GOVERNING GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY Azzurri Central Our Recipe For A Better Future is embedded in our Adrian Vickery, Head of Property Groups’ deliverables. In the past year, our teams have Claudia Candiotto, Head of Responsible Business worked together to engrain our commitments and goals Jane Bon Bernard, People Director in our governance systems, improving accountability Kieran Pitcher, Commercial & Property Director throughout our business’ structure. Lucy La Rana, Head of Quality & Safety Stefan Porter, Purchasing & Supply Chain Director Since creating the Responsible Business department in Azzurri Central in October 2021, our sustainability strategy is being championed by ASK Italian 16 leads across the Group. Each of our brands has set up their own Amita Patel, Head of People sustainability governing bodies. ASK Italian has launched Ask For Better, its own sustainability strategy driven by an internal committee led by Steve Corinne Prior, Marketing Director Holmes, the company’s CEO. Zizzi has integrated sustainability progress Jan Dalton, Operations Director in its purpose roadmap, 昀椀rst launched in Spring 2023 and now part of the Matthew Gray, Finance Director business’ deliverables. And Coco Di Mama continues to enforce decisions and pursue change through the ‘Changemakers’ Group. To improve internal accountability, we set 昀椀nancial bonus links to our Coco di Mama sustainability metrics for key Azzurri Central departments. We introduced Jim Attwood, Managing Director a control system to frequently review KPIs for each brand. We run annual Keyana Mohammadi, Interim Head of Brand environmental, social and governance risk assessments that feed into the Group’s annual risk assessment process reviewing salient issues and assigning suitable short and long-term actions. We have also championed Zizzi cross-working groups to address salient issues, such as human rights. Harry Heeley, Managing Director These governance measures help us keep focused on our Recipe For A Kathryn Turner, Food Development & Food Better Future. We work through challenges together, to ensure that we keep Paul Dunford, People Director moving the needle and challenge ourselves to be better, so that all our Phil Boyd, Operations & Strategic Projects Director businesses can contribute to having a positive impact on people and planet in a way that most re昀氀ects their unique values and identity. SUSTAINABLE DINING REPORT 2023 11
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