service providers and vendors
livestock and poultry producer partners
paid to livestock and poultry producer partners
The nature of our business demands we work with a diverse set of suppliers that range from family farm partners who raise our chickens and hogs to large, multinational companies that manufacture and provide services for our production facilities. We work in partnership with over 17,600 suppliers to ensure the highest-quality inputs.
As part of the Pilgrim’s supply chain, our vendors contribute to our overall sustainability. Impacts related to the environmental and social pillars of sustainability differ for each of our unique suppliers based on the material they manufacture or sell, the species of livestock or poultry they raise, and the service they provide. Our ability to directly affect these impacts is often outside of our immediate control; however, we strive to partner with suppliers who share our values to achieve a more sustainable food supply.
As part of our efforts to minimize impacts in the supply chain, we developed a Supplier Code of Conduct. It ensures that suppliers agree to meet or exceed our high standards when conducting business with Pilgrim’s. The code covers human rights, forced labor, freedom of association and collective bargaining, minimum age for employment, equal employment opportunity, employment practices, health and safety, environmental issues and business integrity, which includes anti-corruption and bribery. We have reminded all of our contracted suppliers of our code of conduct and reiterated the importance of compliance.
Partnering with up to 100 of our family farm partners and a third party to help identify priority, real-world opportunities to reduce GHG emissions in chicken houses. We will continue to invest in research and development projects throughout our supply chain as part of our Net Zero by 2040 commitment.
*Pilgrim’s is included in the commitment of its parent company, JBS, to invest $100MM in value chain R&D projects by 2030.
We are committed to continually improving our business, our products and our supply chain. We understand that our responsibility spans beyond production under our direct control and that we must collaborate with our supplier partners to improve the overall sustainability of our supply chain.
We are proud to partner with suppliers to ensure the quality, consistency and safety of our products. In the U.S., and Puerto Rico, we have approximately 4,200 service providers and vendors with the average partnership spanning 12 years. In Mexico, we work with over 2,000 service providers and vendors and our average partnership length is approximately eight and a half years. In Europe, we partner with more approximately 5,000 service providers and vendors for an average of more than seven years.
Where possible, we seek to partner with minority-owned businesses. In 2021, our U.S. and Puerto Rican teams purchased products and services worth more than $181 million from minority-owned businesses.
*Includes U.S. and Puerto Rican facilities
Learn more about how our vendors, family farms and ranches are helping us achieve our supply chain goals.
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