Responsibility Report 2013-2014
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Nurturing a culture of inclusion Our RESPONSIBILITIES report 2013 - 2014 Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration
Our EARTH Zero waste Smarter energy use Responsible water use
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our vision is to be the Caring. Partners. Our partners care about each other best customer-brand We care deeply about our We attract, develop and engage great people, who Nurturing a culture of inclusion dairy company in the customers, our communities and bring to life a culture of caring, partnership and world. We’ll achieve this each other. customer commitment. by creating sustainable Our FOOD value for our customers Partnership. Customers. Keeping our customer commitments as a modern, global We build meaningful We create sustainable value for our customers as a Global Food Safety Initiative partner delivering relationships based on collaboration, modern, global partner delivering exceptional quality, Industry food-safety collaboration
OUR VISION exceptional quality, commitment and trust. service, innovation and insight. service, innovation OUR VALUES and insight – all while Ownership. Capability. Our EARTH enriching lives around We own our future, and We develop modern capabilities in everything we do to Zero waste the globe. we’re each responsible for our actions remain essential to our customers’ success. Smarter energy use and performance every day. Responsible water use Risk. We identify, assess and manage our enterprisewide risk to ensure a sustainable future for ourselves, our Our COMMUNITIES customers and our communities. Where we focus our contributions Matching grants Workplace campaigns OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OUR STRATEGIC Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments CLICK IMAGE TO PLAY Global Food Safety Initiative a message from Mike Haddad Industry food-safety collaboration
President and CEO, Schreiber Foods Our EARTH Zero waste
WELCOME Smarter energy use Responsible water use
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other We’re employee owned L.D. Schreiber agreed to sell 49 percent of the company to 13 Nurturing a culture of inclusion We’re proud of our ownership stake in Schreiber through the employees, who were responsible for the growing success of the company and wanted a stake in the business. Today, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). We share something Our FOOD special, and that’s our common bond as owners of the company. more than 50 years later, the company is owned by more than Keeping our customer commitments 5,300 partners. We call ourselves “partners” rather than employees because we Global Food Safety Initiative own our company. Industry food-safety collaboration Every day, we come to work knowing the choices we make, Our ownership history the ideas we initiate and the problems we solve will make a Founded in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1945, the L.D. Schreiber difference. This gives us a sense of pride in everything we do Our EARTH Cheese Company was owned solely by L.D. Schreiber, a because we are striving to be the best customer-brand dairy Zero waste OUR COMPANY “butter and egg” businessman from Chicago. On Oct. 1, company in the world. In the end, we share in the direct benefit Smarter energy use 1962, a monumental event in Schreiber’s history took place as of our hard work because we’re the owners of the company. Responsible water use
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other We want our customers to be able to count on Nurturing a culture of inclusion us today, tomorrow and for generations to come. our partners, Through great care and diligence, we’ve implemented Our FOOD and maintained rigid financial controls – including Keeping our customer commitments executive- and board-level approvals, checks and Global Food Safety Initiative
STRONG our , balances, an annual external financial audit and a food Industry food-safety collaboration robust corporate governance structure – all to ensure we remain a financially viable company. Maintaining these financial controls is a given; but our corporate our earth and Our EARTH responsibility goes well beyond financial controls. To Zero waste
SUSTAINABLE & SUSTAINABLE ensure we remain a sustainable company for decades Smarter energy use to come, we’re focused on four key areas – our communities. Responsible water use
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NEXT: Our Partners 4 Responsibility Report 2013-2014
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Our partners have always been and Nurturing a culture of inclusion will always be a top priority for us. It’s very important that we sharpen Our FOOD their skills, develop their talent, help Keeping our customer commitments them live a healthy lifestyle and work Global Food Safety Initiative safely. It’s the right thing to do for Industry food-safety collaboration our partners, and it also helps us as a company. We become a more Our EARTH engaged and effective organization, Zero waste
OUR PARTNERS which impacts our growth potential Smarter energy use and creates value for our customers. Responsible water use
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We’re investing in our partners Welcome
We offer dozens of courses to help train and decision making and effective leadership Our COMPANY develop our partners. One of those courses behaviors. And through the 7 Habits is Partner Essentials. It’s a series of leadership of Highly Successful People workshop, Our PARTNERS classes that help partners get familiar with hundreds of partners have sharpened their We’re investing in our partners our history, our culture and learn new skills personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Developing the next generation of leaders that can help them grow, both personally We care about our partners’ health and professionally. More than 1,250 partners We also offer a new suite of extensive, Safety is No. 1 around the world are Partner Essentials interactive learning courses lined up to Our partners care about each other grads, and they’re already putting their help partners with job-specific training. For Nurturing a culture of inclusion newly learned skills to work. example, we’ve defined all the elements a partner in Finance or Sales needs to be Other offerings include Accelerating successful in their role. These courses help Our FOOD Successful Transitions – a course to help partners clearly see what’s most important so Keeping our customer commitments partners transition to a new job role. About they can build their individual development Global Food Safety Initiative 85 percent of all partners transitioning to plans to gain the skills they need to grow and Industry food-safety collaboration a new role completed this course to help make a positive impact on the business. make their job transition go as smoothly as Our EARTH possible. Another course, called Leading To take it a step further, all of our Zero waste Edge, has helped hundreds of leaders get salaried partners build their own individual Smarter energy use a better understanding of how they can development plans to best fit their Responsible water use support their direct reports through talent specific goals. selection, performance management, Our COMMUNITIES Where we focus our contributions Matching grants Workplace campaigns Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Developing the next generation of leaders Welcome
