ABP has grown into an international business but we never forget our roots. Find out where we’re coming from, as a business and as people.
ABP’s vision is simple. To be the best at everything we do. Being a market leader comes with responsibilities. You also have to lead on quality, traceability and sustainability.
It’s our responsibility as leaders in the market to show the way, and encourage our entire industry to follow a sustainable path.
This is ABP’s Advantage Beef Programme, a dynamic new enterprise partnership that helps farmers build a sustainable beef business.
A recent Meat Business Women report shows that 36% of the meat industry’s workforce is female, with 14% of those at board level and only 5% in executive roles. As well as the industry in general, at ABP we need to do better. That’s why we’ve launched a new initiative: ABP She.
ABP She is a programme that promotes female empowerment in our business. It will identify and support female talent, work to close the gender pay gap in the meat industry and make every career opening in the company visible to each woman who works with us.
We designed ABP She following consultations with focus groups, and discussions with women employees, which brought up the obvious fact that there is a lack of female role models in the business.
To begin addressing this problem, each ABP site has nominated two female employees to train as mentors of their colleagues. Mentorship will become a self-renewing programme as it helps us to identify others who want to become mentors. We hope that it will encourage women to grow in their roles and beyond them, claiming opportunities in an atmosphere of equality and esteem.
ABP She Booklet
An employee assistance scheme will offer information on subjects such as the menopause, and family challenges. Free sanitary products will be available at every ABP facility and site. The company will also implement protocols to eradicate unconscious bias and non-inclusive language.
ABP She is part of our drive to be more progressive in our own company as well as offering an example to our industry. As far as promoting gender parity is concerned, it’s about time.