As a world-leader in kitchen appliances, our community investment activities focus on food – in cooperation with our employees and local stakeholders.

Our promise

Electrolux will inspire sustainable cooking and eating habits among consumers and professionals and support people in need.
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Roadmap 2020 to 2030

• Fully develop Electrolux Food Foundation and a strong Group approach to community investment in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.​
• Engage and inspire 300,000 kids, consumers and professionals on sustainable food habits and reach the viewership of 300 million - all by 2030.​
• Educate and train 12,000 people by 2030: ​Train unemployed and underprivileged people in sustainable cooking with the aim of finding a job. ​Educate culinary professionals in sustainable practices. ​
• Support 3 million people through meals and via donation of food, equipment, employee engagement and monetary donations by 2030​​.

The case for action

Feeding the world's growing population sustainably is one of the greatest challenges of our time. 17% of total food available to consumers is lost or    wasted¹⁾, around 750 million people are facing severe food insecurity²⁾ while more than 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight.3). Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975⁴⁾. 24% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture⁵⁾. Additionally, millions of people across the world are suffering from unemployment or in other ways struggling to put food on the table.

Our approach

As a world-leader in kitchen appliances, we believe Electrolux has both a responsibility and an opportunity to positively contribute to issues related to cooking and food consumption. For this reason, we focus our community support activities on the area of food.

Our approach aims to strengthen our corporate culture and employee pride in working for a socially responsible employer – while bringing about real community benefit. Electrolux encourages local business units to set up projects together with their employees and key partners.

The Electrolux Food Foundation

Action is facilitated through our Electrolux Food Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Electrolux in 2016. The foundation supports and funds local and global Electrolux projects that tackle food-related challenges. Its Board reviews applications from local project teams from around the Group and decides on funding. Electrolux has committed to continue funding the foundation at least until 2030.

The Feed the Planet partnership

For greater impact, Electrolux established a long-term global partnership together with Worldchefs (the world association of chefs' societies) and AIESEC (the world's largest youth organization) in 2016. This partnership supports projects with the combined expertise, skills and resources from all three organizations. Electrolux project teams plan and implement the project together with Worldchefs and AIESEC members, and additional local partners.

The Foundation and the Feed the Planet partnership support projects that do one or more of the following:

• Educate children, consumers and professionals on sustainable cooking and eating habits, for example through our program 'Food Heroes'.
• Provide professional culinary training that helps people in need to get a job in a professional kitchen, through our program 'Like a Chef'.
• Provide sustainability education for chefs and students in culinary schools.
• Support people in need through the donation of meals and equipment, employee engagement and monetary donations.

Challenges

• Ensuring that our approach to community investment leverages our global presence and our partnership, while at the same time allowing local adaption and delivering tangible societal benefit.
• Ensuring the programs are relevant and fit for purpose in the local context and in a new reality, minimizing interpersonal activities, by relying on online solutions.

References:

^{1) http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/
2) http://www.fao.org/3/ca9692en/online/ca9692en.html#chapter-executive_summary
3) https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/
4) https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
5) https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data#Sector}