One Billion More
Healthy Meals
Health & Wellbeing Ambition
Progress Report 2019

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One Billion More Healthy Meals Shared on Dinner Tables around the World
Food matters. It means more than just what is on our plates. We know that what we eat,
where it comes from and who we share it with are important. Food is the foundation fora healthy lifestyle and it’s a way for us to bond, laugh, talk and teach each other how tomake our favorite meals. For farmers, it’s a way to make a living and it has a direct impact on
our planet.

• We are helping consumers to make more informed choices about the meals they cancook with our products – by continuing to be transparent about what is in our products
through online and on pack information, providing recipe inspiration for healthier meals
and rolling out labeling that helps consumers identify any day meals and those that are
more indulgent and best enjoyed as part of a balanced weekly diet.

We are aware of all of this when we make decisions about how we want to contribute today
to build a more positive tomorrow. That is why we shared our global Mars Food Health &Wellbeing Ambition in 2016 to deliver One Billion More Healthy Meals Shared on Dinner
Tables Around the World by 2021.

• Through our best loved brands, we are continuing to celebrate the importance of shareddinnertimes and inspiring people to cook and eat together. In particular, we are teaching
children about nutrition by encouraging parents to involve them in cooking so they canlearn essential skills for life.

Through this Ambition we will grow our business by providing healthier, affordable,
convenient, and tasty foods for people to enjoy; inspire shared dinnertimes around theworld; and support our own Associates’ wellbeing.

• The health and wellbeing of our Mars Food Associates remains one of our key priorities.
All of our sites offer healthy canteen meals and nutritional education, and the majority of ourFood sites globally have kitchens accessible to Associates so they can cook and share meals.

The targets we set for ourselves in 2016 were not easy to achieve, but the right things to do.
We set out to go further than many others with stretching commitments that would raise thebar. I am delighted that our progress has accelerated over the last year against these ambitious
goals and that, in several areas, we will deliver our commitments earlier than we set out to.

These are just the highlights. You can read more about our progress in the rest of this report.
We still have work to do in order to achieve our ambitious targets by 2021, but I know thatthese commitments are the right thing to do for the people that use our products, for our
Associates and for our business.

• Since we launched our Ambition we have delivered an additional 920 million more
healthy meals and we expect to deliver our target of one billion more shared on dinnertables around the world by the end of 2019, one year ahead of target. This would bring
the total number of healthy meals delivered by Mars Food across the world to four billion.

As ever, we are guided by our Purpose: Better Food Today. A Better World Tomorrow. It drives
our commitment to reaching more people in more places with better food. By delivering on
our Health & Wellbeing Ambition, I know that we are living our Purpose every single day.

• We have already exceeded our 2021 target to reduce sodium in our products by anaverage of 20% globally – delivering a 22.3% sodium reduction since 2016.
• Over 77% of our products meet World Health Organization recommendations forcalories, added sugar, sodium, and fats as set out in our Mars Food Nutrition Criteria. We’remaking steady progress towards ensuring 95% of our dinnertime products are withinthese limits by 2021 so they can be enjoyed any day as part of dinner.
• 99% of our ‘any day’ dinnertime portfolio meets WHO recommendations for addedsugar intake, and we are committed to adding more wholegrains, fruits, vegetables andlegumes to our products.

Fiona Dawson
Global President, Mars Food, Multisales and Mars Global Customers© 2019 Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

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Making Our Products Healthier
Healthier FoodFor us, healthier food means ensuring nutrition is never compromised by convenience.
Not only are we focusing on making our existing portfolio healthier but we are also innovatingto create our portfolio of the future to help billions of people lead healthier, happier lives.
We want to help consumers make choices that are better for them and create an environmentthat supports healthier food, in our own business, supply chains and society.
Since we launched our Health & Wellbeing Ambition in 2016, we’ve been working to one
clear ambitious goal – to have one billion more healthy meals shared on dinner tables aroundthe world by 2021.
In 2018, we added 520 million more healthy meals through growth and reformulation, taking
our total of additional healthy meals to approximately 920 million since our 2015 baseline.
With current plans to reformulate our existing portfolio in 2019, we expect to deliver one
billion more healthy meals by the end of this year – well ahead of our 2021 deadline. This willbring the total number of healthy meals provided by Mars Food to four billion.
To help us track our progress against these goals,
we developed the Mars Food Nutrition Criteria
which includes targets for calories, added sugar,
salt and fat content in all of our products. We
adopt the strictest and most widely agreed
upon nutrition recommendations issued by theWorld Health Organization (WHO) and otherleading public health authorities. The Mars
Food Nutrition Criteria sets stretching, industryleading targets to reformulate and enhance
our products to create healthier meals. Today,
77.4% of our portfolio (by sales volume) meets
our criteria for calories, sodium, added sugar
and saturated fat, which is an increase from 72%
last year. We’re working to make sure that by
2021 95% of our products meet our Mars Food
Nutrition Criteria and can be enjoyed any day.

