Corporate Responsibility

We strive for the highest standards of animal welfare in our slaughter processes.

Bell Switzerland has implemented a lighthouse project in Zell: the Bell poultry processing plant is now heating the upper school center in the Lucerne community with waste heat.

The Swiss Soy Network has been campaigning for the responsible cultivation of feed soy for ten years. The specification of sustainability standards has initiated a rethink in the soy industry. As one of the 29 current members of the association, Bell Switzerland is also committed to the sustainable procurement of the coveted beans.

Bell's new "BTSplus" poultry house has been in operation in Zimmerwald since July 2020. The barn is Minergie-A-certified, completely energy-neutral and will one day set new standards in the rearing of broiler chickens.

The Hilcona team has received around 40,000 new colleagues. They have six legs and two wings and have been humming happily around the headquarters in Schaan since this summer.

Since last October, Hilcona has been setting the course for the culinary future at its new competence center in Schaan. iBox is the name of the innovation hub, where six teams from product development, technology and packaging management work closely together. Their common goal: to create exciting new products for the various product categories.

The voluntary federal program for "Particularly animal-friendly housing systems BTS" sets higher animal welfare requirements than the animal welfare legislation. Bell already began to gradually transfer BTS requirements to poultry farms outside Switzerland in 2013. This means that the Swiss minimum standards are not only met abroad, but exceeded.

Süddeutsche Truthahn AG (Sütag) in Ampfing focuses on high-quality and regionally produced turkey meat. The company is the market leader for organic turkey meat in Germany and Sütag produces turkey meat in accordance with the Swiss BTS standard for the Swiss retail giant Coop.

Hubers, one of the pioneers in the organic poultry sector, has been part of the Bell family since 2015. The Austrian company began processing organic chicken more than a quarter of a century ago. Today, it is one of the largest suppliers in Europe. And the trend is rising. This is because customer demand for meat from animal-friendly husbandry continues to grow.

Anyone who receives an award from the Hermann Herzer Foundation has achieved something special in the meat industry. This was the wish of the founder of the foundation, who spent 36 years of his professional life at Bell - including many years as Managing Director. Through his foundation, he continues to support those who are willing to give their best, even after his death.

Sustainability also plays a key role in logistics. The combination of road and rail transport offers great potential for reducing CO2 emissions. Bell has successfully implemented such projects within Switzerland and also in transport traffic between Italy and Germany.

Energy consumption and CO2 emissions can be significantly reduced at the Bell sites in Oensingen and Zell. This is shown by so-called "pinch analyses". Based on their results, measures to improve sustainability can be implemented.

The health service in Zell is responsible for all animal health issues. It works together with advisors on site at the livestock farms and with specialists from other departments. The health service keeps an eye on the production chain from A to Z.

The Bell Food Group places the highest demands on sustainability not only for its own activities. It is also important to the company that its suppliers pull together with it on this issue. All suppliers must meet the minimum requirements defined for the Bell Food Group. For some producers, however, the commitment goes well beyond this.

We all know that we humans should not pull everything we can from the sea. But too few of us still act accordingly. Bell now sources octopus from MSC-certified catches for Coop.