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Holcim

Holcim is a multinational company founded in 1912 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. The company is one of the largest producers of construction materials, specialising in cement, aggregates, ready-mix concrete and solutions and products. After the merger with Lafarge, the Holcim brand was retained. It has a team of around 70,000 employees across 70 countries. In 2022, it made CHF 28.9 billion in net sales.

Summary

Holcim ranks 28th overall and 18th in the Extractives sector. The company has improved its sector ranking by 9 places since 2019.

Since its last assessment, Holcim has disclosed how it assigns board and senior level responsibility for human rights within the company. It has also improved its disclosure on how it communicates its human rights policies to business partners and the actions it takes to mitigate its salient human rights risks.

The company has an opportunity to disclose the process and outcomes of its grievance mechanism, including the timeframe for addressing complaints, how complaints are escalated and dealt with, and the approach to providing remedy for adverse impacts. It could also disclose how it monitors the implementation of its human rights policies and its corrective action process for non-compliance.

Ranking position: #28 /110
Total score: 32.0 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 3.6 /10	#26
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 13.2 /25	#14
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 4.5 /20	#45
Performance: Practices	#1 6.9 /25	#29
Performance: Responses	#1 3.8 /20	#36

Sector
Extractives	#18

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This company is part of the SDG2000, the 2,000 most influential companies

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