Sainsbury’s Partners With Foodsteps to Measure and Reduce the Environmental Impact of Their Supply Chain

London, UK – 25 March, 2026 – Foodsteps, a leading food sustainability data and technology partner, is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Sainsbury’s to measure and reduce environmental impact across its supply chain. This collaboration unites two forward-thinking organisations dedicated to driving measurable progress in reducing the environmental impacts of the food system.

Through its Plan for Better strategy, Sainsbury’s has integrated sustainability into the core of its business, making a public commitment to achieve Net Zero across its value chain by 2050 and championing a sustainable food system as a central pillar of its customer promise.

Foodsteps has partnered with Sainsbury’s to build a granular, auditable data ecosystem capable of assessing its extensive product portfolio. This partnership brings together Foodsteps' science based, product level data with their ability to collect supplier data at scale through their AI enabled Supplier Hub empowering Sainsbury’s to make sustainability central to every supplier conversation.  

By drawing on the Foodsteps’ extensive work shaping industry standards through pioneering initiatives such as the Led 4 Food and Hestia projects, Sainsbury’s is moving beyond high-level estimates toward a new benchmark for transparency and measurable action across the UK food system.

While the food sector faces complex interlinked global challenges of climate change and nature loss, this partnership aims to turn sustainability commitments into demonstrable and reportable action. This collaboration will foster innovation and accelerate supplier engagement, empowering the wider supply chain to drive meaningful environmental improvements in pursuit of a more resilient food system.

Anya Doherty, Founder of Foodsteps, commented: “We are incredibly excited to partner with Sainsbury’s on its ambitious Plan for Better journey. At Foodsteps, we are on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its transition to net zero. Working alongside a retail leader like Sainsbury’s allows us to scale that impact, driving collaborative change that benefits suppliers, customers, and the planet.”

Stephanie Lambert, Managing Director of Foodsteps, commented: “Building a resilient food system requires the infrastructure to make collaboration scalable. We are inspired by Sainsbury's commitment to using our granular, science-based data and the Foodsteps Supplier Hub to drive decarbonisation across their entire supply chain. By meeting suppliers where they are and providing an automated route for high-fidelity data, we are proving that deep scientific rigour can be applied at the speed and scale the industry urgently needs.”

‍Ruth Cranston, Director of Sustainability at Sainsburys, commented: “As the food system faces mounting pressures from climate change and wider global uncertainty, it's more important than ever that we work together to drive the resilience and sustainability of our supply chain. By partnering with Foodsteps, we gain higher quality carbon data that will help us track our emissions reductions and advance our ambitions to protect and restore nature, supporting our Plan for Better commitments and helping us to drive real and lasting change for people and the planet.”

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About Foodsteps:

Foodsteps is on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero. Founded in 2019, our specialised food sustainability platform and in-house experts provide instant access to industry-leading data and insights that Food businesses can trust to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact across the value chain. With Foodsteps, food businesses reduce the costs and risks of their net zero transition, and improve business performance as a result. Now backed by the global resources of Registrar Corp, we are uniquely positioned to lead the food industry’s transition to a net-zero future.

About Sainsbury’s:

Offering delicious great quality food at competitive prices has been at the heart of what we do since John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury opened our first store in 1869. Today, inspiring and delighting our customers with tasty food remains our priority and our purpose is clear – we make good food joyful, accessible and affordable for everyone, every day.

Our focus on great value food and convenient shopping, whether in-store or online is supported by our brands – Argos, Nectar, Tu Clothing, Habitat and Smart Charge. Sainsbury’s has almost 600 supermarkets and over 800 convenience stores. Argos is a leading digital retailer and is the third most visited retail website in the UK, with over 70 per cent of its sales starting online. Argos is conveniently available for customers to collect from hundreds of Sainsbury’s stores. Digital and technology enables us to adapt as customers shop differently and our profitable, fast-growing online channels offer customers quick and convenient delivery and collection capability.

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