For Schreiber to expand on our past success, annually to help them grow and lead us to a Our COMPANY we need strong leaders at every level who successful future. can guide the company forward. Succession Our PARTNERS planning is important on all levels within the The bottom line? We’re investing in our We’re investing in our partners organization – not just at the executive level. partners because we care about them. Their Developing the next generation of leaders personal growth translates into success for We care about our partners’ health How do we get our next generation of Schreiber and our customers. Safety is No. 1 leaders ready? A key part of succession Our partners care about each other planning is competency models. These help Nurturing a culture of inclusion us know what areas we need to focus on for “Competency models have been paramount our partners’ development. For example, to our success as we continue the journey what skills does a Sales partner need to be Our FOOD successful in that role? What skills, training Keeping our customer commitments toward being customer-obsessed. and activities are needed to close any gaps “Succession planning is our Global Food Safety Initiative Understanding what is needed to deliver and help that individual be more successful? critical next step. Our talent Industry food-safety collaboration on expectations internally and externally That’s what the competency models help tell is our differentiator. If we us, and we’ve developed them for every area has been critical in our fast-paced global Our EARTH within the company, which has already led to can’t identify what’s needed Zero waste marketplace. With expectations defined and positive results. in the future for our partners Smarter energy use competencies calibrated, we have been able and the gaps we currently Responsible water use to execute, and results have proven out as Schreiber conducts yearly calibration have and start building sessions as a way for leaders to share we have built amazing teams. By tying that to feedback on the talent in the company, them and developing them, Our COMMUNITIES succession planning and career development, create growth opportunities and develop we’re going to lose that Where we focus our contributions our future is bright for both Schreiber and the next generation of leaders. One of our competitive advantage.” Matching grants our customers.” goals for 2015 is for partners to complete 20 Workplace campaigns > Tony, Schreiber partner hours of organized, classroom-type learning Feeding America > Mark, Schreiber partner Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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We care about our partners’ health Welcome
We offer many different wellness benefits integration of voluntary health assessment Our COMPANY to help our partners live longer, healthier data and personalized health goals has lives. These range from tobacco cessation helped countless individuals reach health Our PARTNERS programs and nutritional counseling success. This resource enables our partners We’re investing in our partners to lunch-and-learn health sessions and and spouses to be their best selves in all Developing the next generation of leaders wellness challenges. We’ve also adopted aspects of health. We care about our partners’ health an interactive, online wellness tool. The Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Nurturing a culture of inclusion
Our FOOD “I’ve been participating in the interactive, online wellness Keeping our customer commitments program from day one. It really keeps me moving and Global Food Safety Initiative motivated. I get 10,000 plus steps in each day. My husband and Industry food-safety collaboration I were both in lower tiers with our health assessment. I had to really push my husband, but we both worked out and did other Our EARTH Zero waste healthy activities to earn the points we needed to get back the Smarter energy use money we were losing from being in a lower health tier. We Responsible water use actually used that money to go on a trip for our 30th wedding anniversary. Throughout the past 1.5 years, I’ve lost 45 pounds Our COMMUNITIES and feel great. I truly believe the wellness program has helped Where we focus our contributions Matching grants me lose this weight, along with becoming healthier by going Workplace campaigns through the courses and campaigns that are offered. “ Feeding America
> Nancy, Schreiber partner Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Safety is No. 1 Welcome
Keeping everyone safe in our facilities floor conducting Partner Safety training to ensure they stay sharp and Our COMPANY is a top priority – that includes our Observations – more than 2,000 of know exactly what to do. Our PARTNERS partners, visitors and everybody in our them each quarter. We’re investing in our partners communities. It’s not enough to just But keeping our communities safe Developing the next generation of leaders meet safety and regulatory standards We’re constantly modernizing our requires teamwork. That’s why our and OSHA requirements. Our goal is facilities so we can work smarter and emergency response teams work We care about our partners’ health zero injuries. We want to ensure our safer. Our safety processes, audits and directly with the fire department, Safety is No. 1 partners go home safely every day records are online and automated. emergency medical technicians and a Our partners care about each other “We take a very proactive to enjoy life with their families The paperless system is streamlined HAZMAT response team in Nurturing a culture of inclusion and friends. and ensures information is always their communities. approach to safety.We’re up to date and accurate. We’ve also always looking for better Our FOOD Our safety record is among the best in deployed hundreds of robots and It’s always great to have visitors, and Keeping our customer commitments ways to be safe. It’s a the dairy industry. We’re proud to have automated machines throughout our we want to make sure their visit is Global Food Safety Initiative a lost-time injury rate that’s a third of global production and distribution enjoyable