Sustainability at Food ingredients North America & SupplySide West

We know sustainability is increasingly important to our visitors and exhibitors, as well as to our community as a whole. Operating Food ingredients North America & SupplySide West gives us many opportunities to improve our impacts environmentally, socially and economically in our host city. We understand that it’s not just about the way we produce our events but recognizing that we have a role to play in providing a space to work in partnership together with our markets to inspire the sustainable development of the industries we serve. Our team is driven to make our event more responsible and to also play a key role in helping our market improve its own sustainability. Read more...

Shaping the Food & Health Industry for a sustainable future

Sustainability is of increasing importance to all industries. At Informa, sustainability is central to how we run our events, how we make decisions and how we do business on a daily basis. Every year, we aim to make the event more sustainable and to encourage our visitors and exhibitors to improve their sustainability efforts. In doing so, we strive to continue to improve the industry.

1. Help our markets through inspiring sustainable development

What we focus on:

  • Providing content that enables sustainable
    development
  • Sharing best practices with our stakeholders
  • Developing market relevant partnerships

2. Run the event in an increasingly environmentally responsible manner

What we focus on:

  • Reducing our event’s carbon emissions
  • Creating less waste
  • Considering sustainability credentials of the
    items sourced for the event

3. Run the event in a socially responsible manner

What we focus on:

  • Doing business safely and ethically
  • Considering wellbeing and accessibility
  • Measuring our impacts

Our sustainable efforts

Each edition we look at ways to improve the sustainability of our events, based on the above three principles. Below is a selection of the initiatives that we have taken to improve our impact

Help our markets through inspiring sustainable development

Run the event in an increasingly environmentally responsible manner

Run the event in a socially responsible manner

How can you support sustainability

We are working with exhibitors, event partners and attendees to make Fi North America a sustainable event. As part of this plan, we have developed suggestions and tips for both exhibitors and visitors.