Innocent Drinks sustainability score: 46/100
Better than 72% of Food & Beverage (non-meat)
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
innocent makes smoothies and juices, and its own factory in Rotterdam, the blender, now produces most of its drinks. Fresh Trading Limited, the group's holding company, was incorporated in 1999 under the name Naked Products Ltd. Its accounts name The Coca-Cola Company as its ultimate parent company.
More about Innocent Drinks
The group had an average of 825 employees and £466.1 million turnover in 2024; both are unaudited group figures from Fresh Trading's own annual report.
Founded 1999Head office London, United KingdomStaff ~825 average (2024, unaudited group figure)Revenue ~£466.1M group turnover (2024, unaudited)Website ↗
innocent's footprint was 232,810 tCO2e in 2025, mostly from its supply chain, and BSI verified it. That is up from 228,146 t in 2022, as production moved into its own Rotterdam factory. Solar panels supply about 7% of the factory's electricity; the rest is a renewable grid tariff. Its targets are Scope 1 and 2 to zero by 2030 and Scope 3 down 50% per litre, an intensity target; SBTi validation could not be confirmed. Its £1m Farmer Innovation Fund backs low-carbon farming, but it publishes no water use figures. In 2022 the ASA upheld 26 complaints that its 'Little Drinks, Big Dreams' ads misleadingly implied buying its drinks helped the environment.
Innocent Drinks scores 46/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified November 2026.
That places Innocent Drinks joint 258th of 1,023 companies scored, and 15th of 51 in Food & Beverage (non-meat).
What is Innocent Drinks doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Energy Source (0/10, 4/10).
Where Innocent Drinks lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy isShow at least half its energy is renewable, with a transition plan.
- Its effect on natureMeasure its effect on nature and have it independently verified.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain7/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling0/10No evidence its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature4/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water4/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets4/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Innocent Drinks's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Innocent Drinks's score changed?
Innocent Drinks's score has moved from 51 to 46 across 2 recorded reviews, down 5 points.
- 51 → 46-57 November 2026
Re-scored under the current method (v2.5), from the latest company figures and independent sources.
- Scored 518 February 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Innocent Drinks's score based on?
13 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
31% of them were published by Innocent Drinks itself; the rest come from independent sources.
9 of 13 sources are independent of the company.
“The GHG emission results below for the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 have been independently verified by BSI to ISO 14064-3 requirements.”
“business travel (tCO2e) – 542 tonnes cut.”
“Thousands of solar panels supply about 7% of the site’s electricity, with the rest coming from a renewable tariff on the grid.”
“We also noted that their drinks bottles included non-recycled plastic”
“A whopping 82% of our ingredients are now verified as sustainably sourced against the SAI-FSA standard.”
“they proved that it was possible to grow strawberries using 10-40% less water without affecting the quality.”
“The company aims to achieve a 50% reduction of its scope 3 emissions by 2030, with over half of its emissions coming from its suppliers.”
“The blender supports our science-based targets by reducing emissions through more efficient production.”
“The company did not receive a fine.”
“It is currently working to achieve a target of reducing its emissions by 50% by 2030 on its way to net zero by 2040.”
“10320 - Manufacture of fruit and vegetable juice”
“Coca-Cola-owned smoothie brand Innocent Drinks has been found guilty of misleading advertising”
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How does Innocent Drinks compare with other food & beverage (non-meat) companies?
Where Innocent Drinks sits among food & beverage (non-meat) peers.
Among the 51 major food & beverage (non-meat) brands we've scored, Innocent Drinks sits 15th of 51.
Who scores higher in Food & Beverage (non-meat)?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Innocent Drinks.
CCEP's Scope 1, 2 and 3 targets are SBTi-validated and its emissions data carries EY limited assurance.
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