Making a healthier lifestyle easier, step by step
As a retailer, producer, and Belgium’s largest private employer, we make healthier choices easier for our customers and employees. We do this through concrete initiatives focused on nutrition and physical, mental, and social well-being.
How does Colruyt Group contribute to a balanced and healthy life?
We are constantly working to develop a healthier product range
We offer our customers a balanced selection of products, tailored as much as possible to each person’s individual needs and preferences.
Together with our suppliers and our own production departments, we are continuously improving the nutritional composition and nutritional value of our own-brand products across all product categories.
Customers who want to choose a healthier option while shopping can rely on the Nutri-Score. The Nutri-Score is a handy guide (rated from A to E) that lets you compare the nutritional values of products within the same product line at a glance. This makes it easier to make informed and balanced dietary choices.
In addition, we see an important role for plant-based proteins. We have reaffirmed our commitment to the Flemish government’s Green Deal protein shift and are focusing even more on plant-based (enriched) products. We’re putting these in the spotlight with Boni Plan’t. With this selection, we’re offering delicious and affordable plant-based options at any time of day.
Through the online pharmacy Newpharma and in our Colruyt stores, we’re making (para)pharmaceutical products more accessible. For example, you’ll find vitamins and dietary supplements, as well as specialised products for first aid or home care. This is how we support people in their daily choices for a healthy lifestyle.
We are committed to guiding people towards a healthier lifestyle
We help our customers and employees adopt a healthier lifestyle by informing, inspiring and guiding them in an accessible and transparent way, backed by scientific research. This way, we give them the tools to make informed choices.
For example, we offer recipes—both online and through brochures and cookery books—with a special focus on a balanced diet. And it’s not just about what you eat. Working out at the gym twice a week. Making time to meditate for your mental well-being. There are so many great ways to work on your health. And whatever step you take towards a healthy life, Colruyt Group is here to help you get started.
At Bio-Planet, healthy living is at the heart of everything we do, every single day. We guide and inspire our customers to make conscious food choices. And we pay special attention, for example, to type 2 diabetes in collaboration with the Diabetes League.
Through the Belgian digital health platform Yoboo, we aim to make a healthier lifestyle achievable for everyone via a personalised guidance programme focused on physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
At our Newpharma pharmacies in Halle, Antwerp, and Liege, pharmacists are on hand to offer advice on preventive health.
For the general public, we offer a diverse range of workshops, lectures, and webinars on health topics through Colruyt Group Academy.
With the services available at Jims, we focus on health in the broadest sense of the word. We develop customised programmes for various target groups, such as Moving Moms or Move for Health.
At Bike Republic, we encourage people to cycle more often. This way, we meet two objectives simultaneously: sustainable transportation and more physical activity.
We provide our employees with a safe and healthy work environment
We’ve been strongly committed to our employees’ health for many years. As an employer, we want our employees to feel good physically, mentally, and socially. We apply our broad perspective on health to the workplace, using a framework that’s as scientifically sound as possible and supported by internal and external specialists. This results in a wide range of initiatives.
- We create a safe and healthy work environment for our employees. We continuously practise proactive risk management, doing everything we can to prevent unhealthy or unsafe situations. These situations may involve machinery, tools, products with hazardous properties, or unhealthy environmental factors.
- A number of internal services provide our employees with advice and support. For example, our team of health and safety advisers who are dedicated to safety. In addition, we have specialists in the field of ergonomics and our crisis response team for traumatic events. Employees who are struggling can reach out to colleagues in our psychosocial support service De Schakel.
- Our group is fully committed to offering a comprehensive range of in-house training and development programmes focused on health and personal growth. In doing so, we take a holistic approach to each person. We cover both physical topics such as exercise techniques, alcohol and drug prevention, and back care; and mental topics such as mental well-being, assertiveness, resilience, communication, and focus. In this way, we create an environment where employees can feel good, grow, and fully develop their talents. Because when people grow, our organisation grows with them.
