The majority of British Sugar’s products begin life as a homegrown sugar beet. We source our beet from local growers in eastern England and it is cultivated on average, 28 miles from our factories. Our sugar travels an average distance of 168 miles from beet to bulk delivery at our UK customers.
Although fleet transport only forms a small part (1%) of our sugar’s carbon footprint, we continue to work in partnership with our hauliers to improve fuel efficiency and reduce our external impacts. Delivery Managers monitor daily performance and make improvements through optimising payloads, the fleet, routes, driver-training and backhauling pallets.