RESPONSIBILITY AT APETIT
At Apetit, responsibility runs through the entire value chain, from field to fork. For us, a responsible food supply chain means sustainable practices throughout our operations and safe, high-quality products made from ingredients that are grown sustainably.
In our own operations, we focus on reducing our climate impact, especially by investing in renewable energy solutions and developing energy and material efficiency.
In our products, we rely on domestic plant-based food solutions and their development, growing a product range based on local fish, and sustainable and appropriate packaging solutions.
Climate impacts of food
Primary production and the food industry carry out continuous development work to reduce the environmental and climate impacts of food production. Food production and food consumption cause approximately one fifth of the carbon footprint, or climate impacts, of all consumption. Plant-based products have generally low carbon footprint.
Apetit determined the environmental footprint of its favourite products. The study analysed the carbon footprint, eutrophication effect and water footprint of the products.
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Sustainable food choices
Apetit determined the environmental footprint of our selected products. This is how one meal’s climate impacts arise – a carbon footprint of 0.46 kg of CO2 equivalent with negative eutrophication effect.
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At 2024
Sustainable actions
– 74 percent of the energy was from renewable sources.
– About 60% of the energy used for heating at Säkylä frozen foods factory was produced with heat recovery.
– 74 percent of the packaging of Apetit products that end up with consumers is recyclable material.
– In 2024, 10 % of the fish we used was local domestic fish.
– Research including cultivation and variety tests at the Räpi experimental farm continues, especially with studies on domestic pulses.
– As a result of the RypsiRapsi forum, 15 cultivation method and variety experiments have been established all over Finland.
Apetit's corporate responsibility report
Apetit’s integrated annual and responsibility report
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Well-being from vegetables
We want to promote sustainable food choices: we provide sustainably grown and prepared foods and raw materials, and we develop a value chain where people and the environment do well. About 95 percent of the raw materials used by Apetit for its frozen products are of vegetable-based.
Every year, about 150 Finnish Apetit contract growers produce millions kilos of clean, responsibly grown food for us. In 2024, 85% of all the food raw-materials we used in our frozen products were domestic.
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Climate impacts
We have reduced our own direct climate impacts (Scope 1&2) by 73 per cent from comparison year 2019. We use electricity generated by wind power in all our factories. We aim for 75% emission reductions by 2025.
In 2024 Apetit Group reached level C in in the evaluation of the global environmental organization CDP’s Climate Change program. This score indicates the company’s awareness of climate and nature related risks.
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Räpi experimental farm
The aim of the Räpi experimental farm’s R&D activities is to develop natural cultivation methods that also support the preservation of biodiversity on Finnish fields where field vegetables are grown.
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Apetit’s corporate responsibility consists of concrete actions taken at different stages of the company’s value chain to ensure responsible and sustainable food production. Indeed, sustainable actions is one of the strategic choices in Apetit’s strategy.
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Corporate responsibility programme
we want to promote sustainable food choices: we offer sustainably grown and produced food products and ingredients while developing a value chain that supports the well-being of people and the environment.
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Partner for the Finnish farmer
Apetit is strongly integrated to Finnish primary production. Apetit wants to be the best partner to Finnish grower both in oilseed products and frozen foods and vegetables. Agriculture and the food industry provide employment to roughly 340,000 people in Finland.
More domestic fish
In 2024, 10 % of the fish we used was local domestic fish. The amount of phosphorus removed from the nutrient chain by two bags of Apetit Baltic Sea Fish Fingers would grow roughly one kilo of algae in the sea if left in the water.
Sustainable packaging solutions
The degree of recyclability of Apetit’s product packaging in 2024 was 74 %. Recyclable packaging was introduced in new product groups. The change increased the use of recyclable packaging materials by more than 40,000 kilos annually.
In 2024, Apetit continued to gradually switch to using only PEFC-certified paperboard, a project which was started in 2023. In 2024, the majority of paperboard packaging was switched to PEFC-certified paperboard. During 2025, this work will be completed and only PEFC-certified paperboard will be used in packaging.
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Personnel
– At the end of 2024, Apetit had 367 employees, all of whom worked in Finland.
– One of the most important goals of personnel development is ensuring sufficient and appropriate capabilities.
Apetit’s personnel strategy focuses on among other things responsible leadership based on the company’s values and corporate culture, ensuring the availability of labour by focusing on retention and attraction factors.
Personnel
Safety at work
– All occupational accidents and severe near misses in Apetit Group are investigated internally.
– Apetit seeks to reduce the risk of accidents and illnesses in a proactive manner, especially through appropriate job-specific instructions and personal protective equipment.
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