Sustainability, how about that? Heard it before? It’s an important part of every company, but most companies just talk the talk. We walk the walk. A badge that says “Sustainability” on a webpage doesn’t cut it. Not by far. We, on the other hand, try to make the world a better place in any way we can. Not that we have to, we choose to.
Making candy is an energy consuming process. We see it as our duty to make the whole process as efficient as possible. Thanks to environmental investments in our factory we have reduced emissions of GHG with 1500 ton per year. Our ingredients come from suppliers with documented high quality products. Both the logistics and production chain is important to sustain a great world. To us at least.
All of our foam products are completely free from gelatines and other animal additives. We use potato protein instead of gelatine. The majority of our jelly candy are also free from gelatine. All of our candy is of course free from AZO-colors and all sugar confectionary and most of the chocolate is free from palm oil. We simply want as many as possible to be able to enjoy our great treats.
All of our bagged candy are Fairtrade certified, which involves a lot of positive things. It basically means that you contribute to make life easier for everyone that work to make better and tastier BUBS candy. In other words, Fairtrade is a continues process to free the world of poverty and injustice in general.
We use cornstarch in our casting molds. What does that mean? Well, it means that the cast of different shapes of candy is pressed on to flat beds of flour. Now, what’s left in the flour is perfect holes where our machines pour down the batter. Once hardened, we can cast new candy in the same flour. Pretty smart, right? Of course it is!
At BUBS we have a classic (and very Swedish) mindset regarding eating candy and general sugar consumption – do it “lagom” (in moderation). Don’t eat 7 kg of candy at once, brush your teeth, floss and exercise as much as possible. A few pieces of candy won’t hurt you. Like cheeseburgers need cheese, candy need sugar. Like football need quarterbacks, candy need sugar.
Almost everyone has been a child, we know that for a fact. Many of the employees at BUBS even have children of their own. That’s why it is very important to us to ensure that children’s rights cannot be compromised. Never ever. We are proud to say that we sponsor Sweden’s largest helpline for children, BRIS. And we sponsor various other youth centers and sports happenings as well. Because we can.
Our walls are filled with diplomas and the best one by far, except for a Shot Put diploma from 1972, is the one we received for our environmental work in our county (Jönköping county – google it). We have been certified for loving nature for a long time and we have the papers to show it. These type of diplomas are issued from Sweden’s environment standardisation base (The Swedish Environmental Base).
BUBS is a proud sponsor of the JU Solar Team. What’s that? The JU Solar Team consists of 25 students from Jönköping University. Together, they have built a solar-powered car, called Solveig (it’s more catchy in Swedish). The team and the car are competing in the world’s biggest solar-power car race – the BridgeStone World Solar Challenge. How come we are supporting them? We like renewable energy, sunshine and the town of Jönköping.
