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Ardo

Ardo 🌱, a world leader in the production and sales of fresh-frozen vegetables, fruit and herbs 🍅🍓🌿, has a strong focus on sustainability 🌍, which is at the heart of its mission and vision. The company strives to create a double positive impact by preserving natural resources and protecting the planet and communities, including the next generations 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💚. Ardo's sustainably produced plant-based offering is a contribution to the global movement towards a healthy, well-balanced plant-based diet 🥦🥕🥬. The products are grown in the open air and frozen locally right after harvest to retain maximum flavour and nutritional value 🌞🧊. To minimise its ecological footprint ♻️, Ardo has set up multiple initiatives, such as optimising water and energy resources, reducing packaging waste, increasing biodiversity on its fields 🌻🌼, and using innovative farming techniques to maximise crop quality while minimising its environmental impact 🌿🌎. The company also applies what it has learned from the organic industry 🌿, resulting in the majority of its conventional crops containing no detectable residues, and its organic production having more than doubled since 2015 📈. Leadership is vital to achieving Ardo's sustainability objectives, and the company's perspective on sustainability seeps into its approach to leadership 👥. The team pursues a common purpose and leverages each other's strengths 💪, firmly believing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts 🌟. Together, Ardo feeds the future 🌱🌍.