Towards carbon neutrality in K Group

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Kesko’s new emissions reductions targets with which Kesko commits to the most ambitious aim of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between ...

In 2017, K Group committed to reducing its energy consumption by 7.5% by the year 2025. Data now show that K Group has achieved the objective four years ahead of schedule.

K Group is increasing its purchases of Finnish wind power. K Group has signed an agreement to purchase annually some 50 GWh of electricity generated in a wind farm to be built in Northern Ostrobothnia, starting in 2023.

The reduction in food waste generated in K-food stores last year was attributable to various factors: demand grew during the pandemic, while K Group also took active measures and K-retailers came up with innovative solutions to minimise food waste. T...

Riikka Joukio joined Kesko’s Group Management Board on 12 April as she began work as the Executive Vice President in charge of corporate responsibility and public affairs. Before joining Kesko, she worked at Metsä Group, most recently as Senior Vice ...

K Group continues investments in its K Charge network in 2021, with focus on high power charging (HPC) stations. K Charge is the biggest fast charging network for electric vehicles in Finland, and K Group will build 20 new K Charge stations before th...

K Group’s foodservice company Kespro is making changes to its transport packaging in order to reduce the consumption of cardboard by some 50 tonnes per year. As restaurants and cafés in Finland are obliged to recycle cardboard waste from foodservice ...

K Group and EnerKey are carrying out a new pilot which uses artificial intelligence to identify opportunities to save energy at K-food stores. The first results indicate that artificial intelligence can help improve the energy efficiency of stores, b...

Cocoa from Africa, soy from South America and palm oil from Indonesia – how does K Group ensure that the production of the products it sells does not harm the environment? K Group sees loss of biodiversity as a significant threat and will further str...

Kesko has been ranked as the most sustainable grocery trade company in the world for the seventh year. The ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’ list presents the world’s top 1% of sustainable companies based on a comprehensive sust...

CDP, a global climate research provider that reviews how companies disclose and manage their environmental impacts, has given its best A score to six Finnish companies, Kesko among them. K Group is moving towards carbon neutrality by increasing the u...

Solar power production will increase in the Mäntsälä area when the solar power plant at K-Citymarket Mäntsälä is taken into use at the end of August. K Group, which is one of the largest solar power producers and users in Finland, invests in renewabl...

According to its new climate goals published in the spring, K Group aims to be carbon neutral in 2025 and reduce emissions to zero by 2030. Matti Kalervo, Vice President for Corporate Responsibility at Kesko, tells us more and how the goal will be ac...

The more than 40,000 solar power panels installed on the rooftops of K Group stores produced a record 3,000 MWh of pure solar electricity in May and June this year. When conditions are right, solar power can cover the majority of a store’s daily elec...

The Ham Trick campaign again broke a new record last Christmas, this time around encouraging nearly 200,000 Finnish households to recycle their waste Christmas ham fat. A staggering 58,500 kilos of fat was collected during the campaign, and it was us...

Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the exceptional circumstances it has brought about, K Group continues to focus on its climate efforts, striving to become carbon neutral by 2025. We will systematically reduce emissions to reach zero emiss...

K Group will increase its share of renewable electricity by committing to purchasing wind power from a new wind farm to be built in Finland for the next 15 years. This will increase K Group’s own renewable energy production sixfold by the end of 2022...

Real estate accounts for over 30% of emissions in Finland. K Group and Granlund have developed an energy recycling model for K-food stores that can reduce heat consumption by as much as 95%, turning a property almost carbon neutral in terms of energy...

During 2019, K Group has been making changes to the packaging of its own brand products, significantly reducing the amount of plastic. The change in the packaging of Pirkka mini plum tomatoes alone will save 45 tonnes of plastic per year, equal to 2....