As Tesco celebrates 25 years in Ireland, we are committed to delivering on our core purpose of "serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day". Tesco is responsible for over 45,000 jobs nationwide, including over 13,000 colleagues working in our 153 stores, distribution centre and head office.
In partnering with over 490 Irish suppliers, our purchases of Irish agri-food support almost 14,000 farming families and help deliver more than €2.9 billion to Ireland’s economy annually.
OUR COLLEAGUES
Looking after our colleagues in a culture of trust and respect is essential to our success. We support our colleagues to feel recognised and rewarded for the work they do and, in their development, as they progress their careers. For the fifth consecutive year, we were certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 and again recognised as a Best Workplace for Women in Ireland, something we are hugely proud of. We’re a proudly diverse and inclusive organisation, where representing gender balance across our Board and at senior management is important to us. As a signatory of the Irish 30% Club, we have committed to act to increase gender diversity in senior roles. Our Irish leadership team has a balanced male-to-female ratio, led by our CEO, Natasha Adams.
OUR COMMUNITIES
We want to help build thriving communities by supporting the causes that matter most where we live and work, helping to feed those in need, and helping kids to lead healthier lives. Through our Stronger Starts programme, Tesco is set to provide one million free, healthy, and nutritious meals to primary school children and their families most in need, by May 2023. Stronger Starts provides 2,000 healthy and nutritious food packs weekly, containing apples, onions, potatoes, and carrots through 80 DEIS schools.
We’ve relaunched the much-loved Tesco Community Fund, with €1 million being made available to local causes. Since 2014, the Community Fund continues to provide vital support to community groups nationwide, amassing €6 million in donations to over 21,000 local community projects.
This year we’ve grown our charity partnership to include CHI hospitals and urgent care centres at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly with Children's Health Foundation. This partnership follows our seven-year partnership with Children’s Health Foundation Temple Street, which raised €7 million. Going forward, we commit to helping treat all sick children in Ireland, with funds raised by colleagues, customers and CHF supporters going towards vital equipment and paediatric research.
In Association with
We have no time for food waste. OLIO works with volunteer ‘Food Waste Heroes’, who visit stores to collect surplus food nearing its best before or use-by date and redistribute it to the local community. As the first major grocery retailer to work with food-sharing app OLIO, we look forward to expanding this programme nationally this year. OLIO complements our work with FoodCloud. Since 2014, together, we have redistributed 16 million meals to more than 350 charitable organisations, including afterschool clubs, youth groups and senior citizen support services; which is now more important than ever before.
OUR PLANET
Being a sustainable business is very important to us, as we work to a net zero target of 2035 for our own operations and a commitment to cut emissions, including those generated by the products we sell and across our supply chains, to zero by 2050. Tesco has a strong record in plastic waste recycling and this year, in partnership with Paltech, we launched the first plastic flowerpot to be made from 100% end-of-life waste plastic which was collected from stores. These pots can be used to grow garden plants and flowers and in turn improve biodiversity. Working with Paltech-patented technology, these waste plastics may be used in construction materials for the Tesco Ireland store network and in-store maintenance and refits including buildings, car-park barriers, and signage.
Now, more than ever, every little helps.
