Long-term and reliable partnerships based on honesty and ethical, sustainable procurement of raw materials result in respectful supply chains. This, in turn, guarantees the quality of our products and is an important factor in ensuring the future viability of our business.
Honest business and a respectful supply chain: this is only possible through reliable, long-term partnerships with suppliers and production partners. In relation to this, the most important cornerstones for us are: transparency, dialogue as equals, fair pricing, respect and mutual commitment to trustful collaboration.
Our high-quality organic food for babies and infants requires constant, crisis-proof collaboration with our partners. This is why we opt for strong partners who produce organic and biodynamic products and cooperate with farming associations.
However, both we and our customers want to know where the raw ingredients come from. Intense dialogue with our partners creates this trustful transparency. This means we can precisely track our ingredients back to their origins and thus ensure the highest quality. For us, building reliable partnerships with fair pricing is more important than maximising profits. This is why we agree on binding purchase volumes and prices with our partners every year.
Selecting and maintaining close relationships with cultivation and production partners is one of the main challenges. Although we use the certification of such farms in accordance with the EU organic, Bioland and Demeter seals as guidance, we also attach great importance to sustainable issues that go beyond such certification. Our supplier management makes it easier for us to select suitable partners and helps us to check them against sustainability criteria that are important to us.
Sustainability can only be achieved through continuous improvement and professionalisation on economic, ecological and social levels. Reaching the highest possible standards together – this is of paramount importance to both Holle and our partners.
We see sustainability as a way of life. This is why we constantly exchange ideas with our partners on how we can work together to make sustainable improvements throughout the value chain, save CO2, reduce packaging material, optimise energy concepts and act in a more climate-friendly manner in everything we do.
Wherever possible, we not only choose regional raw ingredients, but also work with our suppliers to ensure environmental, social and employment standards throughout the entire supply chain. We promote small-scale farm structures that help to improve soil and biodiversity. From the field all the way to our customers, we are dedicated to the constant analysis and optimisation of everything we do in order to minimise our emissions.
In order to deal with all of these factors safely and effectively, we rely on sound supply chain management. This also includes binding contracts and quality assurance agreements with all of our partners. When covering our raw ingredient requirements, we pay close attention to sustainable origins and focus on regionality or procurement in close proximity to our production partners wherever possible. Where this is not possible, for instance with bananas, we work with partners who ensure that raw ingredients are sourced ethically and sustainably.
The Holle organic palm oil comes from certified sustainable production (RSPO segregated) in Colombia, Ecuador and West Africa, where it is made under close consideration of social and ecological aspects and without the use of pesticides.
From a nutritional point of view, infant formula must meet special requirements. During their first year of life, babies need a high proportion of saturated fatty acids, which is why we use a blend of different vegetable oils in our infant formulas. Palm oil is extracted from the pulp of oil palm trees and is an important ingredient in Holle infant formulas made from cow’s milk.
Our recipes with wholesome organic full-cream goat’s milk make it possible for us to dispense with using palm oil. This is because, along with vegetable oils, goat’s milk fat provides the necessary saturated fatty acids and thus makes the use of palm oil superfluous. Holle formulas from goat’s milk are therefore an excellent alternative.
Germany:Milk, wheat, spelt, oats, chicken, beef, vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, pumpkin, parsnips, courgette and spinach
| Italy:Reice, apple, pear, apricot, peach and carrot purées
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Romania:Rice and tomato purée
| Hungary:Spelt, millet, rapeseed oil and sunflower oil
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Netherlands:Beetroot and goat’s milk
| Austria:Milk, wheat, spelt, corn, millet and oats
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Poland:Millet, oats, buckwheat, raspberries
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We are proud to present some of our partners:
Goat farming is a key business area at Lindenhof farm in the southern Black Forest. The farm grows its own feed, hay and grass silage for the animals.
We have been supporting the Black Forest Goat’s Milk Initiative since 2012. This aims to preserve small-scale farms in the Black Forest and secures their long-term economic viability through stable pricing structures.
In the heart of the Italian province of Trentino lies the home of Dolomiti Fruits, our production partner for our Demeter fruit and vegetable pouches.
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Sustainable and climate-friendly: we pay close attention to strict quality criteria from the outset, especially when it comes to our raw ingredients. Wherever possible, we source them regionally, process them gently, pack them responsibly and keep all transport routes as short as possible all the way to our end consumers.
The highest possible social and ethical principles form the basis of our Holle Code of Conduct, which lies at the root of everything we do. Our Code of Conduct bundles our requirements for suppliers: respect for international human rights, the renunciation of child labour, fair working conditions and environmental aspects, animal welfare and business integrity.
Our Code of Conduct forms the interface between our internal goals and our expectations concerning the conduct of our partners throughout the value chain. It consistently implements the expectations that our trading partners have of us and our supply chains. With this Code of Conduct, we exercise our duties from the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) in our supply chains.
Together with our suppliers, we implement our Holle Code of Conduct in order to ensure key aspects like quality, environmental protection and fair, social working conditions throughout the value chain. Production and working conditions must comply with the ILO Conventions, the UN Global Compact, OECD Guidelines and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. We also expect our partners to support us in the implementation of our ecological sustainability goals and assume responsibility for the areas of climate and resource protection, raw ingredient procurement, biodiversity preservation and animal welfare themselves.
Proactive commitment and close networking with associations, institutions and partners are a matter of course for us. This helps us to actively engage in dialogue and benefit from each other, expand networks and ensure that we are always up to date with the latest information. Collaboration and association membership are also important in order to have an influence on political decisions.
Holle baby food AG
Lörracherstrasse 50
4125 Riehen
Switzerland
Holle Europe GmbH
Berner Weg 23
79539 Lörrach
Germany
Contact
Tel.: +41 (0)61 555 07 00
E-Mail: babyfood@holle.ch
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