-based food charities:  

• Diverted over 80,000 metric tonnes of potential food waste from landfill through food consistent donations and other food rescue initiatives.   

• Including donations of more than 50 million pounds of food to community-based food charities across Canada, in support of the Loblaw Feed More Families^TM program.  

Social Equity: Investing in People and Communities  Our social responsibility extends throughout our workforce and into the communities we serve. The company prioritizes building an inclusive and diverse workforce, as evidenced by its representation goals for women and visible minorities in executive and management roles.   

• Achieved 39.5% representation of women in executive roles and 46% in management roles.  

• Achieved 28% representation of visible minorities in executive roles and 34% in management roles.  

• Committed to new representation goals for 2028. 

 Loblaw recognizes that supporting the health of women and children is crucial for community well-being.   

• The Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health^TM contributed more than $12.5 million to support over 380 women’s health organizations across Canada.  

• President’s Choice Children’s Charity is also making a significant impact, reaching more than 997,000 children through direct-to-school food nutrition programs and is on track to feed one million kids by the end of 2025. 

Loblaw understands that collaboration is key to achieving its goals in fighting climate change and addressing social equity.   

• Raised and donated $212 million (including in-kind donations) to support research, charities and non-profits across Canada, including the Salvation Army, World Wildlife Fund Canada, and other disaster relief and humanitarian response efforts.  

 To learn more about these initiatives and others like them, please visit loblaw.ca/responsibility(Open in a new tab) and download a copy of the Loblaw Companies 2024 Live Life Well^® Report.