Sustainability Plan 2025 4.0

An introduction from our Chair Scott and our CEO Brad

Welcome to 'Working together to create a better tomorrow', the Woolworths Group Sustainability Plan 2025.

If there is one word that sums up our Sustainability Plan 2025, it's 'better'.

Better for our team members, our partners, customers and our suppliers.

Better for the planet that we call home. And better in finding the most ethical ways to do business.

We've been on our sustainability journey for many years now, and the results of our actions are starting to show.

In areas where we've fallen short, we are learning from our experiences and working hard to improve them, because we have more responsibility than ever to get it right.

Our customers want positive change and they are counting on us to make it happen, from eliminating waste to reducing the plastic packaging that pollutes our oceans.

In short, we're all looking to do the right thing.

Our Sustainability Plan 2025 is ambitious, but we're confident we can achieve our goals if we all get on board and lift the bar together. That's what we mean by working together to create a better tomorrow, and tomorrow starts now.

Contents

This plan covers our 5 guiding principles and shows how we turn these into specific goals and detailed commitments that we aim to achieve by 2025.

UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015 define sustainable development priorities and aspirations for the planet. They seek to mobilise global efforts around a common set of goals and targets. We believe that the business community has a role to play in progressing these important issues and we have aligned our goals with the relevant SDGs. Find these throughout this document.

Guiding Principles

Turning guiding principles into goals and commitments

To turn guiding principles into action, we've broken them down into three distinct focus areas: People, Planet and Product.

Each comes with its own set of goals and commitments.

People Planet Product

Building a better tomorrow for our people means demonstrating our care, creating a great place for our teams to work and paving their way to a brighter future. It means letting people be their best self regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability or sexual orientation.

It means supporting our communities, building partnerships and working hand in hand with our suppliers to make sure that workers in our supply chain are treated with respect.

Building a better tomorrow for our planet means repairing and protecting the world we live in for future generations.

It means going further than just limiting negative impacts; it means actively finding ways to create positive benefits.

Building a better tomorrow through our products means evolving the way we do business to embrace circular thinking - which means all waste is a resource.

It means making it easy for our customers to choose products that are healthier, sustainably sourced and responsibly packaged.

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Our sustainability plan on a page

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Goal 1

People Planet Product

People

Overview

Unlocking our full potential through a philosophy of care.

An important part of building a better tomorrow is to invest in the wellbeing and progress of our team so that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed.

We know that people are happier and more fulfilled at work if they can be themselves. We want our team to feel safe and welcome whatever their gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability or sexual orientation.

We will achieve a truly inclusive workplace if everybody embraces our vision, from the newest arrival to our most senior leaders. We value diversity and bringing an inclusive mindset to decision making. This is central to the culture we want to see across our business.

The care doesn't stop at what we can do for our team today. As our retail business moves at speed into a new era of technology and progress, we are determined not to leave anybody behind. We will make sure our teams feel comfortable with change and equip them with new skills so they can excel.

Customer and team safety has always been a primary focus, and this includes mental health. It's just as important as physical health, but often more difficult to spot. We want to create a culture where it's OK for our team to ask for help, and where the workplace is a safe and supportive environment. With the help of our partners we are putting programs in place to help our team to take care of themselves and each other.

Modern slavery is a growing global and systemic issue with the International Labour Organisation estimating 50 million people in situations of modern slavery, up from 40 million in 2016.

Our commitment for people extends beyond our own teams to include every worker in our global supply chain, particularly in respect of their human rights. We will work together with our suppliers to build a rights- respecting culture where modern slavery risks can be identified, managed and mitigated.

Closer to home, we're at the heart of all our communities. We are determined to make a positive impact across Australia and New Zealand by investing in local programs and expanding our work with S.T.A.N.D. to provide relief in times of natural disaster.

Sustainability is important to us and it is key that our partners and suppliers share similar values. It's only by working together through mutually beneficial partnerships that we can achieve our ambitions for a better tomorrow.

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