Key Takeaways
- Sweep and HowGood have announced a partnership to connect HowGood's product-level carbon footprint data with Sweep's enterprise sustainability reporting platform for food and agriculture companies.
- HowGood's database covers more than 12 million product carbon footprints across food and agricultural supply chains, and will be integrated directly into Sweep's platform.
- The integration supports Scope 3 carbon accounting, supplier engagement, and regulatory reporting under frameworks including California's SB 253 and SB 261 and the EU's CSRD.
- The partnership supports three levels of reporting maturity: standard food-specific emissions factors, custom calculations based on company sourcing data, and primary-data calculations built from direct supplier inputs.
- Existing customers of both companies, including Ahold Delhaize, Danone, Ferrero, Bonduelle, and Lactalis, stand to benefit from the combined offering.
HowGood and Sweep Partner to Connect Product Carbon Footprints with Enterprise Sustainability Reporting
HowGood, a product carbon footprint automation company, and Sweep, an AI-powered sustainability intelligence platform, have announced an integration partnership targeting food and agriculture companies navigating increasingly granular emissions reporting requirements. HowGood's database of more than 12 million product carbon footprints will be integrated directly into Sweep's platform, enabling companies to use ingredient- and product-level data for Scope 3 accounting, supplier engagement, and regulatory reporting without manually transferring data between systems.
The announcement comes as food companies face mounting obligations under California's SB 253 and SB 261 climate disclosure laws, as well as CSRD requirements extending to US subsidiaries of European multinationals. For food producers, where a single product can involve dozens of ingredients from multiple suppliers and countries of origin, meeting these standards with generic industry averages is increasingly insufficient.
“Food companies sit on some of the most complex sustainability data in any industry, and too often it stays locked in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, too fragmented to report on with confidence,” said Rachel Delacour, CEO and co-founder of Sweep. “By bringing HowGood's world-class product-level data directly into Sweep, we're giving food and agriculture companies what they've been missing: a single, audit-ready foundation they can use across every framework they report to.”
Three Reporting Maturity Levels and a Combined Customer Network
The partnership supports three levels of emissions reporting maturity: standard food-specific emissions factors, custom calculations based on a company's own product and sourcing data, and primary-data calculations built from direct supplier inputs and agricultural practice data. Food industry customers including Ahold Delhaize, Danone, and Ferrero use HowGood for product carbon footprinting, while Sweep serves enterprise clients including Bonduelle, Lactalis, and Neuhaus, among others.
“Generic industry averages have long been the weakest link in corporate carbon accounting for food companies, introducing uncertainty that keeps companies from being able to bridge the gap from reporting to reduction,” said Alexander Gillet, CEO of HowGood. “By bringing HowGood's granular emissions data directly into Sweep's reporting infrastructure, we're replacing that uncertainty with auditable and actionable numbers that reflect how a company actually sources and manufactures.”
End-to-End Interoperability for Food Sustainability Data
The integration is designed to allow existing HowGood customers to move from product-level carbon footprinting through to full corporate disclosures within a single connected system, without data leaving the platform.
