Supporting local initiatives and employee charity events
In addition to our internal social programmes, we also support a number of local initiatives that make a positive contribution to our community. We select initiatives that have a strong connection to Lely. Because they are located in close proximity to our campus, because of an employee's close involvement with the initiative or because they are relevant to our sector. One of the local organisations we support is care farm Hoeve Onderweg. By donating our award money from the Dutch AgriBusiness Awards, Hoeve Onderweg was able to improve the accessibility of their property for all target groups. We also sponsor several local sports clubs and support employee participation in charity events such as the Alpe d’Huzes.
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Feed the Future
Challenge
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Red Socks
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GoDare
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Fit@Lely
Develop a new, wearable, safe, and sustainable clothing line. That was the assignment we gave to the supplier of our company clothing.
clothing line
Lely strives towards circular dairy farming. The same ambition is in place for our own products and services.
waste streams at
the Lely Campus
Two Lely experts share their vision on energy efficiency on the Lely Campus and Lely Campus phase 2.
at the Lely Campus
In 2022, we will finalise and present our goals, KPIs, and action plan concerning the emissions related to our own operations (scope 1 and 2 of the GHG-protocol). This plan will include the following steps:
- Define our decarbonization path, within our operations, and set time-bound goals towards net zero emissions.
- Analyse, calculate and begin collecting data on our most relevant scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions throughout our value chain).
Lely is a family business rooted in family values. We take care of our 2,100 employees, our customers around the globe and the communities we operate in. People are at the heart of our business, and we see it as our duty to contribute to their well-being. As an employer, we act on our mission and vision to create a strong sense of purpose. We provide employees with opportunities for personal and professional development. And by supporting initiatives designed to empower the next generation of innovators, we not only pay our company's success forward, but carry forward our passion for farming. For enjoyable, profitable and sustainable farming, now and in the future.
Sutainability programme
Our sustainability programme is built on two pillars:
- Bright business is about how we act and work as a company. We recognise that achieving our mission starts with our own business activities and operations.
- Bright farming is about having a positive impact on dairy farming. We aim to make positive contributions to the industry with our solutions and through our business activities.
Within these three pillars, we have identified three ambitions:
- For cow – to contribute to improving animal welfare on dairy farms.
- For people – to facilitate enhancing the well-being of people in every part of the dairy chain.
- For planet – to make it possible to reverse the environmental impact in every part of the dairy chain.
From ambitions to KPIs
Developing and executing a sustainability strategy is a significant undertaking that requires the buy-in of all stakeholders: our investors, our employees, our suppliers and our customers. By conducting a materiality assessment, we determined which environmental, social and governance themes stakeholders deem most important and are material to our business.
By plotting these topics in the value creation model developed by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), we want to illustrate how we create value for our stakeholders, now and in the future. This model will support us in the adoption of an integrated steering and reporting method, in which we don't make strategic decisions in isolation based on an anticipated financial or non-financial outcome but based on the impact on the value we create.
Using this model, we developed our plan for sustainable, profitable and enjoyable dairy farming. That plan is two-fold: it addresses the role of our company's own business activities, as well as the role of our partners, upstream and downstream, on value creation.
We will translate this plan into concrete and measurable goals. To this end, we conducted interviews to align with Lely's current business goals and to assess what data is available to measure our progress towards these goals.
Sustainable, profitable
and enjoyable
To feed an estimated 10 billion people by 2050, global food production must be increased by 70%. Dairy farming plays a significant role in providing essential nutrition to this growing population. At the same time, the awareness of the impact of dairy farming is growing, both within the industry and among consumers, who want to trust that their dairy products are produced with genuine care for cow, people and planet. In 2020, Lely began its sustainability journey aimed at improving animal welfare, reversing dairy farming industry's environmental impact and supporting farmers. By taking responsibility for our own impact as well as the impact of our solutions on the industry's impact, we can achieve our vision of a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in farming.
At Lely, we are on a journey to help farmers meet their needs and realise the potential of dairy in a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable way. This has been our driving force since 1948. We want to accelerate change and drive progress. We are farming innovators.