and safe. We brief everyone critical part of our training.” Industry food-safety collaboration the industry average. Our medical- network to help our partners avoid who steps into our facilities on safety > Jeff, Schreiber partner treatment injury rate is one-fifteenth of heavy lifting and repetitive work. – what they need to be aware of, the industry average. precautions, what to do if there is Our EARTH Our communities and guests an emergency and more. Frequent Zero waste Our partners Not only are we focused on keeping guests, like contractors who stay with Smarter energy use We have developed rigid and in-depth our partners safe, but we also want to us for an extended period of time, are Responsible water use partner-safety training programs over keep our guests and the citizens in our also required to take a safety course. many decades, and our training never communities safe. We strive to avoid stops. We retrain partners every step all potential hazards in our facilities Our COMMUNITIES of the way – when the equipment, the and make sure we’re prepared in the Where we focus our contributions process or even the job itself changes. unlikely event of an emergency. Every Matching grants When the training is complete, we year in every plant, our emergency Workplace campaigns check to make sure partners are response teams train and perform Feeding America using what they learned with safety multiple mock drills and go through 24 Schreiber Charity Golf Classic audits. Our leaders are on the plant hours of HAZMAT (hazardous material)
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Our partners care about each other Welcome
We feel it’s important to support our partners when they rally together to help one of their Our COMPANY fellow partners in a time of need. We do that through a program called Partners Helping Our PARTNERS Partners (PHP). Here’s how it works. When a partner is going through a difficult time, other We’re investing in our partners partners want to help however they can. One thing they’ll do is organize fundraisers, and Developing the next generation of leaders Schreiber matches partner donations. We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Nurturing a culture of inclusion
Our FOOD PHP Funds Raised Schreiber Match Total Raised Keeping our customer commitments Global Food Safety Initiative 2014 $77,399 $77,399 $154,798 Industry food-safety collaboration 2013 $73,642 $73,642 $147,281 “At the Fairview plant in Carthage, Missouri, 2012 $72,860 $72,860 $145,723 Our EARTH we have a really energetic core group of 2011 $72,829 $72,829 $145,389 Zero waste partners who promote the caring spirit and Smarter energy use 2010 $99,440 $103,237 $202,677 encourage everyone to chip in and support Responsible water use each other when they need help. The group 2009 $60,254 $62,076 $123,330 organizes various types of fundraising Our COMMUNITIES Where we focus our contributions events, like meals, prized drawings, silent Matching grants auctions and fun events like chili cook-offs.” Workplace campaigns
> Audri, Schreiber partner Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Nurturing a culture of inclusion Welcome
Embracing differences – whether The event was open to partners offers a Championing Diversity Our COMPANY it’s different backgrounds, degrees, and community members and course. Through this course, partners experiences, nationalities or ways of featured subject-matter experts from challenge unproductive beliefs and Our PARTNERS thinking – is tremendously important several leading-edge companies who stereotypes, learn about the We’re investing in our partners to Schreiber. Diversity and inclusion shared their insights and provided dynamics of a changing workforce Developing the next generation of leaders is not just another training course additional inspiration. and understand the value that We care about our partners’ health partners go through; it’s a way of diversity brings for our suppliers Safety is No. 1 thinking and being. While fostering Network of Women Business and customers. Our partners care about each other an inclusive environment is part of our Leaders (NOWBL) Nurturing a culture of inclusion social responsibility, it also helps us NOWBL is an all-inclusive group of Diversity vendor partnership better serve our customers and their partners working to not only develop Schreiber embraces women- and diverse needs. and support women leaders, but minority-owned businesses within Our FOOD to also create gender-balanced our supply chain. The supplier Keeping our customer commitments Global Inclusion team leadership teams. NOWBL provides diversity program has been a Global Food Safety Initiative Our Global Inclusion team is a group a forum for participants – both company focus for the past 17 years. Industry food-safety collaboration “One of the things I really of partners committed to fostering male and female – to exchange The program aims to include diverse a welcoming and comfortable ideas, celebrate personal and career suppliers in requests for proposal Our EARTH love about being on the workplace for everybody. Our accomplishments, create peer when considering business- Zero waste Global Inclusion team is that goal is to promote an environment mentoring opportunities and spending opportunities. Smarter energy use we have a real opportunity where every partner can grow much more. Responsible water use to drive business results personally and professionally, appreciate and celebrate differences Championing diversity by focusing on ways to and acknowledge and respect To attract, develop and engage Our COMMUNITIES cultivate and nurture our contributions. In 2014, partners great people, we need to be able to Where we focus our contributions already incredible culture displayed their desire to learn from respect and appreciate people from Matching grants the best of the best by hosting a all over the world, regardless of their of inclusion.” Workplace campaigns discussion panel titled “Modern and age, race, religious beliefs, sexual Feeding America Global: Nurturing our Culture of orientation, nationality and other > Michael, Schreiber partner Schreiber Charity Golf Classic Inclusion” in Green Bay, Wisconsin. differences. That’s why Schreiber
NEXT: Our Food 11 Responsibility Report 2013-2014
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other We strive to be a leader in food safety Nurturing a culture of inclusion and quality – not just for our customers, but for everyone who enjoys dairy Our FOOD products. Our manufacturing plants Keeping our customer commitments adhere to a robust food-safety process, Global Food Safety Initiative and we’ve enlisted our suppliers to Industry food-safety collaboration advance and standardize their food- OUR FOOD safety and quality programs. But that’s Our EARTH not enough for us. We’ve joined our Zero waste peers and competitors to advance best Smarter energy use practices throughout the dairy industry. Responsible water use
