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Corporate Social Responsibility in Food & Grocery 2014
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Contents
Summary 5
Key Findings and Executive Summary 6
Introduction 8What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 9Importance of CSR 10CSR in Practice 11Government Policy 12Definitions (CSR) 13CSR and Brand Loyalty 14Ethical Initiatives 15
CSR initiatives 16Overall Awareness of CSR Initiatives 17Community Initiative 18Initiatives that had the Most Positive Impact from a Shopper Perspective
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Brand Image 29Important Factors 30Paying More for Ethically Sourced Products 31Food Labelling 32
Methodology 33
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Summary
If CSR changes shoppers perceptions of a brand
The FMCG brands that are deemed to have a good/poor CSR reputation
If shoppers are willing to pay more for ethically sourced products
If CSR really affects a shoppers’ purchasing decisions
If shoppers are familiar with ethically sourced logos (e.g. Fair-trade)
The importance for brands to support local communities
The importance for a brand to have a CSR policy from a shoppers’ perspective
The impact of corporate sponsorship from a shoppers’ perspective
CSR
This report will tell you:
Key Findings
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and
were the most well known
initiatives with 58% and
45% of shoppers knowing of them respectively
Health initiatives have the most impact on Brand Image
The Fairtrade logo is the most recognisable logo found on Food and grocery products with 81% recognising it.
51% of shoppers would pay more for a product if it was Fairtrade
50% of shoppers saw Asda in a more positive light after hearing about heir initiative to donate money to victims of flooding.
This was the highest change in attitude of all of the initiatives mentioned.
communityinitiative
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Government Policy
High on the list of the UK Government’s priorities is to achieve sustainable and balanced economic growth across the UK, as well as building a stronger, fairer society. The government see responsible business as being central to this and how they can stimulate and support action by business to increase their positive impact on society and the environment and reduce their negative effects, whilst enabling growth within business, is key.
CSR is the voluntary action businesses take over and above legal requirements to manage and enhance economic, environmental and societal impacts.
It is about being a responsible business and as a part of an integrated and strategic approach creates shared value for business and society. The exact approach varies and is influenced by factors such as business size, sector and locality.
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Overall Awareness of CSR Initiatives
We presented respondents with 10 CSR initiatives - two each of community, health, environment, sponsorship and charity. We asked them if they were aware of the initiative, and to rate the organisation involved in either of the following ways:
Positive
Neutral
Negative
The 10 CSR initiatives are individually detailed on the following pages…
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Community Initiative
Do they think more positively of Asda?
71% 26% 3%
48% 49% 3%
communityinitiative
Asda recently donated £400,000 to communities impacted by the flooding in
the South West of England
Awareness of this initiative:
10%
Of those that were aware of the initiative
Of those that were not aware of the initiative
Paying More for Ethically Sourced Products
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of shoppers would pay more for Fairtrade
of shoppers would pay the
same for Fairtrade
31%
of shoppers would pay less
for Fairtrade
18%51%
We were interested to know what percentage of shoppers would pay more for ethically sourced products. We presented the respondents with the following scenario…
Thinking broadly, if the standard price for bananas was 70p per kilo, would you be willing to pay more/less/same if the farmer got a better deal?
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Methodology
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Secondary and desk research
Preliminary quantitative survey
Main quantitative surveyInsights
• Evolution carries out a preliminary survey of around 100 shoppers, to test questions for the main survey.
• Detailed secondary and desk research is conducted to define the topic area, macro drivers and trends, scope and examples of within the research topic.
• Initial insights gained are used to help further design the main survey.
• A main survey is completed by at least 1,000 UK adults who are the primary household shopper for food & grocery.
• Comprehensive and detailed assessment of all the data received was then used to discover insights.
• Throughout this process, primary research was supported by secondary research drawing on Evolution’s proprietary databases, national statistics, news and industry resources.
Methodology
Evolution’s methodology
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