2019 Food & Beverage Benchmark

"Food and Beverage employees are consistently more positive than other industries about service and quality being a priority, commitment to social responsibility, their own products being better than competitors."

Summary:

The food and beverage benchmark is primarily representative of food, beverage and alcohol production and distribution firms. The employees include a mix of front-office professionals, production and distribution.

Note that this is an emerging benchmark.

Anatomy of the benchmark:

Response rate:

• 81% average response rate across all companies
• Bottom quartile (25th percentile) was 71% participation
• Top quartile (75th percentile) was 94% participation

Sub industries:

• Food & Beverages
• Wine and Spirits
• Food Production

Distribution by sub-region:

• North America: 64%
• Oceania: 21%
• Europe: 11%
• Asia: 2%

Glassdoor ratings:

We have connected the employee feedback data with ratings for each company included in the benchmark to provide the below insights.

• 3.3/5 stars average overall company rating
• 40% average CEO approval
• 60% average recommend to friend

Key Insights and Data for the People Geeks!

How engaged are employees in Food & Beverage?

Insight: Employees in Food & Beverage tend to be more engaged than employees in other regions. Higher engagement scores across Food & Beverage are primarily a function of greater intention to remain at the organization over the longer-term.

Food & Beverage employee engagement scores by percentile

If you are interested in the spread of employee engagement ratings, below are the engagement scores by percentile.

Questions included and excluded:

Engagement Questions Excluded: The following questions did not have enough responses to be included in this generation this year.

• I have been provided an opportunity to see and discuss recent employee survey results
• My manager, or someone else, has communicated some clear actions based on recent employee survey results
• I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results

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