Auchan

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the engagement frequencies and channels it uses to engage with stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses its target to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions of its stores by 46% by 2030 as well as scope 3 emissions by 25% by 2030. Furthermore, these targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of conducting animal welfare third-party certifications or third-party audits for its fish food self-service segment.

Food loss and waste
The company discloses its FLW reduction targets in line with SDG 12.3 and regularly reports progress towards them. Furthermore, it discloses various collaborations with its value chain partners to combat FLW. For example, Auchan Retail France joined the Consumption Dates Pact which includes ten commitments that involve rescuing food products whose best-before dates have expired, thus preventing FLW from occurring.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitments and activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. Moreover, it reports quantitative reductions in the weight of the plastics used in the packaging of its own-brand products in the EU and an increase in the percentage of reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging of its own-brand products.

Water withdrawal
The company discloses quantitative reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations in 2022 compared to the previous year.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company shares evidence of its efforts to reformulate its own-brand products in Spain, eliminating 5.3 tonnes of saturated fat and 1.8 tonnes of sugar. The company is encouraged to disclose additional information about its ongoing efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat and increase fruit, vegetables, legumes and whole grains across its global portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses the percentage of products/menus and markets for which it has provided nutrition information on key relevant nutrients and portion- or serving-based information. Additionally, it discloses that it has adopted the Nutri-score front-of-pack labeling system.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company focuses on cultivating long-term partnerships with producers. It actively works on enhancing the supply of local products through collaborations with small producers. All subsidiaries have adjusted their operations to accommodate the needs of these producers, including simplifying their dealings, save money and time on product referencing and reduce production-related costs. Further, it discloses that its French subsidiary supports small producers with the launch of the “Auchan Solidarity to support our producers” brand which meets four commitments, including fair compensation for farmers and a guaranteed three-year partnership.

Act ethically
The company has a public commitment to protecting personal data and a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. Furthermore, the company identifies bribery and corruption risks by means of risk mapping, which was established on the basis of 600 interviews conducted with employee was, radically overhauled in 2020.
Also, it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Additionally, the company specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Respect human rights
The company describes the process of identifying human rights related risks and impacts in its own operations which included reviewing the previous risk mapping and the company’s supplier base, a study of its products and services and in-house interviews. Furthermore, it describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company publicly discloses the results of its human rights risk assessments.
Additionally, it has a global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. Lastly, its human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to climate but can further link this policy to enhancements in nature-related objectives and social issues. Moreover, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose whether its highest governance body has specific expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to report progress against its Scope 1, 2 and 3 targets as well as related quantitative reductions.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to make the animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to set a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal within its own operations, and subsequently report on the progress made towards achieving this target. Additionally, it could disclose the amount of water it withdraws specifically in water-stressed areas and how it collaborates with suppliers on reducing water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to adopt a nutrient profiling system that aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to showcase that all of its operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or another well-regarded industry-specific certification program. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of its food suppliers that hold a certification from a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. It also adheres to the AMFORI BSCI initiative and prohibits its suppliers from using child labour. However, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available policy stating that it does not intervene in the political or religious sphere of the countries in which it operates, and maintains a stance of strict neutrality, however, it could disclose a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach. Also, it could that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has a health and safety policy for its own operations and supply chain, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to show a commitment to health and safety. Furthermore, while it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships, it has an opportunity to disclose the ways in which it does so. Moreover, it could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage and how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Additionally, it could describe how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.
The company states that it promotes equal opportunity for all and does not discriminate on the basis of gender and it also publishes its ‘Gender Equality Index’ every year. However, it could explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Furthermore, it could disclose time-bound targets on the latter. It has an opportunity to disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO’s fundamental rights at work as well as expect its business relationships to do so. However, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment.