Tag: Kellogg Company

Kellogg Company, retailer Meijer invest to help build a strong pipeline of younger farmers in the Midwest

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg Company and Meijer are proud to announce a partnership with The National Young Farmers Coalition. The average age of the American farmer is 60-years old, and many are nearing retirement. Many young farmers do not come from farming families, which means they do not automatically transition to farmland that is turnkey and ready for them. It has been increasingly difficult for young farmers to buy land and create successful farms. The National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) works to shift power to and equitably resource the next generation of…

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Kellogg helps rice farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg’s InGrained™, a five-year partnership with Lower Mississippi River Basin rice farmers to help reduce their climate impact, is reporting early positive results. During the pilot year of the program, InGrained helped farmers implement climate-smart irrigation practices that achieved a reduction of more than 1,600 metric tons of greenhouse gases1 – the equivalent of taking more than 345 gasoline-powered cars off the road for one year. 2 Kellogg piloted the program in Northeast Louisiana in collaboration with leading agricultural greenhouse gas measurement firm Regrow Ag, rice producers, Kellogg supplier Kennedy…

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Kellogg empowers blind consumers in U.S. with NaviLens technology on packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg Company is changing the way the almost 12 million adults in the U.S. who are blind or have low vision* perform daily tasks, such as navigating a grocery store aisle or choosing one’s cereal at breakfast. To help create a place at the table, Kellogg is incorporating innovative NaviLens technology into the packaging of four of its iconic cereal brands: Kellogg’s Corn Flakes®, Special K Original®, Rice Krispies® and Crispix®. The front and side of these cereal boxes will now feature a NaviLens optical smart code comprising high-contrast colorful squares on…

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United to Feed Innovation Challenge supports unique, sustainable and equitable food projects

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg Company and United Way Worldwide have selected grant winners from the United to Feed Innovation Challenge. Underwritten by Kellogg and one of the company’s charitable funds, the partnership with United Way Worldwide supports initiatives across the globe that create sustainable and equitable access to food in a unique way. Finalists will receive grant funding to help improve or scale up their projects. “Kellogg and United Way have been community partners for close to a century,” said Stephanie Slingerland, Kellogg Company’s Senior Director, Philanthropy and Social Impact. “Programs like the…

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Kellogg Company Allocated Sustainability Bond Net Proceeds

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg Company has announced in its 2022 Sustainability Bond Impact Report that it has fully allocated the net proceeds from its inaugural sustainability bond issued in May 2021, which totaled €300 million before offering expenses and underwriting discounts and commissions. The proceeds allocated to Kellogg’s eligible global sustainability projects support significant progress already made against the company’s Better Days Promise to address the intersection of wellbeing, hunger, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion, creating Better Days for 3 billion people and the planet by the end of 2030. In fact, Kellogg…

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