Business Continuity

apetito is one of Europe's leading suppliers of quality frozen meals, food products and catering solutions. This policy sets out our commitment to effective business continuity arrangements across our UK operations as part of our integrated business sustainability programme.

1.Purpose

Through the adoption of best practice in Business Continuity Management (BCM) apetito will ensure that the core business need to maintain and enhance: service to customers, reputation and business sustainability is achieved.

Disruption of some scale is an inevitable daily part of business operations and our ability to adapt and deal with issues as they arise is key facet of the resilience and strength of the business.

Business continuity management applies where disruptions are more significant, will threaten the continuity of the business and be outside of normal management experience. In these situations our ability to react effectively depends upon prior preparation and planning.

It is important that BCM is embedded as part of the normal management and business sustainability process. Successful adoption of BCM allows a business, through prior identification of issues, to deal with disruptions and succeed by prioritising actions and achieving increased operational resilience.

This policy describes the process that will be established to ensure that apetito is able to respond as effectively as possible to foreseeable disruptions.

2.Definitions:

Business Continuity:

Business continuity is "an holistic management process that identities potential impacts that threaten an organisation and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities'.

Business Continuity Plans:

A collection of procedures and information that are developed compiled and maintained in readiness for use in the event of a significant disruption, an emergency or disaster situation.

Business Continuity Management:

Business Continuity Management provides for the availability of processes and resources to ensure the continued achievement of business crttical objectives.

Business Impact Analysis:

A management level analysis, which identifies the impacts of losing organisational resources. The

BIA measures the effect of resource losses and escalating losses over time to provide senior management with reliable data upon which to base decisions on risk management and continuity management.

Amajor disruptive event:

May be natural (eg flood, hurricane, earthquake, epidemic or pandemic), accidental (eg fire, contamination), commercial (eg loss of supply of critical services) or wilful (eg sabotage, vandalism, arson, terrorism). Associated terms: "major crisis', 'disaster'.

Risk Assessment:

The overall process of risk analysis and risk evaluation.

Stakeholders:

Those people and organisations that may affect, or be affected by, or perceive themselves to be affected by, a decision or activity of apetito.

Essential business functions:

Those business operations defined by risk assessment and impact analysis process that are core

to the maintenance of service to customers, reputation and sustainability

3, Policy

apetito shall:

1. Establish a Business Continuity Plan, or Plans, to ensure business continuity for all essential business functions.

2. Annually review the Risk Assessment including periodic maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis.

3. Periodically update the Business Continuity plan (or plans) to ensure currency of information, and response strategies. The plan must be reviewed for possible updating within 30 days of any major operational or system changes that will have a material effect on the contingency strategy of any business unit.

4. Undertake exercises for training and evaluation purposes of the Business Continuity Plan each year or within 30 days of any major operational or system changes that will have a material effect on the contingency strategy of any business unit.

4. Responsibilities

4.1Health, Safety and Sustainability Manager

The H,S&S Manager shall:

• monitor the implementation and performance of this Policy

• define requirements for management time, resources and business systems to be put in place to bring this Policy into effect

• report to the Executive Board on quarterly basis on the business continuity planning position within the company

• undertake annual review of Policy

• ensure that continuity planning is integrated with other aspects of the business sustainability system

• ensure that the apetito has engaged with stakeholders to determine their needs as part of the implementation of this Policy

• take steps to ensure that a business continuity culture is established within the business

4.2 Senior Managers

Senior Managers must ensure that the key functions, for which they have responsibility, are able

to continue following disruptive events and that arrangements are in place to achieve this. This requires the proactive development, maintenance and devolution of business continuity planning within their areas.

Key tasks:

• Complete a periodic Risk Assessment or more detailed Business Impact Analysis if requested.

• Develop and contribute to the Business Continuity Plan as necessary

• Manage risks in accordance with this policy.

• Ensure that the Business Continuity Plan in their area of influence and control is exercised on schedule.

• encourage the active participation of staff in business continuity issues and ensure that key personnel are able to perform competently during a major disruptive event

4.3 All staff

All staff should contribute to efforts of apetito to plan and implement business continuity arrangements to view enhancing the resilience of the business as a key part of their work role.