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Keeping our customer commitments Welcome
Schreiber is deeply committed to problem solving circles and Visual Work Our COMPANY manufacturing and distributing safe, Instructions (VWI), to identify and resolve wholesome, quality products. We use state- challenges and improve performance. Our PARTNERS of-the-art quality systems and processes We’re investing in our partners to make product that consistently meets The “Big 5” Developing the next generation of leaders customer and regulatory specifications. The Big 5 is the cornerstone of our We care about our partners’ health food safety program. It focuses on five Safety is No. 1 Here are some ways we make it happen: principles that guide sustainable food- Our partners care about each other safety performance: traffic patterns, good Nurturing a culture of inclusion • We have a robust Product Lifecycle manufacturing practices, infrastructure, Management (PLM) system to onboard equipment design and sanitation. and manage products and packaging Our FOOD in a systematic, comprehensive and What does that mean? Keeping our customer commitments efficient manner. Global Food Safety Initiative Let’s look at sanitation as an example. Industry food-safety collaboration • We use Lean Six Sigma principles to We want to ensure our facilities and our ensure work is completed efficiently with equipment are cleaned properly each and Our EARTH little waste. every time. We worked with industry experts Zero waste to create a best-in-class Sanitation Essentials Smarter energy use • We monitor and track metrics and key training program in our plants. Our dairy performance indicators (KPIs) to measure sanitation professionals are certified experts Responsible water use ourselves and highlight areas of strength on basic cleaning steps, clean-out-of-place and opportunities. We set targets for (COP), clean-in-place (CIP), validation, Our COMMUNITIES product incidents, complaint rates, first- chemistry of sanitizers and more. We want Where we focus our contributions pass quality, audit scores and much more. to be a leader in sanitation practices, and we Matching grants won’t settle for less. Workplace campaigns • We arm cross-functional teams with Feeding America problem-solving tools, including Failure Schreiber Charity Golf Classic Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA),
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Our COMPANY 7-step cleaning process Suppliers We use a thorough 7-step cleaning and We can’t make high-quality products without Our PARTNERS sanitation process to ensure food safety on high-quality ingredients. That’s why we We’re investing in our partners our production lines. The first step is dry hold our suppliers to a robust approval and Developing the next generation of leaders cleaning, similar to sweeping the crumbs auditing program – looking at quality and We care about our partners’ health off the counter in your kitchen. Next, we how the products are procured and handled. Safety is No. 1 pre-rinse and then it’s time for soap and The guidelines we give our suppliers state Our partners care about each other scrubbing. When we’re done with these that any milk used in our products must Nurturing a culture of inclusion steps, we rinse and inspect to make sure we come from farms that take part in a verifiable did a thorough cleaning job. During cleaning, animal care program, like the National we likely took apart some equipment; so Dairy FARM (Farmers Assuring Responsible Our FOOD after cleaning, we put the equipment back Management) program. Keeping our customer commitments together and then do a pre-operational Global Food Safety Initiative inspection. The final step is ensuring there Making products everyone can enjoy is Industry food-safety collaboration are no microbes left, so we sanitize. a team effort. By collaborating with our suppliers on food safety and animal care, Our EARTH This is just an overview of the extensive we’ve established an exchange of best Zero waste systems, processes and company principles practices that is mutually beneficial. We Smarter energy use that fulfill our commitment to food safety. exchange ideas early and often to continue to move food safety forward. Responsible water use
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Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration Welcome
We’re committed to continuous Schreiber takes a lead role working with Here are a few more examples of our efforts: Our COMPANY improvement in food safety and quality and other companies in the dairy industry to take part in the Global Food Safety Initiative advance food safety through the Innovation • Consolidating industry-developed Our PARTNERS (GFSI). All of our food manufacturing Center for U.S. Dairy. We helped create food-safety best practices with the We’re investing in our partners facilities have achieved food-safety educational food-safety training courses for Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Developing the next generation of leaders certification from globally recognized dairy manufacturers and processors. Since regulatory agencies and food and dairy We care about our partners’ health organizations – Safe Quality Food (SQF) the program started in 2010, more than association experts. This helps reach out Safety is No. 1 level 3, Foundation for Food Safety 1,750 students have taken part. to even more companies in the industry. Our partners care about each other Certification (FSSC) 22000 or British Retail Nurturing a culture of inclusion Consortium (BRC). • Supporting global pathogen research. Our experts are joining other scientists, academics and suppliers to evaluate Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments existing pathogen research and determine future needs. Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration • Serving on the Animal Care Committee of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Our EARTH Together we’re moving the industry Zero waste forward on best practices for animal Smarter energy use care and ensuring dairy farms across Responsible water use the country are participating in the strongest animal care programs possible. Mandatory participation, scientifically Our COMMUNITIES defendable best practices, and audits Where we focus our contributions will be the foundation of the program. Matching grants Our efforts will result in a strong animal Workplace campaigns care policy and accountability for the Feeding America dairy industry. Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Welcome
