Associated British Foods is a diversified group with operations in food, ingredients and retail. The group’s business units include teas, cereals, sugars, and animal feed with such brands such as Twinings, Ryvita, and Blue Dragon. It is also a leading vendor in the baking ingredients market and the owner of the clothing retailer Primark. These diverse businesses expose the group to palm oil and soy in food production, soy in animal feed and leather in apparel. In 2015, for example, it used more than 24,000 metric tons of palm oil and palm oil derivatives in its products. It is also among the top fifteen producers of animal feed in Europe, with a production of over 2.2 million metric tons in 2014.