Retail Food Group goes Green

Retail Food Group a leading Australian retail food brand has taken the initiative to improve their environmental performances across their entire business.

Retail Food Group is the intellectual property owners of many popular Australian food franchises including Brumby's GO! , Donut King, Michel’sPatisserie, Brumby’sBakeries, bb’s cafe, Esquires Coffee Houses and Big Dad'sPies franchise systems.  The retail food franchisors’ business operations reach into many communities across Australia and New Zealand.

Retail Food Group believes in taking responsibility to the environment in which it operates in. The food franchisor is committed in improving environmental performance across the entirety of its business, where feasible, and will encourage business partners to join in on this effort.

Retail Food Group has already begun taking steps to improve its environmental footprint, and these include:

• Being a long term signatory to the National Packaging Covenant which is a voluntary initiative of Australian governments and private business to reduce the effects of packaging upon the environment through introduction of efficient packaging production, improved design and reducing the impacts on the environment of disposed packaging
• The introduction of environmentally sustainable packaging materials including prior replacement of foam cups within the Donut King and bb’s café system and the development of bake-able trays for the Brumby’s system which reduces paper linings and inner carton dividers
• Exploitation of sustainable measures in the design of National Office including use of energy efficient light fittings, the use of natural light to reduce air-conditioning load, environmentally appropriate landscaping and the imminent installation of light sensors in all bathrooms
• The continued advancement of fair-trade coffee products within the Esquires Coffee Houses system.