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Aeon

Aeon is a retailer operating across several different businesses, with around 30% of its revenue earned from its supermarket activities. More than 90% of its 2,285 supermarkets are based in Japan, with other locations in China, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Aeon is reportedly the 17th largest retailer in the world in terms of revenue, earning around USD 69 billion in 2022. The group employs 520,000 people.

Summary

Aeon ranks 55th overall and 23rd in the Apparel sector. Its best performance is on embedding respect and due diligence. It has an opportunity to improve its performance on remedies and grievance mechanisms.

Aeon is one of the 16 apparel companies that describe how their human rights policies are cascaded down their supply chain and made binding for suppliers. It is one of just 4 apparel companies that disclose how they monitor the implementation of their human rights policies as well as their corrective action process and the number and outcomes of corrective actions.

Aeon is one of the 25 companies that are yet to make their grievance mechanism accessible to those beyond their workforce, including local communities. It has an opportunity to describe its process for remediation. It could also disclose on topics related to board level accountability for human rights, including how it assigns responsibility for human rights management and whether it reviews its business model for human rights risks.

Ranking position: #55 /110
Total score: 17.4 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 1.6 /10	#70
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 7.3 /25	#40
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 2.0 /20	#88
Performance: Practices	#1 3.1 /25	#64
Performance: Responses	#1 3.5 /20	#47

Sector
Apparel	#23

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