MONTRÉAL, June 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On June 5, 2025, Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) (we, Saputo or the Company) issued its 2025 Saputo Promise Report, outlining key Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) achievements and marking the completion of its most recent three-year corporate responsibility strategic cycle.
The Saputo Promise is Saputo’s approach to ESG performance, which guides the Company’s everyday actions to ensure it lives up to the values on which it was founded. It consists of seven Pillars designed to help Saputo nourish, protect, and support the communities it calls home.
“Built with our key stakeholders in mind, our Saputo Promise continues to drive, enable, and sustain our growth,” said Carl Colizza, President and CEO of Saputo Inc. “With a clear ESG framework and through the lens of our growth strategy, our focus in fiscal 2025 was to complete the execution of our three-year plan and set the stage for the next phase of growth.”
In the 2025 Saputo Promise Report, the Company is proud to highlight the following achievements:
Looking ahead
Building on the success, learnings, and challenges of previous strategic approaches, Saputo’s new three-year cycle (FY26-FY28) will allow the Company to focus on key global priorities while continuing to advance on all aspects of the Promise. It also introduces Saputo’s new 2030 Environment Pledges, which include science-based emissions reduction targets validated by SBTi, continued improvement efforts on water use, as well as streamlined waste and packaging targets.
The entire report can be obtained in the “Our Promise” section of the Company’s website, at www.saputo.com.
About Saputo
Saputo, one of the top ten dairy processors in the world, produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products of the utmost quality, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream products, cultured products, and dairy ingredients. Saputo is a leading cheese manufacturer and fluid milk and cream processor in Canada, a leading dairy processor in Australia and the top dairy processor in Argentina. In the USA, Saputo ranks among the top three cheese producers and is one of the top producers of extended shelf-life and cultured dairy products. In the United Kingdom, Saputo is the leading manufacturer of branded cheese and dairy spreads. In addition to its dairy portfolio, Saputo produces, markets, and distributes a range of dairy alternative products. Saputo products are sold in several countries under market-leading brands, as well as private label brands. Saputo Inc. is a publicly traded company and its shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “SAP”. Follow Saputo’s activities at Saputo.com or via Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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Forward-looking statements are based on Management’s current estimates, expectations and assumptions. Our ability to achieve our environmental targets, pledges, commitments, and goals (together, our “environmental targets”) is further subject to, among others: the development, effectiveness and costs of solutions to reduce emissions in dairy production systems; the ability of the Company and our industry to develop sustainable incentive models to reduce emissions; the availability of and our ability to access and implement the technology necessary to achieve our environmental targets at reasonable and sustainable costs; the development and performance of technology, innovation and the future use and deployment of technology and associated expected future results; the accessibility at sustainable costs of carbon and renewable energy instruments for which a market is still developing and which are subject to risk of invalidation or reversal; environmental regulation, and our ability to leverage our supplier relationships and our sustainability advocacy efforts. Management believes that these estimates, expectations, and assumptions are reasonable as of the date hereof, and are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, and other uncertainties and contingencies regarding future events, and are accordingly subject to changes after such date.
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