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Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other We want to make sure we’re doing our part to promote a healthy “We believe in Nurturing a culture of inclusion environment in our communities. We’re constantly searching for building strong, secure innovative, eco-friendly food packaging ideas. We’re recycling and partnerships with our Our FOOD creating energy from byproducts. We’re using less energy and water. Keeping our customer commitments suppliers. Our suppliers We’re constantly reexamining our supply chain to make it more efficient, Global Food Safety Initiative reduce the number of trucks on the road and use less fuel. are more than vendors; Industry food-safety collaboration they’re vital partners who OUR EARTH We’ve teamed up with experts, suppliers and customers to share ideas play a significant role Our EARTH and put the best ones to work. Together, we’re making a larger impact. in the lifecycle of our Zero waste Ultimately, we’re continuously working to have a positive impact on our Smarter energy use environment – for ourselves, our communities and our world. products.” Responsible water use > Janet, Schreiber partner
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Zero waste Welcome
Zero waste going to the landfill or package that goes through the line is Our COMPANY That’s our goal. It means repurposing and filled properly. recycling as much as we can and keeping Our PARTNERS residual waste to a minimum. Packaging includes the boxes used to ship We’re investing in our partners our products. It’s important that we protect Developing the next generation of leaders How do we do it? We go through the our products and the environment at the We care about our partners’ health trash and separate recyclables and non- same time, so we’re always looking for better Safety is No. 1 recyclables. Then, we look for ways to ways to use materials. Our partners care about each other reduce, reuse or recycle the waste. Some Nurturing a culture of inclusion solutions have a bigger impact on the • We’re now using a stand-up pouch environment than others, so we use a for shredded cheese. This smaller bag resource-renewable hierarchy to guide us. packs a big punch. It uses less flexible Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments packaging than the traditional bag – We’re working to find ways to reduce, reuse 260,000 less pounds in 2014. A more Global Food Safety Initiative or recycle all waste at our facilities. From compact design means we can ship more Industry food-safety collaboration digesters that convert waste into energy efficiently – 9,000 more pounds on each to recycling bins in our break rooms and truck. And this smart design makes it Our EARTH everything we can think of in between, we’re easier for our customers to put product Zero waste making strides toward this goal every day. on the shelves. With more customers Smarter energy use lining up for this innovative design – we Responsible water use Reduce expect more savings with a larger impact. We’re always looking for innovative, eco- friendly packaging ideas. We want to design • Every inch counts when using corrugated- Our COMMUNITIES packaging with sustainability in mind for cardboard boxes. We revamped the Where we focus our contributions many reasons – we’re using less material to design, reducing the cutout of 72 cases Matching grants make it, less trash will be sent to landfills and by half an inch. The result – 2 percent Workplace campaigns it’s the right thing to do. We want to reduce savings in corrugate. Feeding America waste in our facilities so that every bag, cup Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Reuse Recycle Our CORE STATEMENTS We’ve found an innovative and sustainable There are many different items that can solution for wastewater in Richland Center, be recycled. Some things are obvious, like Welcome Wisconsin, where we have two yogurt paper or aluminum cans. But if you do a producing plants. The Richland Center little research, you’ll find there’s an outlet for Our COMPANY Renewable Energy (RCRE) wastewater almost anything. We’re recycling everything Our PARTNERS treatment facility generates renewable energy from corrugated cardboard to flexible film to We’re investing in our partners for the community. It runs high-strength pallets and plastic cups. Developing the next generation of leaders wastewater through digesters and produces To the right are just some of our numbers from fiscal year 2014 (FIG. A) We care about our partners’ health biogas that is used to generate electricity – up Safety is No. 1 to 1.7 megawatts per year. Since starting up Working together in spring 2013, RCRE has generated nearly Teamwork is creating big results in our zero- Our partners care about each other 12 million kilowatt-hours of green power, waste efforts. In 2014, we put our heads Nurturing a culture of inclusion displacing an equivalent amount of fossil fuel- together with suppliers and an industry leader based power. In 2013, RCRE was awarded the to look at waste streams and the best ways Our FOOD “Renewable Energy Customer-Generator of to reduce, reuse and recycle. We researched Keeping our customer commitments the Year” award by RENEW Wisconsin, a non- the best ways to keep waste out of landfills Global Food Safety Initiative profit organization promoting clean energy and created the Zero Waste Sustainability Industry food-safety collaboration strategies for powering Wisconsin’s economy. Report. It covers everything from food to dozens of kinds of plastic and packaging materials. Our EARTH Zero waste Smarter energy use Responsible water use “The best way to achieve sustainability is by working together with our suppliers. Our supply chain Our COMMUNITIES Where we focus our contributions is very complex and by working Matching grants with our suppliers we can find Workplace campaigns innovative solutions.” Feeding America
> Janet, Schreiber partner Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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CONTENTS Resource Renewal Hierarchy RESOURCE-RENEWABLE HIERARCHY AND DEFINITIONS Our CORE STATEMENTS Source Reduction and Reuse: Reducing waste at its source Source Reduction & Reuse 1 and preventing it before it’s ever created; Reusing items rather Welcome most preferred than disposing of them. Our COMPANY Feed Hungry People Feeding People: Donating fresh, wholesome food to those in 2 Recycling need (e.g. food banks, soup kitchens and shelters). Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Feed Animals Feeding Animals: Feeding safe food scraps to animals. Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Industrial Use Recycling: The collection of used, reused or unused items Safety is No. 1 Energy that would otherwise be considered waste; sorting and 3 Recovery Our partners care about each other processing the recyclable products into raw materials; and Nurturing a culture of inclusion Composting remanufacturing the recycled raw materials into new products.
