Walmart to expand use of sustainability index to 100 more product categories

By Elaine WATSON

25-Oct-2012 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 15:53 GMT

Walmart will expand the use of an index enabling buyers to evaluate the sustainability of products to cover 200 product categories by the end of this year, bosses have revealed.

How close is Walmart to meeting its 2015 sustainable palm oil deadline?

05-Oct-2012

Walmart says it is confident it will reach its goal of using sustainably sourced palm oil for all of its private label products by the end of 2015, although it won’t give any details about how much progress it has made to date in North America.

WWF: Industry should buy into GreenPalm today, or it will struggle to source fully traceable sustainable palm oil tomorrow

05-Oct-2012

Food manufacturers are beginning to realize that buying more GreenPalm certificates now might be the only way to stimulate enough production of sustainable palm oil to make fully traceable products economically viable in future, says the World Wildlife...

The state of the US food retail market: Slower and negative growth… and rediscovering Walmart

04-Oct-2012

Does size matter? The answer is yes, if you’re supplying the US food retail market, with new data revealing that food and beverage manufacturers turning over less than $1bn have grown volumes by an average of 3.6% in the year to date, while those turning...