We are committed to maintaining high animal welfare standards. In Europe, we have adopted the European Better Chicken Commitment, the leading global standard for chicken welfare. As part of this commitment, we have partnered with the non-profit organisation Compassion in World Farming to agree on a set of targets that we are committed to achieving by 2026. In 2021, Domino’s ANZ partnered with Compassion in World Farming and signed up to the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), a first for the QSR industry in the region. The BCC works to significantly improve the conditions in which broiler chickens are raised and slaughtered. Domino’s ANZ has also joined the SPCA Better Chicken Commitment Working Group in New Zealand enabling us to work with our business partners, animal welfare groups and other retail companies to achieve our goals.

Domino’s ANZ is in the process of creating a company-specific roadmap, which will allow team members to have clear discussions with our business partners about incremental targets to meet the requirements of the Better Chicken Commitment, and to demonstrate our implementation plans to internal and external stakeholders. Currently, 100% of chickens supplied to Domino’s ANZ have free access to clean water and quality feed. None are housed in cages or multi-tier systems.

We have also launched our Domino’s Pork Commitment and continue to make progress. However, our business partners have not yet fully implemented these commitments, and we have only reached 20% of our KPIs in this area.

We will share our roadmap and provide updates on our progress in this area in our FY24 Sustainability Report. DPE has also committed to stop purchasing caged eggs in the European and ANZ markets by 2025. In Europe, our goal is to achieve 100% cage-free products in each European market where we operate. In 2023, we made progress on this goal, though progress in the Benelux region was slowed due to avian influenza issues, which resulted in a shortage of cage-free producers.

We have also made significant progress in the ANZ region. In Australia, we increased our sourcing from the cage-free system from 11.65% in FY22 to 27% in FY23, and from 9% to 22% in New Zealand.

We are currently evaluating other markets in our network, such as Taiwan and Malaysia, to see how we can improve in these regions and plan to share the outcomes with our stakeholders in due course.