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Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods (ABF) is a British multinational food ingredients and retailing group operating in 52 countries around the world. The company employs over 132,000 people across its operations and has more than 380 Primark stores, its only apparel brand. In 2022, the company earned USD 22 billion in revenue.

Summary

ABF ranks 48th overall and 21st in the Apparel sector. Its best performance is on remedies and grievance mechanisms. It has an opportunity to improve its disclosure on governance and policy commitments.

ABF is one of 14 apparel companies that map and disclose their direct and indirect suppliers. It also discloses how it works with its suppliers on issues such as living wage, child labour and women’s rights. The company is one of three apparel companies that disclose how they monitor the implementation of the agreed remedy in cases where they have caused or contributed to adverse human rights impacts.

The company has an opportunity to strengthen its formal policy commitments to respect human and labour rights, and to disclose its global process for assessing and mitigating human rights risks linked to its activities and locations of operation. ABF also has an opportunity to monitor and disclose the scope of various human rights issues in its supply chain.

Ranking position: #48 /110
Total score: 21.4 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 1.3 /10	#79
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 4.4 /25	#59
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 6.5 /20	#24
Performance: Practices	#1 5.6 /25	#40
Performance: Responses	#1 3.8 /20	#36

Sector
Apparel	#21

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