Sustainability in the Industry

Food Wholesale

Impacts, Risks and Opportunities

Sustainability in Food Wholesale

Hotels, convenience shops, catering companies, restaurants, delicatessens – food wholesalers supply a wide range of large consumers with a wide range of fresh products to non-food items every day.

While it used to be about large packaging at affordable prices, the sustainable transformation and changing market requirements now mean that wholesalers have to meet trends such as slow food and organic vegan to clean eating. And while the focus used to be on logistics to the customer, today the industry must ensure high product quality and compliance with increasingly strict environmental and social standards along the supply and production chains.
Regional production, animal welfare and better husbandry, energy efficiency and zero food waste concepts are just as important topics as smarter packaging and innovative logistics and mobility solutions in order to deliver emissions-saving and short-term deliveries to customers. Transformative food wholesalers ensure more natural and regional food in their product ranges and play a crucial role in making production and consumption styles sustainable.

The industry includes, for example, the wholesale trade in food and beverages, beverages and tobacco products as well as agricultural products.

Industry Materiality

Key Fields and Topics in the Industry 

 

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Climate

Climate protection

Nature

Biodiversity

Value Chain

Supply chain

Society

End-consumers

EU NACE Classification 

Industry NACE Classes

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Included NACE classes in the industry

G 46.11 Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of agricultural raw materials, live animals, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods
G 46.17 Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
G 46.2 Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals
G 46.21 Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feeds
G 46.22 Wholesale of flowers and plants
G 46.23 Wholesale of live animals
G 46.24 Wholesale of hides, skins and leather
G 46.3 Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
G 46.31 Wholesale of fruit and vegetables
G 46.32 Wholesale of meat, meat products, fish and fish products
G 46.33 Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats
G 46.34 Wholesale of beverages
G 46.35 Wholesale of tobacco products
G 46.36 Wholesale of sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
G 46.37 Wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices
G 46.38 Wholesale of other food
G 46.39 Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

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