Press Release

Berlin, 30 January 2025 – In a significant step towards achieving its 2050 net zero emissions goal, Nestlé has partnered with Europe's leading digital road freight forwarder, sennder, to decarbonize its logistics network. Over the past three years, this collaboration has successfully reduced over 2,000 tonnes of CO2e by completing more than 3,000 green loads using HVO100, and electric trucks.

This partnership has played a relevant role in Nestlé's plan to decarbonize its logistics network, which includes maximizing transport efficiency, transitioning to advanced transport solutions, and adopting renewable energy sources. Through investing in innovative infrastructure and operations, Nestlé is committed to maintaining momentum towards its sustainability targets.

A significant milestone in the partnership with sennder has been the introduction of electric trucks. In just four months, sennder has delivered over 100 orders and run over 10,000 kilometers with electric trucks for Nestlé’s THOMY product line in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, reducing CO2e emissions by approximately 55 tonnes annually on a single lane. 

Leadership Quotes

Nestlé and sennder have been working together since 2021 to implement the two most scalable green solutions in road freight. One is HVO, which is a renewable diesel that reduces carbon emissions by up to 90 percent. The second are electric trucks, which run with zero tailpipe emissions and significantly reduce carbon emissions on every single transport. The road freight industry is going through a technological transformation. We are here to help our customers adopt electric trucks at scale to enable them to build a future-looking competitive advantage.

Graham Major-Ex, Senior Director of Green Business & eMobility of sennder.

Achieving our net zero emissions goal by 2050 requires significant logistics optimization. Partnering with sennder to implement electric trucks in Germany has been a critical step in ensuring our transport operations are both efficient and sustainable. While improvements in infrastructure and battery technology are ongoing, electric trucks are increasingly viable for short-distance journeys, such as factory-to-distribution center shuttles and customer deliveries. With partners such as sennder, Nestlé is adopting advanced transport solutions at scale, preparing to electrify long-distance transport in the future.

Matthias Fleischer, Vice President Supply Chain at Nestlé Germany.

Logistics Partnership

Together, sennder and Nestlé have achieved cost-effective electric vehicle operations through a combination of innovative strategies. By leveraging sennder’s extensive network, the partners have optimized truck and driver utilization through load consolidation, ensuring greater efficiency across routes. The strategically located overnight depot charging stations, near Nestlé facilities, further reduced energy costs while minimizing downtime. In addition, loading and unloading schedules were carefully aligned with driver hours and EV charging times, maximizing both productivity and cost-efficiency. 

To further reduce emissions, Nestlé is investing in solar-powered warehouses and charging stations equipped with photovoltaic systems and battery storage, ensuring energy efficiency and minimal environmental impact. This collaboration demonstrates a scalable and sustainable solution for advancing electric road freight operations. 

A key enabler of this partnership’s success is sennder’s joint venture with Scania, Juna, which provides carriers with electric trucks through a flexible pay-per-use model. The electric truck operating for Nestlé is leased by Schober Logistics via Juna, demonstrating the model’s scalability and adaptability. By removing upfront costs and guaranteeing capacity utilization through sennder’s platform, Juna simplifies the transition to electric transport for carriers while ensuring commercial viability. This creates new opportunities to deliver more sustainable transport solutions for sennder’s customers, including Nestlé.

Nestlé and sennder’s partnership exemplifies how the two companies leverage advanced green technologies, data-driven solutions, and collaborative approaches, to drive the technological transformation of road logistics.

A case study video on this partnership can be found here.

About sennder 

sennder, a leading digital road freight forwarder in Europe, is offering shippers access to a connected fleet of thousands of trucks. In a traditional industry, sennder is moving fast and focuses on the digitalization and automation of all road logistics processes. sennder deploys over 40,000 trucks across Europe, with access to more than 120,000 vehicles, and has a team of over 1,000 people. By leveraging its proprietary technology, sennder is creating an ecosystem that leads the industry into the 21st century with enhanced transparency, efficiency, and flexibility, as well as advanced green transport solutions. sennder is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors including Baillie Gifford, Accel, HV Capital and Lakestar along with industry experts Poste Italiane and Scania to assure innovation and state of the art offerings.

About Nestlé Germany

Nestlé Germany, based in Frankfurt am Main, has approximately 6,900 employees at 18 locations. The headquarters of Nestlé is in Vevey, where the company was founded over 150 years ago in Switzerland. Nestlé is the world's largest food and beverage company, with operations in 188 countries. 270,000 employees work every day around the globe to unlock the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. Nestlé offers a wide range of products and services for people and pets in all life stages. This includes over 2,000 brands, from global icons like Nescafé, KitKat, or Maggi to innovations in the Plant-Based and Health Science sectors.

About JUNA

Founded in 2023, JUNA is a joint venture between Scania CV AB, a global leader in transport solutions, and sennder Technologies GmbH, Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder. JUNA was created to accelerate the adoption of electric trucks in road logistics by eliminating the traditional barriers for small to medium sized carriers to entry to sustainable transport such as high upfront costs and residual value risks. Leveraging a unique pay-per-use model, JUNA provides carriers with access to premium electric trucks along with guaranteed load volumes through sennder’s digital platform, ensuring both operational efficiency and environmental sustainability. With ambitious plans to deploy 5,000 electric trucks by 2030, JUNA is poised to revolutionize the European logistics industry, aligning with the European Union’s Green Deal goals and setting a new standard for sustainable transportation across the continent.