THE manufacturer, Mondelez International, makers of the UK’s favourite treats including Cadbury Dairy Milk, Green and Black’s, BelVita, Maynard’s Bassetts and OREO has switched to renewable electricity for all six of its production sites across the UK, including its Crediton site, Ernest Jackson and Company.

The snacking leader is switching to purchased 100 per cent renewable electricity across six sites including its Chirk production site where Mondelez International processes all its cocoa beans to make cocoa crumb.

The crumb is then sent to the iconic Bournville factory, the heart and home of Cadbury in the UK, used in the Bournville RDQ centre to create products of the future.

The switch also includes Sheffield factory the home of Maynard’s Bassetts, Minworth, Marlbrook and Crediton.

Mondelez International has signed a contract to provide all six production sites with sustainable electricity that has been generated solely in Great Britain.

The transition to 100 per cent renewable electricity sourced within the UK for these production sites means that Mondelez International can offset the equivalent of 2,900 people’s annual CO2 emissions.

This is calculated using the UK government’s findings that the average Brit emits around seven tonnes of CO2 annually. The UK business now joins other Mondelez production sites in using 100 per cent renewable electricity including Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.

This move builds on previous progress by the company who have already achieved a reduction of 20 per cent C02 emissions across production sites by the end of 2020.

Mondelez says this was made possible by an increased use of renewable electricity globally, moving from just eight per cent to 23 per cent of total electricity used.

This increase played a key part in enabling the company to achieve a significant reduction in CO2 emissions – by 147,109 tonnes, from 1,336,793 tonnes in 2019 to 1,189,684 tonnes in 2020. This annual reduction in CO2 is equivalent to taking 31,993 cars off the road for one year.

In February 2020 Mondelez International announced a new goal to reduce end-to-end CO2 emissions by 10 per cent by 2025.

This new goal is a science based target (SBTI) and a core part of the company’s Snacking Made Right strategy to create a sustainable future for both people and planet.

Louise Stigant, UK Managing Director, Mondelez International, said: “Using 100 per cent renewable electricity, that is also generated here, across our six production sites is a huge step towards reducing our carbon emissions here in the UK, whilst supporting our global target and our mission to make our snacks in the right way.”

ERNEST JACKSON

With a heritage dating back to 1817, Ernest Jackson has 200 years’ experience and expertise in developing, manufacturing and marketing medicated confectionery and vitamin pastilles.

Ernest Jackson offers a wide range of well-known branded products, as well as a comprehensive contract manufacturing service.

At the factory site in Crediton, Ernest Jackson has the capability to manufacture pastilles, sugar boilings and paste lozenges, made to exacting standards, some to formulae handed down by generations and others to meet the ever evolving market requirements.

Ernest Jackson currently employs more than 150 people across two sites.

In 1817, a Crediton based pharmacist, William Searle, was asked to prescribe "something effective but soothing" for a troublesome sore throat.

As a result, he developed a range of medicated lozenges which he manufactured and sold from his Pharmacy on Crediton High Street. In 1891, William Searle sold the company to Edward Ernest Jackson.

Ernest Jackson’s brands and products are available throughout the UK and many countries worldwide. Through years of experience in developing, manufacturing and marketing a vast array of medicated confectionery products, Ernest Jackson has become one of the biggest players in the UK medicated confectionery market.