ESG in action: Warehouse of the Future advances Nestlé’s ambitious environmental goals The Opportunity Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has set two bold operational goals for 2030: achieving zero environmental impact and halving its absolute emissions. The company’s plan includes reducing water withdrawals, increasing renewable energy use, innovating sustainable packaging solutions and eliminating landfill waste. GXO is enabling Nestlé to advance quickly toward its targets through a new “Digital Distribution Warehouse of the Future” in the East Midlands, U.K. The facility became fully operational in March 2021, with state-of-the-art sustainability features alongside the latest in automation and robotics. The Solution Outcomes From the start, Nestlé’s 2030 goals factored heavily into GXO’s 100% Significant decrease design. A site-spanning sensor network and analytics suite LED penetration in inventory waste capture real-time data detailing the building’s carbon footprint, such as energy use and temperature controls. This data Nestlé and GXO will continue triggers timely changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. to work together to push the GXO is also helping Nestlé on its way to 100% renewable boundaries of innovation and energy sourcing and to meet its key targets with energy-saving automation to capture the value of LED lighting, environmentally friendly ammonia refrigeration, logistics and smarter supply chains air source heat pumps for administration areas and rainwater as a strategy to tackle ambitious Step inside the GXO/Nestlé harvesting. Automation solutions are helping to improve order environmental goals. Warehouse of the Future accuracy and reduce waste-related GHG emissions. HOME E S G ©2022 GXO Logisitcs, Inc. 2021 ESG Report | 31