Incineration Energy Recovery: The conversion of non-recyclable waste Our FOOD or Landfill materials into useable heat, electricity or fuel through a variety Keeping our customer commitments 4 of processes, including combustion, gasification, pyrolization Global Food Safety Initiative least preferred Food Waste/Organic Waste and landfill gas (LFG) recovery. Industry food-safety collaboration Other Waste Industrial Uses: Rendering fats, oils, and grease and turning them into products or biofuel. Using food scraps to create Our EARTH renewable energy and a valuable soil amendment. Zero waste Smarter energy use Composting: Turning food waste and non-food waste Responsible water use (biodegradables and organic materials) into a valuable soil amendment. Our COMMUNITIES Incineration or Landfill: Landfill is a least preferred option, Where we focus our contributions since it does not utilize resources in waste. In addition, Matching grants landfilled waste can cause contamination of soil and Workplace campaigns groundwater. Incineration without energy recovery is also Feeding America least preferred, as it results in the loss of resources or energy content that could otherwise be harvested. Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Smarter energy use Welcome
There’s a lot of equipment that goes into Fuel reduction Our COMPANY running a manufacturing plant. Lights, lines, Our products sometimes have to travel long forklifts, refrigerators – they all need energy distances to reach our customers, but we’re Our PARTNERS to run. We’re finding ways to do the same doing our part to reduce freight miles and We’re investing in our partners things using less energy. emissions. Ultimately, we’re shipping things Developing the next generation of leaders more efficiently. We care about our partners’ health Here are some ways we’re keeping energy Safety is No. 1 reduction top of mind. Schreiber has plants and distribution Our partners care about each other centers strategically located. Our goal is to Nurturing a culture of inclusion • Lights are a must. But using a lot of find the shortest distance from point A to energy is not. That’s why we are shifting point B, with the fewest number of stops to modern lighting technology, like LED and transfers. Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments lights, fluorescents, ceramic metal halide and motion sensors. With recent upgrade When we put a truck on the road, we want it Global Food Safety Initiative projects, it’s made a significant impact at to be a full truckload. We want to make the Industry food-safety collaboration two of our plants. most of our resources, and that means we’re optimizing our shipments every day. Our EARTH LIGHTING SAVINGS • New construction projects offer new Here’s just one example: Zero waste opportunities to minimize energy usage. Smarter energy use When we designed a new distribution We worked with a customer that was using Responsible water use LOGAN PLANT 2.6 kWh annually center in Richland Center, Wisconsin, we the same shipping route as us between = enough energy to power nearly looked at the different design options Arizona and Wisconsin. We basically started and the lifecycle impact of each. We carpooling - shipping our product and our Our COMMUNITIES 300 HOMES made longer-term energy goals a priority customer’s product in the same truck over Where we focus our contributions - opting for high-efficiency lighting and 1,800 miles, eight times a week. Matching grants GREEN BAY PLANT 1.1 kWh annually refrigeration systems. Workplace campaigns = enough energy to power Fewer miles. Fuller trucks. It just Feeding America makes sense. Schreiber Charity Golf Classic 120 HOMES
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Responsible water use Welcome
Working together Water reduction is very important to us, and Our COMPANY We’re doing our best to reduce fuel and we’re reexamining our goals. Yogurt has emissions, and we’re working together with become a bigger piece of our business, and Our PARTNERS others to do even more. making yogurt requires a lot of water. We’re We’re investing in our partners working harder than ever to find responsible Developing the next generation of leaders In 2013, we sponsored a transportation ways to use this valuable resource. We care about our partners’ health working group – collaborating with suppliers Safety is No. 1 “We believe integrating sustainability and carriers to share best practices. We use water to make our products and Our partners care about each other throughout the supplier network requires a Together we identified the top ways to make clean our production lines. All that water can Nurturing a culture of inclusion collaborative approach. Working groups are transportation more efficient, ranging from really add up. That’s why we only use the agile teams of suppliers and industry leaders route optimization to fuel usage and driver water we need. But it doesn’t just end there. behavior to fleet utilization. Read more in We want to do our part to responsibly take Our FOOD who face challenges to reduce costs and Keeping our customer commitments our Transportation Sustainability report. care of the wastewater we create. impacts, while sharing best practices. Members Global Food Safety Initiative of a working group look for innovative solutions A greener alternative Partners at our Merlin G. Bush plant in Industry food-safety collaboration with measurable results within a specific period Did you know you can use a byproduct of Green Bay, Wisconsin, installed a closed- of time.” sugar cane for fuel? It’s technology we’re looped recirculating-type system to cool air compressors at the plant. Instead of Our EARTH putting to use at our Baramati, India, plant. Zero waste > Colleen, Schreiber partner consuming and discharging water, the Sugar cane pellets are made from remnants Smarter energy use of stalk that come from the sugar refining system continually uses cooling fluid. It Responsible water use process. It’s agricultural waste – making saves 30,000 gallons of water per day. sugar cane pellets carbon-neutral fuel. That’s enough water to fill 17 Olympic-sized So instead of using heavy oil for fuel, we swimming pools per year. Our COMMUNITIES now have biomass boilers to power Where we focus our contributions Water is essential to life and one of the our production. Matching grants world’s most precious resources. Every Workplace campaigns gallon matters, and we’re committed to Feeding America saving every drop we can. Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our COMPANY
Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Our partners are very generous with their Nurturing a culture of inclusion time, talent and treasure. In addition to volunteering and providing financial Our FOOD support, they serve on hundreds of Keeping our customer commitments advisory councils, boards and planning Global Food Safety Initiative committees to enrich lives in all of Industry food-safety collaboration our communities.
