Wilbur-Ellis

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
While Wilbur-Ellis has activities covering topics within the Food and Agriculture Benchmark’s three dimensions of environment, nutrition and social inclusion, it does not disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics or the outcomes of this process in relation to its sustainability strategy. The company has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While responsibility for Wilbur-Ellis’s sustainability action lies with both its enterprise risk management and its environment, health, safety and security teams, the company has an opportunity to strengthen accountability by assigning this responsibility to its highest governance body and disclosing further information on its decision-making processes and oversight responsibilities. In addition, it can link sustainability objectives and targets to roles and remuneration.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes. As such, it does not provide evidence that it undertakes meaningful stakeholder engagement.

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
The company does not disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions. As such, the company demonstrates a lack of transparency and responsibility regarding its emissions. The company has an opportunity to set targets related to its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and report progress against them.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
Wilbur-Ellis reports that its NUTRIO line of products uses beneficial microbials for soil health, maintaining soil structure and sustaining the growth cycle of plants by keeping nutrition in the soil. However, while the company discloses qualitative evidence on this topic, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that improve soil health and agrobiodiversity, reporting progress against the targets and disclosing quantifiable data on its impact on soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
While the company discloses qualitative evidence that it is helping farmers transition to organic farming, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides and reporting progress against the targets.

Water use
Wilbur-Ellis does not disclose that it is reducing water withdrawals across its operations and supply chain. The company should increase its disclosure on its water withdrawals and consumption.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations through its Brew-to-Moo programme, it has an opportunity to enhance its commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and supply chain and reporting progress against these targets. The company could also disclose quantitative data to demonstrate that it is reducing food loss and waste in its own operations and supply chain.

Availability of healthy foods 
The company does not disclose a commitment or activities to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods. The company could improve its reporting on the topic by providing qualitative evidence of activities that contribute to increasing the production and variety of healthy and nutritious foods and/or improving the nutritional quality of foods.

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods. There is an opportunity for the company to increase its disclosure on the topic.

Workforce nutrition
The company does not disclose sufficient evidence of having any workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour

The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its own operations and supply chain.

Forced labour

The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit forced labour in its own operations and supply chain.

Living wage

The company does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage or requires its suppliers to do the same. Neither has it set targets to do so in the future.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups

The company does not specifically recognise the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers.

Farmer productivity and resilience

The company does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Land rights

The company does not commit to recognising and respecting the legitimate tenure rights related to the ownership and use of land of local communities.

No evidence of policies or commitments related to respect for human rights was found in the public domain. As such, Wilbur-Ellis fails to ensure the protecting of basic human rights in its operations and supply chain.

No evidence of policies or commitments related to key decent work issues was found in the public domain. As such, Wilbur-Ellis does not demonstrate that it provides secure, safe and healthy workplaces, where workers are fairly renumerated and have a meaningful say in decision-making.

No evidence of policies or commitments related to acting ethically was found in the public domain. As such, Wilbur-Ellis demonstrates no transparency on its approach to key ethical business topics, such as personal data protection, tax, bribery and corruption, and lobbying and political engagement.