2008 Award Winners - Sainsbury's

UK

619 million eggs per year (shell eggs)
2.3 million hens per year

Sainsbury's is the UK's third biggest grocery retailer. It won the Most Improved Retailer and the Best Volume Retailer awards in our Compassionate Supermarket Awards in 2007 - as well as winning a Good Egg Award previously for committing to go cage-free on all shell eggs by 2012. They have now moved this target date forward to 2010. Sainsbury's has earned itself a 2008 Good Egg Award for committing to going cage-free on all the egg ingredient in own label products by at least 2012.

"We are delighted to receive our second Good Egg Award from Compassion in World Farming, in recognition of us bringing forward our date to stop selling any caged shell eggs and our commitment to convert the egg used as an ingredient in Sainsbury's brand food and drink to free-range by 2012. Animal Welfare is important to Sainsbury's and to our customers and our work on egg sourcing is just one of the ways in which we are improving the health and welfare of livestock used to produce Sainsbury's food and drink, in line with our value to source with integrity."
Judith Batchelar, Director of Brand

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