Strong supply chain management is fundamental to what we do. We’ve built an unparalleled network of farmers and cooperatives, and our skills in logistics and risk management help us secure supplies and deliver them to our customers with incredible reliability. We add even more value with tech that improves product traceability and sustainability.
The world of international trading is fast-paced and exciting. Our expertise is supported with rigorous research and analysis honed by quantitative tools and techniques to offer unique industry insight. Our traders analyze this proprietary information on supply and demand to give us the edge and make superior trading calls.
Our Finance team has an ambitious vision and transformation agenda. Ensuring predictable outcomes and standardized, efficient and scalable processes if of course critical. But the team also plays a vital role working with our business leaders to strategize and maximize value through innovative financing structures and other special projects.
We grow a range of crops and share learnings from one to another, driving efficiencies for us and our customers. We understand the pressures of farming and work on the ground with small scale producers to increase volumes. We stimulate opportunity with communities local to our operations through smallholder “outgrower” programs.
Our network of over 100 processing and manufacturing plants spreads across Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, Middle East and the Americas. The team is responsible for health, safety, quality, and food safety, ensuring we comply with all local laws and meet our environmental, social and ethical standards, as well as identifying efficiencies and opportunities.
We deliver transformation through cutting edge technologies. We develop systems and platforms which improve our business and make us desirable to work with as a customer, partner, or employer. These include drone image analytics, digital procurements, paperless trading, traceability mapping, as well as day to day connectivity.
International Women's Day is a moment to celebrate the progress toward achieving gender equality and women's empowerment. But it's also a chance to reflect and consider what still needs to be done to help achieve gender parity worldwide.
Take cocoa production, for example. On average, women earn only 21% of the income that men do1. At ofi, as part of our Cocoa Compass sustainability ambition and as a signatory to the UN Women's Empowerment Principles, we've been promoting gender equality in our cocoa supply chain for many years. I'll explain three ways we've approached this where I'm from, in Ghana.
By Clara Tessler, Nutrition & Health Manager, ofi
Malnutrition and poor health around the world continue to negatively impact businesses as result of working days lost to illness and reduced workforce productivity.
As well as benefiting employees, investments by companies in health and wellbeing can lead to better employee engagement, reduced absenteeism and higher performance and productivity.
We want to create an environment where employees want to come to work every day – it’s in everyone’s best interest.
To that end, at ofi we’ve set a goal that by 2030, everyone in our primary workforce will have access to nutrition support. This is the goal we are working towards to ensure the health and wellbeing of all our employees, driven by our purpose to be the change for good food and healthy future.
In 2021, with support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), ofi began the roll-out of the Workforce Nutrition Alliance’s Workforce Nutrition Scorecard to assess our baseline and develop or strengthen workplace nutrition programs that tackle issues related to malnutrition across our worksites globally. This includes initiatives across four pillars: healthy food at work, nutrition education, nutrition-focused and breastfeeding support, and resources for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.
Discover more from my discussion with GAIN and the Consumer Goods Forum in the Healthier Lives podcast:
Company and industry veteran retires after a stellar career spanning over 25 years with the company and 40 years in the industry
ofi, a global leader in naturally good food and beverage ingredients, today announced that the CEO of its cocoa business, and the group’s Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), Gerard Manley, will retire at the end of June 2023.