Our EARTH In FY14, we contributed more than Zero waste $2 million to community organizations Smarter energy use through partner gifts, Schreiber gifts and Responsible water use supplier gifts. OUR COMMUNITIES Our COMMUNITIES Where we focus our contributions Matching grants Workplace campaigns Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Where we focus our contributions Welcome
We contribute to a variety of non-profit • Cultural and ethnic inclusion – We Our COMPANY 501(c)(3) organizations in the following areas: believe in the importance of diversity in maintaining a healthy community for Our PARTNERS • Health and human services – We support everyone, regardless of race, gender, We’re investing in our partners organizations that are dedicated to nationality or beliefs. Developing the next generation of leaders improving the physical and emotional We care about our partners’ health well-being of people of all ages. Our • Environmental sustainability – We Safety is No. 1 focus areas are children and families, support organizations that promote a Our partners care about each other “I strongly believe that giving back to the health and wellness, youth development, healthy environment in the community Nurturing a culture of inclusion community you are a part of is an essential basic needs and self-sufficiency. by encouraging activities that positively impact the environment. part of being a citizen, a professional and a Our FOOD • Community development – We Keeping our customer commitments human being. To work for an organization recognize that our local communities can that supports that concept is an amazing be strengthened by the volunteer efforts Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration and refreshing thing. Not only supporting of community and civic organizations. the community and each other in financial • Education and life-long learning – Our EARTH giving, but also having partners who truly Generations of Schreiber partners have Zero waste commit to giving their talent and time is supported strong education systems Smarter energy use in the communities we operate in. We Responsible water use what really sets the bar high. The fact that believe life-long learning is critical to Schreiber supports and encourages that the well-being of our community and participation is what helps make it happen. its economy. Our COMMUNITIES I’m so proud to be a small part of the huge Where we focus our contributions Matching grants impact made by Schreiber and its partners.” Workplace campaigns
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Matching grants Welcome
Our partners are at the heart of our partners donated enough food items Missouri partners give back in Our COMPANY community enrichment efforts. In for 126 Thanksgiving meals. They a big way fact, most of our fundraising events collected potatoes, stuffing, gravy, Partners across our Missouri locations Our PARTNERS are driven by partners themselves. vegetables, cranberry sauce and other have given more than $10,000 We’re investing in our partners To support and further encourage items, and the plant provided the through their participation in the Developing the next generation of leaders our partners’ efforts, we provide a turkeys. Several partners volunteered American Cancer Society’s Relay We care about our partners’ health company match for each approved their time at King’s Kettle to help for Life in 2013 and 2014. With the Safety is No. 1 community fundraising event. If hand out the meals to local families in company match, the relays have Our partners care about each other at least three partners are actively need. Schreiber was also the primary netted more than $20,000 for the Nurturing a culture of inclusion involved in the event or organization, sponsor of the King’s Kettle 5K Turkey plants’ local American Cancer they’ll be considered for the match. Trot, donating $5,000. Society chapters. Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments There are hundreds of examples of Richland Center partners support The Missouri locations have also our partners stepping up to support United Givers participated in events for the Global Food Safety Initiative local non-profit organizations that are Partners from the Richland Center Alzheimer’s Association, American Industry food-safety collaboration near to their hearts. Here are just a and Richland Center West plants Heart Association, Cystic Fibrosis few examples: in Wisconsin donated more than and Multiple Sclerosis Society to Our EARTH $12,000 (including Schreiber’s raise funds and awareness for these Zero waste Shippensburg partners give back company match) to the Richland organizations. Smarter energy use The holidays are a time to give County United Givers in 2013. The Responsible water use for partners at the Shippensburg, organization raises money for non- Pennsylvania, plant. For the past profit organizations serving the needs seven years, Shippensburg partners of residents in the greater Richland Our COMMUNITIES have donated in multiple ways County area, like the Boy Scouts, Girl Where we focus our contributions to King’s Kettle Food Bank, and Scouts, Greater Richland Area Matching grants Schreiber has matched many of those Cancer Elimination (G.R.A.C.E.), Workplace campaigns fundraising campaigns for clothing, Richland Community Free Clinic and Feeding America toys and more. In 2014, Shippensburg SOUL Kitchen. Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our CORE STATEMENTS Workplace campaigns Welcome
United Way Brown County United Way Our COMPANY Partners are encouraged to have a positive honors Schreiber impact on their communities through Schreiber was presented with the Our PARTNERS United Way workplace-giving campaigns. Brown County (Wisconsin) United Way’s We’re investing in our partners Throughout the company, partners Outstanding Corporate Support Award in Developing the next generation of leaders contributed $391,015 ($658,791 with the 2014. The award recognized Schreiber for We care about our partners’ health company match) in FY13, and $419,275 multiple contributions to the United Way Safety is No. 1 ($692,570 with the company match) in FY14. in 2013, including breaking the $400,000 Our partners care about each other donation mark – an 18 percent increase Nurturing a culture of inclusion Our plant locations have the opportunity in donations from 2012 – sponsoring the to decide how they’ll match partner Loaned Executive program, supporting the contributions to their local United Way or campaign kickoff and emerging leader school Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments United Givers. Most locations continue to events, participating in diaper and blanket match each partner’s contribution dollar for collection drives, and the many partners who Global Food Safety Initiative dollar up to $5,000, and 50 cents per dollar serve on various boards, councils and teams. Industry food-safety collaboration beyond $5,000. If a location has at least 75 percent partner participation, we match the Our EARTH entire amount dollar for dollar. If a location Zero waste doesn’t have a local United Way or chooses Smarter energy use to support a different organization, we match Responsible water use those donations, too.
