Cortilia publishes the Impact Report 2025 with growing Esg results

Cortilia has published the Impact Report 2025, which summarises the results achieved in the areas of the environment, society and governance over the past year.

Gender equality

The report documents Cortilia's continuous improvement journey, demonstrated first and foremost by obtaining the Gender Equality Certification, which recognises the company's policies on equity, inclusion, equal opportunities and support for parenthood, adopted with a score of 88 points out of 100, as well as by the B Corp recertification, obtained with a score of 92,2 points: an achievement marking an increase of 8,1 points compared with the result obtained in 2022.

Environmental sustainability

Particularly significant progress was recorded in the area of environmental sustainability, reflecting an increasingly integrated approach throughout the entire value chain: from packaging management, with 98% of the range made using recyclable materials, to logistics, where trials of home deliveries with new-generation electric vehicles continue; from the careful selection of suppliers, which contributes to a range composed predominantly of Italian products, to the reduction of food waste.

There are, in fact, numerous initiatives implemented to prevent and eliminate food waste, including the “Save the Food” initiative, which offers products approaching their expiry date with discounts of up to 50% and which, in 2025, made it possible to prevent the waste of approximately 360 tonnes of food. This is complemented by the partnership with Banco Alimentare, which enables any surplus to be recovered and allocated to affiliated charitable organisations. An integrated system that makes it possible to enhance the value of every product and minimise unrecoverable surplus.

On the environmental front, in 2025, Cortilia systematically measured its Carbon Footprint, quantifying a direct and indirect emissions impact of approximately 585 tonnes of CO2eq (Scope 1 and 2), and extending the analysis to indirect emissions throughout the entire value chain (Scope 3). The reporting of Scope 3 is aimed at building a transparent business model that supports the entire network of suppliers towards a genuinely shared ecological transition, structured and based on concrete data. Furthermore, thanks to the use of a photovoltaic system with a capacity of 1,5 MWp, in 2025 Cortilia saved 830 tonnes of CO2, an amount equivalent to the energy requirements of 550 households for an entire year.

Consumer awareness

The 2025 Impact Report also describes Cortilia's commitment to raising consumer awareness: in 2025, digital campaigns dedicated to a healthy and balanced diet reached more than 500.000 people. Among the most significant initiatives was the partnership with Fondazione Veronesi for the “Io Vivo Sano: alimentazione e movimento” project, which involved approximately 1.000 pupils from ten Milan primary schools in educational workshops dedicated to the importance of prevention and a balanced diet.

The comment

“In a constantly changing food market, we have chosen to evolve our model to make it even more resilient, inclusive and impactful, and the B Corp recertification is proof that we are able to generate value for people and the planet. As Cortilia, we look to the future with the awareness that environmental and social challenges require increasingly courageous responses: our aim is to demonstrate that a transparent, fair and regenerative food supply chain is not only possible, but necessary,” declares Andrea Colombo, ceo of Cortilia.

This article was translated from the original Italian version with the assistance of artificial intelligence. In case of discrepancies, please refer to the original Italian version.