What: El Corte Inglés is extending its 2025-2030 Sustainability Plan from waste and circularity into product sourcing, with quantified goals for organic food, raw-material traceability and certified sustainable fishing.

Why it is important: Quantified targets — 30% organic in Nutrición y Bienestar, 25% in baby products, +3% MSC/ASC-certified fish — give members a concrete benchmark for how far product-level sustainability commitments can go in food retail.

El Corte Inglés is incorporating environmental and social criteria into its general-consumption offer — food, personal care and home — under its 2025-2030 Sustainability Plan. The company has set measurable goals for organic food: at least 30% of Nutrición y Bienestar references and 25% of baby products are to carry organic certification, building on an existing range of certified fresh produce, dairy, oils and infant food.

On traceability, El Corte Inglés markets private-label products with 100% Spanish origin and is developing due-diligence mechanisms to trace raw materials including coffee, cocoa, soy, wood and cattle. Local sourcing is framed as both a support to regional producers and a way to cut transport-related emissions.

For fish, the retailer — the first Spanish distributor to hold MSC and ASC chain-of-custody certification for fresh fish, now present at over 180 counters — aims to raise MSC/ASC-certified fresh fish supply by at least 3%, keep certified aquaculture above 60% of the total, and extend certification to frozen fish, canned goods and other seafood products.

In home and personal care, the group is expanding its range of cellulose and wood-based products from responsibly managed forests, certified FSC and PEFC, alongside circular-economy programmes for textile recycling and refurbished goods.

IADS Notes: These sustainability targets build on a broader pattern of circular-economy execution at El Corte Inglés. Control Publicidad (August 2026) reported that the group had already achieved 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging in its food areas, cut plastic packaging use by 8.9% versus 2024, and raised recycled content to 33.5%, alongside a textile-collection partnership with Moda re- that gathered more than 630 tonnes of material. A Press Release (July 2026) confirmed the completion of the group's Zero Waste road map, with AENOR certification across all department stores, food formats, outlets and logistics platforms in Spain and Portugal, recovering more than 100,000 tonnes of waste and avoiding over 61,000 tonnes of CO₂e emissions. Read together, the traceability and certified-sourcing targets described here extend that operating model upstream, from waste and packaging management into raw-material origin and supply-chain governance.

El Corte Inglés expands its commitment to sustainable, local and traceable products