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CommIT opportunities for individuals with Feeding America Our COMPANY Our CommIT group is focused physical, cognitive and emotional on making a bigger impact in the disabilities in a family-friendly Not all of our donations are financial. Our PARTNERS Green Bay, Wisconsin, community. atmosphere. CommIT is also We also give product donations to We’re investing in our partners In addition to supporting the United supporting My Team Triumph, an help support benefits, local run/walk Developing the next generation of leaders Way and organizing fundraising athletic ride-along program created events and countless fundraisers We care about our partners’ health activities, the group raises awareness for children, teens, adults and to help those in need in our Safety is No. 1 about benefactors and creates veterans with disabilities who would communities. Our partners care about each other volunteer opportunities for partners. normally not be able to experience Nurturing a culture of inclusion endurance events such as triathlons Through our partnership with The group raised $16,131 in FY13 or road races. Feeding America, the largest Our FOOD and $18,423 in FY14 through events nonprofit food donation organization Keeping our customer commitments such as Candy for a Cause, a summer in the U.S., we donate protein-rich Global Food Safety Initiative and fall cookout, nacho sales, products weekly from our production Oktoberfest event, Daffodil days facilities. These are, in turn, Industry food-safety collaboration and holiday cheese-box sales. These distributed to more than 200 regional fundraisers benefited organizations food banks and shelters. Our EARTH such as Special Spaces, Ecumenical Zero waste Partnership for Housing, Doty Smarter energy use Elementary Natural Playground Fund, Responsible water use the American Cancer Society, NEW Community Shelter and several more. Our COMMUNITIES Through annual holiday cheese box Where we focus our contributions sales, as well as other fundraising Matching grants activities lined up for 2015, CommIT Workplace campaigns is supporting Inspire Sports, an Feeding America organization that creates athletic Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Schreiber Charity Golf Classic CAPSA Our COMPANY The mission of CAPSA is to provide safe, Our PARTNERS Our annual Schreiber Charity Golf Classic caring, and confidential shelter, advocacy, We’re investing in our partners invites Schreiber’s suppliers to play in a and support for victims of domestic violence Developing the next generation of leaders team golf event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and sexual assault. It also tries to reduce that benefits non-profits making a significant incidents of abuse through prevention We care about our partners’ health impact in our communities. education. Proceeds from the Golf Classic Safety is No. 1 were used to build transitional housing for Our partners care about each other In 24 years, the Golf Classic has raised more victims of abuse. That’s because in 2013, Nurturing a culture of inclusion than $4.2 million for charitable organizations. needs were so great CAPSA had to turn away 100 percent of the donations made by our 150 people. Our FOOD suppliers go directly to the beneficiaries, and Keeping our customer commitments we pay for all event expenses. N.E.W. Curative N.E.W. Curative provides supportive and Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration Our 2013 Golf Classic raised $248,750 for vocational services to people with disabilities, Area Community Health Emissaries (ACHE older adults and their families. Services are Dental) in Carthage, Missouri, and the designed to help people achieve their goals Our EARTH American Foundation of Counseling Services for independence. Funds raised from the Zero waste in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Golf Classic are being used to purchase Smarter energy use technology that enhances programs and Responsible water use Our 2014 Golf Classic raised more than services for people with disabilities, the $247,000 for Community Abuse Prevention elderly and their families. Communication Services Agency (CAPSA) in Logan, Utah, devices, modified keyboards, touch screens, Our COMMUNITIES and N.E.W. Curative in Green Bay, Wisconsin. tablets and proprietary software are a few Where we focus our contributions The money donated will benefit these of the assistive technology items that are Matching grants organizations in very meaningful ways: benefiting the clients and helping to improve Workplace campaigns their daily lives. Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic
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Our CORE STATEMENTS
Welcome
Our COMPANY
Our PARTNERS We’re investing in our partners Developing the next generation of leaders We care about our partners’ health Safety is No. 1 Our partners care about each other Nurturing a culture of inclusion
Our FOOD Keeping our customer commitments Global Food Safety Initiative Industry food-safety collaboration
Our EARTH Zero waste Smarter energy use Responsible water use 2013 - 2014 responsibility report Our COMMUNITIES Where we focus our contributions Matching grants Workplace campaigns Feeding America Schreiber Charity Golf Classic