Mars Food Nutrition Criteria
Daily Reference Values:
Mars Food WHO
Targets:
Targets:
Energy2000kcal

2000kcal

Added Sugars

50g

50g

Fat

67g

67g

Saturated Fat

22g

22g

Trans-fatty Acids

2.2g

2.2g

Sodium

2000mg2000mgWhole Grains

48g

n/a

Fruits/Vegetables 400g

n/aLegumesn/a

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Making Our Products Healthier
Nutrition Transparency
Making sure our consumers know and trust what is in the food they share with family
and friends is at the heart of our Health & Wellbeing Ambition. We are committed totransparency through clear nutrition labeling on our packs and information on our brandwebsites. By providing information to consumers about our products, we can help themto make informed choices.
Today 100% of our products meet our commitment to front-of-pack nutrition labelingclearly identifying the amount of calories, sodium, sugar and fats per serving. In somemarkets, we’ve also signed up to labeling initiatives that help consumers interpret thisinformation via colors, symbols or other graphics such as the traffic light system in the UK.
In addition to on-pack labeling, nutritional information is available online for 96% of our
products (by sales volume), flat versus last year.
A critical part of our Health & Wellbeing Ambition was to make it easier for consumers tounderstand the recommendation of how frequently they should consume our products,
using global nutrition guidance from the WHO and other public health authorities as ourguide. All of our products that meet our Mars Food Nutrition Criteria can be enjoyed any day.
The smaller percentage of products that fall outside of this Criteria due to their indulgent
nature (like lasagna) are designed to be enjoyed as part of a balanced weekly diet.
We are continuing to roll out labeling to help consumers understand this difference
between ‘any day’ and ‘balanced weekly’ products. These labels are already on our
DOLMIO™ products in the UK and we are aiming to have this on pack for all DOLMIO™,
UNCLE BEN’S® and MASTERFOODS™ products by 2021 as we update our labels. We know
this can take time so we are also working to provide guidance on product websites, andtoday this information is online for approximately 70% of our portfolio (by sales volume).
While this is flat from last year, ‘any day’ and ‘balanced weekly’ messaging will be part of
the updated websites (including MASTERFOODS™) planned in 2019, bringing us closer to
90% by the end of 2019.
“I am proud that we take a leading holistic approach to healthand wellbeing as a business. While many food companies areworking to make their products healthier and educate consumers
on making the right choices, Mars Food differs in that we lookbeyond our products in isolation and consider the meals our
products help to create. I am thrilled to see on-pack and online
guidance that helps consumers to more easily make healthierchoices when they are planning their dinnertime meals.”
Walter De Man, Global Nutrition and Scientific & Regulatory
Affair Director Mars Food
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Making Our Products Healthier
Reducing sodium in our products
We are delighted that we have already exceeded our target to reduce sodium in our products
by an average of 20% globally by 2021. This is in line with the WHO recommendation that
individuals should not consume more than 2000 mg of sodium a day.
As a result of the reformulation and portfolio renovation in 2018, we have now achieved
an average 22.3% reduction in the sodium of our products. This is equivalent to
reducing 1261 tonnes of salt in the marketplace versus 2015. We are proud of this clear
improvement versus 2017 when we had reduced sodium in our products by an average of
8%. This improvements have been achieved across our markets.

Similarly, in the US we have been transitioning ourportfolio towards lower salt propositions. For example,
we have discontinued UNCLE BEN’S® Country Inn
products which were higher in sodium and introduced
new offerings such as UNCLE BEN’S® dry Jasmine and
SEEDS OF CHANGE™ Ready-to-Heat Jasmine rice earlier
this year which are 0% sodium.
Despite having met our global target, our work isn’t
finished. We remain committed to continuing to make our
products healthier, including exploring further reductions to sodium without compromisingon the taste, quality or affordability of our products, particularly in North America.
Our current sodium progress follows a 25% reduction made between 2007 and 2012.

