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Peatükk 1: yeah okay so as you know it's it's for my thesis i'm looking into kind of barriers and enablers for sustainable supply chain um with a focus on smes but i'm still looking to i might look to broaden the focus yes because um it's quite hard to get interviews particularly for sme so i'm kind of just looking maybe at just irish companies um as a whole thing so So beginning would you tell me a bit about your background and your role in the company and what they kind of do surrounding sustainability? 299s · Speaker 2

yeah okay so as you know it's it's for my thesis i'm looking into kind of barriers and enablers for sustainable supply chain um with a focus on smes but i'm still looking to i might look to broaden the focus yes because um it's quite hard t…

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Peatükk 2: It's charity redistribution. 109s · Speaker 1

It's charity redistribution. So we'd give away any surplus food to charity through our partnership with Food Cloud. And then we'd also work up with the operations teams just to be more efficient in using food and kind of if there's stuff go…

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Peatükk 3: you know, they're owned by local retailers, essentially local business people. 302s · Speaker 3

you know, they're owned by local retailers, essentially local business people. So we've got quite strong connections to the community. So we would have big sponsorship deals with the Tidy Towns, the GAA would be the ones that would be most …

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Peatükk 4: And then separately for our B2B customers, they're kind of like businesses in their own right and they have their own sustainability requirements. 120s · Speaker 1

And then separately for our B2B customers, they're kind of like businesses in their own right and they have their own sustainability requirements. So these things are reflected in our strategy. But I would say the key change I see now is li…

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Peatükk 5: with some of the initiatives you've touched on like what are some of the um largest barriers with uh like integrating them into your operations or like providing them to the customer you know is it like maybe lack of funding a lack of um knowledge you know across the department or whatever i would say cost is probably the big one so like for example even if you want to do that like say our scope scope one is about one percent of our overall emissions if we take scope three into it so scope one is tiny yeah and so If you want to, so we're going to do it from a pure sustainability perspective. 212s · Speaker 2

with some of the initiatives you've touched on like what are some of the um largest barriers with uh like integrating them into your operations or like providing them to the customer you know is it like maybe lack of funding a lack of um kn…

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Peatükk 6: if they You know, make the right decisions, prioritize it for what it is. 98s · Speaker 3

if they You know, make the right decisions, prioritize it for what it is. You know, it's not going to be that it's not going to never going to be too high on the agenda. There's a thousand things going on in any business at any one time and…

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Peatükk 7: confines okay i get you so would you say that like a lot of your work um or even just most grave across the board is it like an internal motive or an external motive to drive these initiatives would it be like also like you can look at it from the perspective is it like mandatory or voluntary you know what i mean like are you getting external cases from like irish government eu regulation coming in oh yeah yeah a bit of both yeah so we are regulated so yeah for example now i was we're working on a thing at the moment called the european deforestation regulation and essentially means that You have to prove that products coming from outside of you is not associated with deforestation. 300s · Speaker 2

confines okay i get you so would you say that like a lot of your work um or even just most grave across the board is it like an internal motive or an external motive to drive these initiatives would it be like also like you can look at it f…

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Peatükk 8: person can't do that well so i think and i think probably the guidance we were going out with is that if you can find out and port b are the same now in the food sectors that you you're moving towards finding out what's material to your business and um just working on that and doing that well rather than trying to be everything to everyone you know and that's probably would have been the theme for the last 10 years you know you'd have had to set targets in every area whereas now it's probably it's refining a bit now and you kind of just focus on the areas that that you're impacted by the most I get you okay well so just looking ahead now before we finish like do you think there's any Any more effective strategies or policies that could aid Irish companies in implementing further sustainability strategies in the operations or anything? 301s · Speaker 2

person can't do that well so i think and i think probably the guidance we were going out with is that if you can find out and port b are the same now in the food sectors that you you're moving towards finding out what's material to your bus…

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Peatükk 9: Yeah, exactly. 4s · Speaker 1

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so that's it. I'll stop recording there now.

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