Vion is an international food company with production locations in the Netherlands and Germany, and sales support offices in thirteen countries worldwide.
The product portfolio of Vion Food Group includes fresh pork, beef, plant based alternatives, and derived products for retail, foodservice and the processed meat industries.
Vion has listed 18 relevant CSR topics. Based on our materiality analysis Vion’s strategy prioritises five topics: food safety, animal welfare, sustainable farming, traceability and product integrity and fair pricing.
Consumers want high-quality, delicious, foods to be available anytime. Good knowledge of trends and needs is important to discern how consumers prefer to eat their food. Vion bundles all of its knowledge about markets, consumers, packaging, logistical processes, meat, alternatives and herbs and spices with one goal: to assemble an optimum assortment in collaboration with retailers that meets the demands of shoppers.
One way in which Vion tracks consumer needs is through Vion Consumer Insights. The information collected in this way is used to refine the assortment and develop new concepts, and Vion develops new, distinguishing concepts each season that capitalise on trends such as ‘ease of use’.
Transparency about food and meat production methods is a theme that is growing in importance, and Vion is actively responding to this. Vion also believes in supply chain cooperation. For instance, our Good Farming concepts are based on integrated supply chain management in which we work on food safety, quality, animal welfare and health, traceability, transparency and sustainability.