SPAR – A Cooperation for Sustainability

The commercial enterprise SPAR Austria has integrated environmental protection into the company principles. The cooperation with SERI aimes to measure and further improve the ecological sustainability performance in several divisions and of several products of SPAR Austria.

Since September 2008 SERI consults SPAR Austria on their way to a further improvement of the sustainability in the company.
To identify the status quo of the ecological impact of the company´s divisions store brands, fresh meat/ cold cuts, logistics as well as construction and  energy, greenhouse gas emissions and resource use were assessed. Based on the study’s results, measures for improving SPAR Austria’s ecological performance were implemented, which are described at the website “Zeichen setzen”(“to put a sign”)

Please find further information on the project website.

The outcomes of the first study on meat demonstrated that about 90 % of the environmental effects of fresh meat and cold cuts are caused in the meat production. Therefore, the objective of the study in 2010 was to assess the reality of Austrian pork production (AMA, Gustino Stroh, Bio Austria) with up-to-date data.
Please find further information on the project website.