Lely is a family business rooted in family values. We take care of our 2,100 employees, our customers around the globe and the communities we operate in. People are at the heart of our business, and we see it as our duty to contribute to their well-being. As an employer, we act on our mission and vision to create a strong sense of purpose. We provide employees with opportunities for personal and professional development. And by supporting initiatives designed to empower the next generation of innovators, we not only pay our company's success forward, but carry forward our passion for farming. For enjoyable, profitable and sustainable farming, now and in the future.
Supporting local initiatives and employee charity events
In addition to our internal social programmes, we also support a number of local initiatives that make a positive contribution to our community. We select initiatives that have a strong connection to Lely. Because they are located in close proximity to our campus, because of an employee's close involvement with the initiative or because they are relevant to our sector. One of the local organisations we support is care farm Hoeve Onderweg. By donating our award money from the Dutch AgriBusiness Awards, Hoeve Onderweg was able to improve the accessibility of their property for all target groups. We also sponsor several local sports clubs and support employee participation in charity events such as the Alpe d’Huzes.
+
Feed the Future Challenge
+
Red Socks
+
GoDare
+
Fit@Lely
Lely strives towards circular dairy farming. The same ambition is in place for our own products and services.
waste streams at
the Lely Campus
Two Lely experts share their vision on energy efficiency on the Lely Campus and Lely Campus phase 2.
at the Lely Campus
In 2022, we will finalise and present our goals, KPIs, and action plan concerning the emissions related to our own operations (scope 1 and 2 of the GHG-protocol). This plan will include the following steps:
- Define our decarbonization path, within our operations, and set time-bound goals towards net zero emissions.
- Analyse, calculate and begin collecting data on our most relevant scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions throughout our value chain).
Sutainability programme
Our sustainability programme is built on two pillars:
- Bright business is about how we act and work as a company. We recognise that achieving our mission starts with our own business activities and operations.
- Bright farming is about having a positive impact on dairy farming. We aim to make positive contributions to the industry with our solutions and through our business activities.
Within these three pillars, we have identified three ambitions:
- For cow – to contribute to improving animal welfare on dairy farms.
- For people – to facilitate enhancing the well-being of people in every part of the dairy chain.
- For planet – to make it possible to reverse the environmental impact in every part of the dairy chain.
From ambitions to KPIs
Developing and executing a sustainability strategy is a significant undertaking that requires the buy-in of all stakeholders: our investors, our employees, our suppliers and our customers. By conducting a materiality assessment, we determined which environmental, social and governance themes stakeholders deem most important and are material to our business.
By plotting these topics in the value creation model developed by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), we want to illustrate how we create value for our stakeholders, now and in the future. This model will support us in the adoption of an integrated steering and reporting method, in which we don't make strategic decisions in isolation based on an anticipated financial or non-financial outcome but based on the impact on the value we create.
Using this model, we developed our plan for sustainable, profitable and enjoyable dairy farming. That plan is two-fold: it addresses the role of our company's own business activities, as well as the role of our partners, upstream and downstream, on value creation.
We will translate this plan into concrete and measurable goals. To this end, we conducted interviews to align with Lely's current business goals and to assess what data is available to measure our progress towards these goals.
Sustainable, profitable
and enjoyable
To feed an estimated 10 billion people by 2050, global food production must be increased by 70%. Dairy farming plays a significant role in providing essential nutrition to this growing population. At the same time, the awareness of the impact of dairy farming is growing, both within the industry and among consumers, who want to trust that their dairy products are produced with genuine care for cow, people and planet. In 2020, Lely began its sustainability journey aimed at improving animal welfare, reversing dairy farming industry's environmental impact and supporting farmers. By taking responsibility for our own impact as well as the impact of our solutions on the industry's impact, we can achieve our vision of a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in farming.
At Lely, we are on a journey to help farmers meet their needs and realise the potential of dairy in a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable way. This has been our driving force since 1948. We want to accelerate change and drive progress. We are farming innovators.