“As the producer of some of the UK’s most popular dinnertime
brands we have a responsibility to make it easier for people toeat healthy, balanced diets – and that includes reducing theirsalt intake. I’m very proud of the leadership position we’vetaken on sodium reduction that’s helped us meet the 2017
Public Health England targets”
In South Africa, for example, we have reformulated our ROYCO™ soups, gravies and savourysauces to reduce sodium by 3500mg, 1500mg & 800mg respectively. This is equivalent
to reducing salt used in our ROYCO™ factory by 200 tonnes per year. This is in line with
the South African Department of Health’s targets to substantially reduce sodium content.

“It is with great pride that we present this range tothe market. ROYCO™ was one of the first brands totake this proactive step to comply with new sodium
regulations, three months earlier than required.
Not only that, but I am delighted with the quality ofthe product. South Africans now have great tastingand healthier option in creating family favorite meals.”
Craig Luck, R&D Director Mars Food South Africa

Craig Sargeant, General Manager Mars Food UK

Reducing added sugar
In line with the WHO guidance, our Mars Food Nutrition Criteria recommends
that added sugar should not provide more than 10% of an individual’s daily calories.
Today 99% of our ‘any day’ dinnertime portfolio by volume is in line with our reduced
added sugar targets, up from 96% last year.
We have seven products left to reformulate. This is an increase in the number of individual
SKUs from five last year due to the launch of two new products that were developed
and launched before our commitment that any new products must meet our addedsugar targets. However, at a total volume level we are making good progress and with
our reformulation and portfolio simplification roadmap, we are confident that all of our
products will be within the target by 2021.
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Making Our Products HealthierAdding vegetables, wholegrains, and legumes
As well as reducing the amount of salt and added sugar in our products, we are also
working to increase the amount of legumes, wholegrains and servings of fruit andvegetables in our portfolio.
Since 2016, all of our tomato-based cooking sauces include at least one serving of fruitand vegetables per portion. Building on this, we are launching new products that containmore portions of fruit and vegetables per serving such as DOLMIO™ Veggie Goodness in
the UK which contains two of your five a day per serving. The sauce was even voted Productof the Year in 2019.

We are continuing to make progress on
the number of servings of wholegrains
and legumes in our rice products. 37% of
our portfolio now provides at least one
serving which is an increase versus 35%
in 2017. Last year, we launched more new
products that contain wholegrains andlegumes, such as SEEDS OF CHANGE™
and UNCLE BEN’S® Rice and Beans in the
US and relaunching the EBLY ™ brand inFrance with a new range of four grains andlegumes blends (including one organic
SKU). We will continue to develop andinnovate our range as we work towards ourgoal of 50% of our rice and grains products
delivering one serving of wholegrains
and/or legumes per portion by 2021.

“I am very proud
to work on EBLY ™
since we offer
delicious healthy
products. With
the new SKUs wehave launchedthis year, I know
we are making
progressinoffering consumers healthier meals thatare easy to make and delicious”
Aurélie Gatou,
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Making Our Products HealthierUpdating On-Pack and Online Recipes
It’s not just through our own products that we canhelp our consumers to eat a more balanced diet.
We are continuing to provide recipe suggestions
with more vegetables, fruits, lean proteins andwholegrains to inspire consumers to use our
products to create healthier tasty meals.
We’re doing this on-pack, for example with our
new ROYCO™ Masterbrand packaging in South
Africa. As part of the change in packaging,
ROYCO™ has added new recipes and tips to
educate consumers on how to use our products
and replace salt while still providing their family
and friends with delicious healthier meals.
But we are not stopping there. As well as
on-pack recipes, we are also working to provide
healthier mealtime inspiration online. In 2018,as part of our commitment to the ‘Peas Please’
initiative to encourage UK consumers to eat
more vegetables, we have updated our recipeson the Dolmio.co.uk website. Over 70% of ourdinnertime suggestions now including at least
two portions of fruits and vegetables per serving.

“It has beena greatprivilege to
be entrusted
as the partner
for ROYCO™
when they
updated theirpackaging.
We work withmany brands and it is clear that ROYCO™
take their responsibility to educate theconsumer seriously. We were given theopportunity for honest conversationand this has been a great example ofcollaboration and partnership to help
families make healthier choices. We areproud to be associated with the newlook ROYCO™ brand and to have made apositive impact on South Africans’ diet.”
Robert Sertic, Business Technical
Director Fountainhead“People are looking for
inspiration and ideas as
to how they can enjoy
healthier meals withmore vegetables andour new recipe page on
the DOLMIO™ website
provides just that – tasty,
easy healthy meal for thewhole family to enjoy”
Ian Nundy, Marketing Manager Mars Food UK

We are not doing it alone. To promotehealthier meal inspiration, in 2018 EBLY ™
launched a partnership with famous culinary
website 750g to encourage consumers to
try recipes with our new grains blends. This
word-of-mouth campaign received much
positive consumer feedback.

