Sustainability Reports
View the 2021 Sustainability Impact Report
Past Reports
The challenges of 2020 provided us an opportunity to simplify and reaffirm our core business priorities, with a focus foremost on our employees
The report provides a close look at the work we completed in 2019, positioning us to continue delivering on our mission to produce good food the right way.
Our 2018 Sustainability Report helps demonstrate how sustainability is a part of our culture and our daily work, how we envision a better way to feed the world, and how we are making that future a reality.
This report reflects our unwavering commitment to doing business the right way the sustainable way.
The achievements in this report are the result of significant investments in our people and in the technologies and innovative processes that strengthen our position as the industry leader in sustainability.
Our overall sustainability programs and vision will continue and will evolve to tackle new challenges. And we will make the ongoing investments necessary to build on our progress to date.
The year 2014 was a record for our company, with the highest earnings in our history and our best-ever overall sales of $15 billion.
This report combines our annual financial results with highlights of our sustainability programs and performance in six key areas: animal care, employees, environment, food safety and quality, helping communities, and value creation.
This report includes results of an updated 2012 materiality analysis and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines, which provide a recommended sustainability reporting framework and indicators.
This report highlights our progress in environmental performance, animal care, food safety and quality, helping communities, and employee relations. As well as our international operations and our strengthened CSR governance and management structure.
Even during the difficult economic times of recent years, we maintained our core CSR programs, such as Helping Hungry Homes® and Learners to Leaders® while continuing progress on key issues.
This is our fourth CSR report, which builds on our experience publishing annual environmental reports from 2001 to 2004.
In the face of tough economic times, we remain committed to demonstrating CSR leadership in our industry.
Our commitment to CSR is important not only because it is the ethical thing to do and expected of us, but also because it brings value to our shareholders, customers, employees, and communities, and to the quality of life for our livestock.
In addition to performance information related to the environment, animal welfare, employee safety and community involvement, the company will report on employee policies and programs, food safety and international social responsibility.
We transform the respect we have for employees, the animals raised for food production, the environment and stakeholders into a driving force for performance improvement, innovation and value creation.
As a diversified food production and marketing company, Smithfield is dedicated to producing the highest-quality products for our customers’ tables and businesses.
As a diversified food production and marketing company, Smithfield is dedicated to producing the highest-quality products for our customers’ tables and businesses.
Environmental awareness is part of everyone's job at Smithfield. Beyond mere compliance, we encourage all employees to offer solutions that may take our environmental performance to the next level.