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22 April 2024
AEROPORTI DI ROMA AND TOO GOOD TO GO TEAM UP TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE
Today, on Earth Day, Aeroporti di Roma, part of the Mundys Group, announces the start of its collaboration with Too Good To Go — a social impact company and the world's largest marketplace for surplus food — with the aim of raising awareness among passengers and the airport community about the importance of reducing food waste and educating them on the surplus food recovery projects in place in the food stores at the ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Fiumicino Airport and ‘G.B. Pastine’ Ciampino Airport.
Fiumicino, 22 April 2024 – The partnership — which will see the implementation of the Too Good To Go service in a total of 32 food venues, including Autogrill, Chef Express, Lagardère Travel Retail Italia, MyChef and Venchi — is an important step in combating food waste in the airports, with the goal of reaching 12,000 meals saved and recovered. The estimate is that, by the end of 2024, this partnership will save more than 32 tonnes of CO2 emissions, in addition to 9 million litres of water and 33,000 m2 of land that would have been used to produce the food recovered.
“The strong spirit of cooperation that has always distinguished our relationships with our commercial partners has allowed us to reach this significant milestone,” said Marilena Blasi, Chief Commercial Officer of Aeroporti di Roma. “This is a further sign of our attention and care with regard to passengers and to the airport community that sees the airport as its home and will now enjoy an additional opportunity to help protect the environment by preventing food waste and actively participating in the sustainable values and policies of ADR and its partners.”
“We are proud and excited about the partnership signed with Aeroporti di Roma,” says Mirco Cerisola, Italy Country Director of Too Good To Go. “We are committed every day to making the prevention of food waste a good habit for everyone, everywhere. So we are very pleased to make it possible finally, for everyone setting off from the airports in Rome, to save food that is still good to eat.”
The collaboration will offer all passengers departing from Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino and the entire airport community the opportunity to purchase the Too Good To Go 'Surprise Bags' at a special price from participating stores, and to enjoy the wide selection of excellent products that would otherwise be wasted.
Aeroporti di Roma, a Mundys Group company, manages and develops the Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino airports and carries out other activities related and complementary to airport management. Fiumicino, the first and only airport in Italy with a Skytrax rating of 5 Stars for excellent standards in service quality and recognized during 2024 as the best airport in the world for airport security by Skytrax as well, it has two passenger terminals and is dedicated to business and leisure customers on domestic, international and intercontinental routes; Ciampino is mainly used by low-cost airlines, express-couriers and General Aviation activities. In 2023, Fiumicino and Ciampino airports together reached 44.4 million passengers. Over the past five years, Aeroporti di Roma has received numerous awards, recognitions and quality certificates. The main ones are the AIRPORT SERVICE QUALITY AWARD, awarded by ACI World for the category of European airports with more than 40 million passengers per year for the years 2017 to 2023 for the high level of passenger satisfaction, and the ACI EUROPE BEST AIRPORT AWARD, category of airports with more than 40 million passengers per year, for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023: the award, in this case, rewards the achievement of excellence in several disciplines, including security, operations, infrastructure, community relations, environmental awareness and customer care. Thanks to these achievements, in 2022, ACI World included ADR in the 'Director General's Roll of Excellence', to which only 69 out of more than 18,000 airports worldwide belong for the very high levels of quality offered to their passengers. SKYTRAX, in 2018 awarded ADR the WORLD'S MOST IMPROVED AIRPORT AWARD based on the evaluation of services experienced by passengers at various airports around the world. In 2022, ADR received the BEST AIRPORT STAFF IN EUROPE AWARD from Skytrax for meeting precise parameters of friendliness and efficiency of customer service staff at the air terminal. ADR also distinguished itself in sustainability by receiving the LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation in 2020. In the field of innovation, in 2021, in connection with the SESAR - Single European Sky project, ADR was awarded the ACI EUROPE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AWARD for the airport's investment in the brand new Airport Operation Centre, and the implementation of the innovation model focused on Open Innovation. In 2022, Plug and Play Tech Center, the largest private investment fund in Silicon Valley, presented ADR with the 'Corporate Innovation Award' for its commitment to promoting open innovation initiatives and building an innovative 'airport of the future', Award confirmed for 2023. On 12 February 2024, ADR celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, the company unveiled a new logo that visually reaches upward to symbolise its ongoing commitment to excellence and innovation.
