Cereal innovator Silvery Tweed Cereals has unveiled its 2025 sustainability report, revealing a 35% reduction in total net emissions across the business.
The Berwick-upon-Tweed-based business has worked in partnership with environmental consultants, Beyondly, to measure its carbon footprint, produce a thorough energy report, and identify areas for improvement.
The first report in 2024 provided an emissions baseline across the company’s scope 1 and 2 activities. Scope 1 covers emissions from activities owned or controlled by an organisation. Scope 2 reflects indirect emissions released into the atmosphere as a result of an organisation’s consumption of purchased energy.
The 2024 report highlighted the potential to save 272 tonnes of carbon through a range of energy-saving measures. After discovering that electricity was the most significant contributor to emissions, Silvery Tweed switched to buying energy from 100% renewable sources. This has contributed significantly to a 35% reduction in emissions, recorded in the company’s 2025 report published this month.
Silvery Tweed Cereals managing director, Bob Gladstone, said, “As a business rooted in agriculture and food production, we have a responsibility to operate sustainably and protect the environment we all depend on. From farm to factory, every decision we make must balance the needs of today with the well-being of future generations. Sustainability isn’t just a goal for our business, it’s a commitment to our customers, our community and the planet.”
Bob continued, “Although our business is below the carbon reporting threshold, carbon management has long been a priority for us, and we have taken actions and made decisions over the years to help make our business operations more environmentally sustainable.
He says the team will continue to act on the recommendations outlined in the annual energy report: “We have opted against carbon offsetting and instead decided to invest the money we would have spent on carbon credits into making our operations more energy efficient.
“Following the 2025 report, the business identified an opportunity to upgrade the compressed air provision throughout our production facilities, and as a result of our investment, we expect this to have a positive impact on further reducing our carbon emissions going forward.”
A leading supplier to the UK breakfast cereal, bread and bakery markets, Silvery Tweed Cereals employs more than 70 people, cleaning and processing grain from growers based largely in the Borders area within a 40-mile radius of its Berwick-upon-Tweed base, as well as growing its own grain at The Mead farm.