Similarly, Mars Food Norway partnered withretailer NorgesGruppen’s biggest banner Kiwi to
inspire consumers to cook healthy meals using
our UNCLE BEN’S® Ready to Heat Rice and Kiwi’s
protein innovation “Dinner for One”. Through theactivation, consumers were inspired by videos of
healthy, quick and tasty dinners and recipes sharedon the UNCLE BEN’S® Ready to Heat website.

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Inspiring Shared Dinnertimes
We are championing the importance of dinnertime by inspiring people to cook and eat
together. We are also working to teach children basic kitchen skills because we believe it
is important they know how to cook as well as they can read or write.

UNCLE BEN’S BEN’S BEGINNERS®

™

In the US, our UNCLE BEN’S® BEN’S
BEGINNERS™ programme is now in its
eighth year of inspiring families to cook
together. So far, the programme hasreceived over 2,900 contest entries fromfamilies, supported more than 50 schools
and benefitted over 30,000 students
and families through awards totaling$1.25m to date. For 2019, we will continue
UNCLE BEN’S® BEN’S BEGINNERS™ with afocus on encouraging families to cook andshare dinnertime together.

“The UNCLE BEN’S® brand is all about inspiring sharedmeals and spending time together in the kitchen. The BEN’S
BEGINNERS™ program is our way of bringing this mission
to life. It’s our goal to help kids learn the essential life skill of
cooking and to provide convenient products - like our READYRICE™ – and family-friendly recipes to make it easy for parents.”
Ashley Findlay, Senior Brand Manager
UNCLE BEN’S® Mars Food US

Let’s eat with Siphokazi
In South Africa, Let’s eat with Siphokazi is a ROYCO™ brand TV show and social mediagroup aimed at driving awareness and educating consumers on how to make delicious
family favourite meals using ROYCO™. Recipes and tips are shared on how to introduce
healthy meals like cooking with olive oil and replacing salt with ROYCO™ products alone.

Time to Cook
In Belgium, we partnered with retailer Carrefour toco-develop a community initiative that would
support our shared priority of health & nutrition
and inspire families to cook healthy meals
together. ‘Time to Cook’ was activated in-store
by offering consumers a free child’s stool when
they purchased four UNCLE BEN’S® Ready to Heat
products. The stool encourages children to joinin the fun of cooking – with a height boost they are able to help parents prepare ingredientsfor a healthy meal while getting the perfect view of everything being cooked. Following
this success, we are now looking at how we can roll this out with Carrefour elsewhere.
“At Carrefour, one of our key pillars is ‘Act for Food’ andthe Time to Cook initiative plays straight to this, helping topromote a balanced diet for families. We are delighted towork with UNCLE BEN’S®on this initiative which encourages
parents and children to cook together. The kids stool will
motivate families to get started in the kitchen and prepare
and eat healthy meals together.”Baptiste van Outryve, Director PR & Corporate
Communication Carrefour Belgium

SEEDS OF CHANGE™ fundIn the US, the SEEDS OF CHANGE™
give-back program provided three
grants to impact communities with aMars presence – a $500,000 grant is
supporting Chicago Public Schools’ Eat
What You Grow program at 130 schools
and funding summer gardening jobs forhigh school students; a $115,000 grantis supporting sustainable urban farming
via Washington, D.C.’s Building Bridges
Across the River initiative; and a $40,000
grant was awarded to the Greenville(Mississippi) Public School district toestablish sustainable gardening programs.

