– Suppliers are part of FIFCO’s Sustainable Purchasing program.
– Program seeks to guide suppliers to improve their sustainability practices.
Florida Ice and Farm (FIFCO) awarded the company’s most sustainable suppliers, who achieved scores over 100 within the Sustainable Purchases program.
This program involves FIFCO’s value chain in sustainable practices, and for this occasion more than 380 suppliers were evaluated under a standard methodology, which are in line with the company’s way of doing business and its sustainability goals.
The initiative ranks suppliers according to their final score and guides them in implementing an improvement plan to reduce their footprint. The program helps suppliers to develop their capabilities by providing advice during the evaluation process, technical and personalized support, an annual training program, forums, among other benefits.
Suppliers that participate in the Sustainable Purchasing program enjoy standardization of good practices in sustainability, which generates differentiation in the market, a more sustainable client portfolio, a better image and high competitiveness.
Maria Pía Robles, FIFCO’s Corporate Relations Director, commented “this program encourages suppliers to improve, since critical situations in the commercial relationship are identified and they are given a guide so they can be increasingly competitive in the labor market. This responds to our corporate responsibility to measure, reduce and offset the social and environmental impacts of the value chain, all in line with our new sustainability goals for 2025.”
For the 2021-2022 period, 23 suppliers were included in the “World Class” category:
- BELCA FOOD SERVICE
- CENTRO LOGÍSTICO y TRANSPORTES INTERNACIONALES TICAL
- CLEAN SERVICES
- DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING
- FLEXOGRAFICA DE EXPORTACION
- FOGEL DE CENTROAMERICA
- GRUPO VARGAS
- KERRY
- LIGA AGRICOLA INDUSTRIAL DE LA CAÑA DE AZUCAR
- MAQUINARIA Y TRACTORES MATRA
- QUIMICOS HOLANDA DE COSTA RICA
- RESINPLAST
- SANCHEZ GOMEZ INGENIERIA
- GEOCYCLE
- ASTEK
- BRILLANTE TICA KLEEN
- CARGILL
- CR MARINE SUPPLY
- ECOLAB
- INSTITUTO CENTROAMERICANO DE MEDICINA (SEDE GUANACASTE)
- MALUQUER
- TITZIAN
- DIVERSEY COSTA RICA S.D.R.L.
With the implementation of this type of initiative, social and environmental standards are extended to suppliers, a situation that takes on importance in the management system and improves quality in the value chain, thus developing sustainable production chains.
The Sustainable Procurement program started in 2010 as part of the adoption of FIFCO’s triple bottom line strategy and its vision of generating positive impacts in the world.
About FIFCO
FIFCO is a beverage and food company with 115 years of history, and operations in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and the United States, 7 manufacturing plants and 15 distribution centers. It has 3 business divisions that include “Florida Bebidas” (food and beverages), “Florida Hospitality” (real estate) and “Florida Retail” (retail sales). It exports to 18 countries around the world and has a portfolio of 1,500 products.