Too Good To Go is a certified B Corp social impact company that helps 150,000 active business partners free up value from surplus food and reduce food waste. Too Good To Go operates the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, active in 17 countries in Europe and North America. The company cooperates with some of the biggest players in the industry, including Carrefour, ALDI, Unilever, Starbucks, SPAR, Costa Coffee, PAUL Group and Biedronka, in the Grocery Retail, Bakery Cafe, Fast Casual, QSR and food business sectors. For more information, visit www.toogoodtogo.it
For press enquiries:
EXTERNAL RELATIONS & SUSTAINABILITY
Press Office: +39 345 1283176 +39 338 6572828 +39 366 6189258
Foreign Press: +39 348 2270950 +39 339 8177825
pressoffice@adr.it
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TEAM LEWIS for Too Good To Go
Alessia Carlozzo | Arianna Cusolito | Michela Loviglio
E-mail: toogoodtogoit@teamlewis.com
Tel: +39 02 36531375
Cell: +39 351 9469056
“The strong spirit of cooperation that has always distinguished our relationships with our commercial partners has allowed us to reach this significant milestone,” said Marilena Blasi, Chief Commercial Officer of Aeroporti di Roma. “This is a further sign of our attention and care with regard to passengers and to the airport community that sees the airport as its home and will now enjoy an additional opportunity to help protect the environment by preventing food waste and actively participating in the sustainable values and policies of ADR and its partners.”
“We are proud and excited about the partnership signed with Aeroporti di Roma,” says Mirco Cerisola, Italy Country Director of Too Good To Go. “We are committed every day to making the prevention of food waste a good habit for everyone, everywhere. So we are very pleased to make it possible finally, for everyone setting off from the airports in Rome, to save food that is still good to eat.”
The collaboration will offer all passengers departing from Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino and the entire airport community the opportunity to purchase the Too Good To Go 'Surprise Bags' at a special price from participating stores, and to enjoy the wide selection of excellent products that would otherwise be wasted.
Aeroporti di Roma, a Mundys Group company, manages and develops the Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino airports and carries out other activities related and complementary to airport management. Fiumicino, the first and only airport in Italy with a Skytrax rating of 5 Stars for excellent standards in service quality and recognized during 2024 as the best airport in the world for airport security by Skytrax as well, it has two passenger terminals and is dedicated to business and leisure customers on domestic, international and intercontinental routes; Ciampino is mainly used by low-cost airlines, express-couriers and General Aviation activities. In 2023, Fiumicino and Ciampino airports together reached 44.4 million passengers. Over the past five years, Aeroporti di Roma has received numerous awards, recognitions and quality certificates. The main ones are the AIRPORT SERVICE QUALITY AWARD, awarded by ACI World for the category of European airports with more than 40 million passengers per year for the years 2017 to 2023 for the high level of passenger satisfaction, and the ACI EUROPE BEST AIRPORT AWARD, category of airports with more than 40 million passengers per year, for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023: the award, in this case, rewards the achievement of excellence in several disciplines, including security, operations, infrastructure, community relations, environmental awareness and customer care. Thanks to these achievements, in 2022, ACI World included ADR in the 'Director General's Roll of Excellence', to which only 69 out of more than 18,000 airports worldwide belong for the very high levels of quality offered to their passengers. SKYTRAX, in 2018 awarded ADR the WORLD'S MOST IMPROVED AIRPORT AWARD based on the evaluation of services experienced by passengers at various airports around the world. In 2022, ADR received the BEST AIRPORT STAFF IN EUROPE AWARD from Skytrax for meeting precise parameters of friendliness and efficiency of customer service staff at the air terminal. ADR also distinguished itself in sustainability by receiving the LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation in 2020. In the field of innovation, in 2021, in connection with the SESAR - Single European Sky project, ADR was awarded the ACI EUROPE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AWARD for the airport's investment in the brand new Airport Operation Centre, and the implementation of the innovation model focused on Open Innovation. In 2022, Plug and Play Tech Center, the largest private investment fund in Silicon Valley, presented ADR with the 'Corporate Innovation Award' for its commitment to promoting open innovation initiatives and building an innovative 'airport of the future', Award confirmed for 2023. On 12 February 2024, ADR celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, the company unveiled a new logo that visually reaches upward to symbolise its ongoing commitment to excellence and innovation.
Too Good To Go is a certified B Corp social impact company that helps 150,000 active business partners free up value from surplus food and reduce food waste. Too Good To Go operates the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, active in 17 countries in Europe and North America. The company cooperates with some of the biggest players in the industry, including Carrefour, ALDI, Unilever, Starbucks, SPAR, Costa Coffee, PAUL Group and Biedronka, in the Grocery Retail, Bakery Cafe, Fast Casual, QSR and food business sectors. For more information, visit www.toogoodtogo.it
For press enquiries:
EXTERNAL RELATIONS & SUSTAINABILITY
Press Office: +39 345 1283176 +39 338 6572828 +39 366 6189258
Foreign Press: +39 348 2270950 +39 339 8177825
pressoffice@adr.it
www.adr.it
TEAM LEWIS for Too Good To Go
Alessia Carlozzo | Arianna Cusolito | Michela Loviglio
E-mail: toogoodtogoit@teamlewis.com
Tel: +39 02 36531375
Cell: +39 351 9469056