Our Heritage and Culture
Since 1937, Espersen has been rooted in a strong commitment to Food Safety and Quality. Today, consumers across Europe, North America, and Asia Paci c trust our products for their best practice standards and reliability. We understand that only a strong Food Safety & Quality culture around our values and working across departments ensures our success. All our employees are responsible for maintaining food safety and quality within their areas of work.
Our commitment
We are committed to meeting our customers’ expectations by conforming to their requirements for quality, safety, and legality. We collaborate with our strategic customers and suppliers as partners as we believe in long-term, open, and honest relationships.
We care about our employees and believe in continuous improvement of our processes and technologies with people's education programs and on-boarding schemes. We stay abreast of leading-edge developments and invest in innovative equipment to minimize defects to the lowest possible level.
Our Quality Management
Our Quality Management (QM) team consists of professionals who are committed to our preventative and collaborative way of working. Our approach to Food Safety is risk-based and covers the entire supply chain from raw material sourcing to nished goods.
We follow a preventative HACCP approach that includes quality, allergen, food fraud/adulteration, authenticity and integrity management, and we regularly validate and monitor its effectiveness. Our QM system and procedures are aligned across all production sites, and we operate standardized from product sourcing until our meals reach the nal customers.
We manage our Quality Handbooks centrally on a digital, multilingual platform to support the different languages in the countries where we operate. We are fully prepared to act promptly on any non-conformity that may occur.
Certifcations & Standards
All production sites are certified against GFSI-recognized standards (e.g., BRCGS, IFS), and we comply with specific customer requirements. Our products are certi ed to leading trade standards including MSC, ASC, RSPO, and GlobalG.A.P. We are a member of Sedex and are SMETA certi ed globally. We regularly organize external Food Safety Culture surveys to continuously evaluate and strengthen our safety culture.
Verification and Validation
All products are tested in internal and/or accredited external laboratories using consistent global methods. Complaint investigations ensure root causes are addressed to prevent the same non-conformity from happening again. We have traceability programs, from which we can trace each production lot down- and upwards to all nished products' delivery places, raw materials/ingredients, and packaging materials. We conduct regular internal and external exercises to challenge and improve our system.
In ESPERSEN “we say what we do and we do what we say”