“The single most important investment we
can make in the future of Chicago is in ourchildren and their education. I am thrilledthat Mars Food is helping to build school
gardens so that students can learn firsthand the importance of healthy eating.”
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Inspiring Shared Dinnertimes
Make Dinnertime Matter™
In Australia, we piloted a Make Dinnertime Matter™ project with children in primaryschools. The four week project aimed to help educate approximately 100 students in Year3 (aged 8-9 years old) on the value of a shared dinnertime and what they can do to makeit easier for the family to cook and eat together. The curriculum incorporated a variety ofdifferent homework that encouraged food related activities.
The Make Dinnertime Matter™ project is the next step in the journey that started witha white paper in 2015 to better understand the benefits of cooking and sharing meals.
MASTERFOODS™ partnered with Flinders University to carry out a needs assessment
which helped us identify the most significant barriers to family dinnertime behaviour
and we worked to design the curriculum to tackle these. We are currently reviewing the
project to see where we take this next.
“It’s critical that children learn to cook early in life and it’s great
to see Make Dinnertime Matter™ project championing thisvaluable life skill. The curriculum is a great combination of inclass and at home activities. It was fun for the children anddelivered against the education department’s key learning
areas so it didn’t add to our workload - it really was a win-win.
The children loved the curriculum and many of them told me
they were eating together more often as a family.”
Jessica Forbes, Teacher at Seaforth Public School in Sydney

Mars Volunteer Programme
All Associates at Mars areencouraged to give back to theirlocal community through theMars Volunteer Programme. In
2018 Mars Food Associates spent
2,348 hours volunteering. In MarsFrance, our Associates went into
local schools and inspired 350
school children about healthy
cooking, encouraging them tospend time in the kitchen andshare dinner with their families.

“Children are amazinglyinterested in knowing
more about food andwell-being, I am very
proud that we could
give them the keys to ahealthier lifestyle as partof our daily job at Mars.”

Sidonie Thebault, Strategic Revenue
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Advancing Associate Health & Wellbeing
None of the progress on our Health & Wellbeing Ambition
could happen without our 2,000+ Associates, which is why
we are committed to putting their wellbeing first. We wantthem to be physically energized, emotionally resilient andmentally focused so they have the energy for what mattersmost – in the office and outside of it.
Today, all of our sites continue to offer healthy canteen
meals that are compliant with the Mars Food Nutrition
Criteria and offer education about nutrition to help
Associates enjoy more balanced meals at work and at home.

Cooking 101
In Mars Food Australia, Associates have been taking part ina cooking and nutrition education program, Cooking 101,
designed and delivered by R&D Associate Emma Satchell.
Cooking 101 is a two hour class created to equip Associateswith fundamental cooking skills. The program was designed
to bring our Food Purpose to life by upskilling Associates
so they can cook more nutritious meals at home for theirfamily and friends, as well as promoting the benefits ofeating together.

In Mars Ireland our Associate chef Paddy Brady has beenat the heart of the business for 20 years, cooking nutritious
meals for Associates every day. Paddy designs weekly
menus to ensure balance and variety in Associates’ dietsand showcases the exciting variety of Mars Food products,
driving Associate awareness and ambassadorship of ourgreat range.
“I know each Associate so well
now that I know what everyone
likes and dislikes. I’m always
conscious to have healthy andvegetarian options available andto save them from themselves I
limit chips to once a week.”
Paddy Brady, Associate Chef
Mars Ireland

Many of our sites go further with activities for Associates
to promote healthy eating, such as hosting workshops on
the benefits of regular and balanced eating in our Central
Europe office. Our UK team has established a ‘help yourself’store cupboard to make it easier to cook a healthy dinner athome after a day at work.

Since the start of the program in June 2016, over 300 factoryand office Associates and completed the two hour class that is thirty two hour cooking sessions! We are currently
exploring how we can replicate this program in our otherMars Food offices including North America and the UK.

“I am proud to be the Mars Be
Well champion for our Goose
Island site. Giving our Associates
the opportunity to focus on theirwellbeing and energy contributes
to their success at Mars, as wellas provides balance to their lives
outside of work.”
Michael Macander, S&F Manager
Mars Food North America
We are making progress on our other goals around Associate
health and wellbeing. Today all but one of our Food sites
have kitchens accessible to Associates so that they can cookand share healthy meals together, flat at 92% with a clear
plan to make this available across all sites by 2021. Similarly,
88% of our sites now have access to fitness facilities (either
on site or subsidized elsewhere), an improvement from77% last year. We continue to test innovative and engaging
programs to make it easier for Associates to stay active whileat work, including treadmill and standing desks. In 2018 our
US team also ran a Mars Be Well program which included a
steps challenge, offering Associates free gym use and an Eat
Better, Move Better program.

“I had a great afternoon attending
Cooking 101. It was really nice tohave the opportunity to cook andshare a meal with my colleagues. I
learnt some great new techniquesand some exciting new recipesthat I can’t wait to try out at home!”
Chelsey Cunard-Naramos,
SRA Compliance Technologist
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