Cuki Save the Food:

our commitment to a better future.

Food is extremely valuable, which is why we must learn to respect it. Every year, 1.05 billion tonnes of food are wasted worldwide, while 738 million people suffer from hunger (Source: United Nations https://unric.org/en/world-squanders-over-1-billion-meals-a-day/).

These numbers are the starting point for the Cuki Save the Food project, the heart of Cuki Cofresco’s effort to reduce food waste. Launched in 2011 to support Banco Alimentare, the project has become a fundamental part of Cuki’s DNA, becoming a real guide that inspires every business decision, from communication to developing sustainable products.

From Save Bag trays, designed with the Polytechnic University of Turin, to the Save the Food app for managing your freezer, to Cukipedia, the food storage encyclopedia: every tool is designed to educate, innovate, and take real action.

With Cuki Save the Food, fighting waste is not just an idea: it is a daily commitment to a better future.

Cuki and Siticibo

Since 2011, Cuki has been supporting Siticibo, the Food Bank programme that recovers surplus or unsold food from restaurants, supermarkets, and shopping centres, making it available to the most vulnerable groups through over 9,000 charitable organisations in Italy.

Thanks to the aluminium trays and thermal boxes donated each year, the Food Bank can transport food safely and properly.

With Cuki’s support, the Siticibo project has recovered tens of millions of meals to date.

Cuki Save Bag

Cuki Save Bag is Cuki’s doggy bag designed for taking home restaurant leftovers. Its design results from an educational project with students at the Polytechnic University of Turin.

It serves as an excellent tool for customers to give food its true value, and it also helps restaurateurs showcase their sustainable vision.

This anti-waste container promotes responsible consumption and turns the fight against waste into a positive: because those who don’t waste do twice as much good.

Cuki and Food Drive

Cuki supports Banco Alimentare by actively participating in National Food Collection Day, an initiative that each year involves thousands of volunteers and citizens collecting food for those in need.

Cuki is the main sponsor, assisting over 150,000 volunteers across 12,000 supermarkets with the supply of 192,000 bibs and maximising visibility through more than 65,000 posters and 4.9 million flyers.

Thanks to this partnership, approximately 8,000 tonnes of food were collected and distributed to over 1.8 million people in need, supported by 7,600 charities throughout the country.

Cuki for Social Causes

Cuki Cofresco supports associations committed to social causes, to help virtuous local organisations.

Examples include ‘Magazzini OZ’ in Turin, with ties to Casa OZ, an organisation that welcomes children and families suffering the effects of disease and illness, and the ‘Corporate Golden Donor’ project to develop a large-scale environmental and territorial safeguarding project alongside the FAI National Trust of Italy.

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