Who We Are

Our Approach

In 2015, we performed an extensive Corporate Materiality Analysis (CMA) that identified the material issues for our business. This analysis, while inclusive of Pilgrim’s internal perception of the company’s sustainability performance, relied heavily on the views and perceptions of outside stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, community organizations, key customers, suppliers, financial institutions, government officials, academia, industry trade associations and other industry stakeholders. The topics identified through this consultation process defines our key priority areas, five-year goals and reported annual performance.

In 2020, we hired external consultants to revisit our CMA in order to understand how the expectations of our key stakeholders may have shifted due to events such as COVID-19 and groundswells of support against racial injustice. Through surveys and in-depth interviews, stakeholders from around the world and across our supply chain provided insights that confirmed our efforts in key areas. The stakeholder feedback provided helps guide our current strategy and informed our goals for 2030 and beyond.

Additionally, the Pilgrim’s Ethics Line is used for employee consultation and we continuously gather feedback around our material issues from internal and external stakeholders through one-on-one conversations with customers, consumers, team members, subject matter experts and involvement in cross-collaborative supply chain sustainability initiatives. This feedback helps inform our process, progress to goals and annual performance which is, at minimum, annually reported to our board of directors for additional feedback and guidance. Additionally, select stakeholders were involved in the development of this report.

To fully integrate our key priority areas as identified by our CMA and ensure we remain focused on continuous improvement, we set aggressive 2020 improvement goals based on our 2015 benchmarks. Due to our recent acquisitions, our 2020 goals were only applicable to our U.S. business; however, we are now excited to announce our globally aligned 2030 improvement goals.