Our Environment

Banner people are our most valuable asset. In our opinion, thriving colleagues make for a great working environment and a fantastic customer experience, so it’s in our interests to continually improve. Providing the right working conditions to ensure wellbeing and engagement is underpinned by a culture of safety, optimised career planning and access to the right training and development. Furthermore, our ethos is to encourage a workplace of support, respect and tolerance helping us to retain and attract the right people.  

Our Themes

Optimised Career

Planning

Enhanced Employee Wellbeing and Engagement

Protect the Natural Environment

Our People

Wellbeing & Workplace: What we’re doing

Personally and professionally, the events of the last couple of years have placed unforeseen challenges on our business and our employees. As we move into a phase of post Covid and Brexit recovery, we want to ensure that not everything reverts back to how it was, but to take positives and retain them, shaping a safe and engaging workplace culture where employees know their wellbeing is paramount. Each of Our People themes is kept on track by a number of targets and KPI’s, managed through initiatives led by Human Resources and our leadership team. We look forward to updating with news of developments across our workplace

DIVERSITY AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

It is our people that make us successful and so we are committed to making Banner an inclusive workplace. We encourage a diverse culture, in which we value our employees for being themselves, and the excellent contributions they make to our business, no matter their age, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, race, nationality or religion. 

At Banner, we expect our employees to respect one another and treat their colleagues, and others they come in to contact with, as they would wish to be treated themselves. As an evo company, we are proud to be a ‘Disability Confident’ accredited employer. We have a strong CSR and ESG ethos which is reflected in our company values and the work we do.

Procured Plastic Free

Plastic has received significant bad press and there is a raft of new legislation around it, but not all plastics are bad. Plastic serves many purposes and when designed for reuse or recycling, provides excellent materials for the circular economy, but currently too much of it ends up in incineration waste streams, especially from businesses. This is why at Banner, we are taking a stance to remove ‘added’ plastics within our operations. We are scoping suitable alternatives wherever possible and of course working with our suppliers to eliminate unnecessary plastic from packaging around their products.

Void Fill

As part of our aim to reduce single-use plastics by 30% before 2020, Banner has introduced eco-friendly packages throughout its warehouses. The new packaging fill of recycled cardboard is used for small pick parcels, of which we deliver 6,000 a week.