OUR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

As field players, we are involved at every level of the value chain. Our vision and collective action plan for a more sustainable and responsible agro-industry builds on our 175 years of experience working alongside producers' communities and tropical ecosystems.

PACT, the Positive Agri Culture by Touton, is the group’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy, based on Touton’s vision of what trade will look like in the future.

Founded on our extensive expertise for managing challenges in our supply chains and aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Positive Agri Culture strategy sets 3 clear objectives: fostering POSITIVE GROWTH, building a RESILIENT AGRI-INDUSTRY, nurturing a CULTURE OF TRUST.

It serves as a unifying force, embodying our group’s values, due diligence approach and actionable strategies for engaging with stakeholders and ecosystems.

• Positive: In line with our entrepreneurial spirit.
• Agri: Because agricultural raw materials are at the heart of what we do.
• Culture: The relationship of trust that we build to connect all actors of the value chain: from partner-producers to colleagues and clients.

PACT Strategy

Integrates our group commitments and policies, including our Due Diligence policies for Human Rights, Labour Rights and Environment, Touton Code of Ethics, Supplier Code of Conduct, Grievance Mechanism, but also our Food quality and safety policy and our Climate strategy
Underpins the group’s sustainability report and anticipates key aspects of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Feeds into our management systems and processes, informing several operational standards and ratings of the group, such as IFS Broker Standard (headquarters), ISO 9001 (in the Ivory Coast) or FSSC22000 (CTPC factory in Ghana)
Provides the backbone for our verified responsible sourcing instrument: PACT STANDARD

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CLIMATE STRATEGY & CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION OFFICIAL COMMITMENT

Touton has officially committed to set near-term (2035) company-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 °C with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). With 93% of the group’s GHG emissions stemming from agricultural production, we aim to lead by example by enhancing the environmental performance of our direct operations.

At the group level, we will also support supply chain actors in their climate transition by promoting low-carbon transportation, implementing a zero-deforestation policy, or enhancing the capacity of natural carbon sinks through agroforestry.

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2025-26

This year’s report reflects a new chapter for Touton: a year of transition shaped by investments in the people, processes and data behind its trading and supply chains.

Its integration into Hartree and changes in the executive management structure strengthen the group’s capacity to develop its activities while preserving its identity and merchant culture. Amid volatile markets and pressure on financing and logistics, Touton continued to honour its commitments to producers and customers across its cocoa, coffee and ingredients supply chains.

Alongside this transition, the group reinforced quality management, supplier oversight and traceability, supporting risk management and readiness for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). A more detailed carbon footprint now informs its decarbonisation roadmap towards 2035, while the first vanilla volumes produced under Touton’s PACT STANDARD in Madagascar reached the market.

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In this report :

Find out how we demonstrate progress across the three pillars of PACT, our CSR strategy.
Discover strategic insights, performance data, case studies, testimonials and field examples that reflect the realities of our trading activities and supply chains, and how we manage our operations and sustainability programmes.
Understand why we have chosen to continue this externally audited reporting exercise, although it is no longer required by law, reflecting our commitment to transparency and continuous improvement.