Boparan Holdings (2 Sisters Food Group)

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

Food loss and waste
Boparan Holdings is a signatory to the Champions 12.3 commitment and has set a target to halve its food waste by 2030 against which it reports yearly. Through partnerships with, for example, food redistribution charity FareShare and retailer Tesco, the company reduces and prevents food loss and waste along its value chain.

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
Boparan Holdings has identified four sustainability pillars: environment, people, economic success and sustainable raw materials. However, 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
Boparan Holdings does not disclose information related to the governance of its sustainability strategy, such as the person, team or committee that holds ultimate responsibility for its implementation.

Stakeholder engagement
While Boparan Holdings states that it engages with stakeholders on its environmental standards, it does not disclose an overview of its key stakeholder groups and the issues raised with them. Further, the company does not disclose its processes for identifying and selecting stakeholders with whom to engage and lacks transparency on how it integrates stakeholder feedback while designing its sustainability strategy.

Animal welfare
The company addresses animal welfare in its livestock procurement policy and animal health and welfare policy. These policies adhere to the Five Freedoms, globally considered as the gold standard in animal welfare. While Boparan Holdings addresses specific welfare issues for chickens, it has an opportunity to also disclose how it addresses specific welfare issues for its other species.

Protein diversification
Although Boparan Holdings has taken the first steps towards diversifying its protein portfolio through offering vegetarian alternatives, it has not set any time-bound targets to increase the production or consumption of alternative proteins such as plant-based protein or cell-based meat.

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystems
In a responsible sourcing policy, Boparan Holdings sets out its commitment to source deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) palm oil and soya. While the company demonstrates that 100% of its palm oil is certified DCF through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, no reporting on the percentage of soya that is DCF was found.

Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
While the company states it aims to be a carbon neutral business, Boparan Holdings does not disclose quantitative reporting on its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions. The company has an opportunity to set targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions and report against these.

Accessibility and affordable of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment and activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of healthy foods for vulnerable groups.

Availability of healthy foods
The company does not provide evidence of improving the nutritional quality of its products and of proportionally increasing the sales of healthy foods.

Food safety
Boparan Holdings demonstrates a commitment to food safety in its operations, with 100% of its processing locations certified to a food safety scheme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative. However, the company does not report on the share of its suppliers that is certified to such a food safety scheme.

Child labour
Boparan Holdings commits to prohibiting child labour in its own operations and requires suppliers to adhere to the same standard. While the company reports that it carries out age verification for a portion of its operations, it has an opportunity to disclose a policy requiring its suppliers to have an age-verification mechanism in place.

Forced labour
For both its own operations and supply chain, Boparan Holdings commits to prohibiting forced labour and states that it will not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict their freedom of movement. The company also commits to respecting workers’ right to freedom of association and collective bargaining and does not interfere with workers seeking to exercise these rights. While the company’s operations are monitored for forced labour, it does not demonstrate that all its suppliers are regularly monitored.

Living wage
The company does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage nor requires its suppliers to do the same. Moreover, no targets related to paying a living wage across the company’s operations or direct suppliers were found.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
While Boparan Holdings discloses a commitment to support the resilience and productivity of farmers, it has an opportunity to disclose evidence of related activities.

Boparan Holdings commits to respecting the ILO core labour rights in its operations and expects its suppliers to do the same. However, no policy commitment to respect the human rights of workers was found. The company provides grievance mechanisms for workers but does not demonstrate it has a mechanism accessible to third parties. While providing evidence of a modern slavery risk assessment process, the company does not disclose how it identifies, assesses and integrates all salient human rights risks in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders whose rights are or may be affected by the company’s activities.

Boparan Holdings commits to prohibiting excessive working hours and expects its suppliers to do the same. The company respects the health and safety of its workers and places health and safety expectations on its suppliers. However, it can strengthen its supplier monitoring and quantitative reporting in this area. Regarding gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company discloses a commitment and provides data on gender pay gaps. However, this data does not include the gender pay gap per employee category, by location. No commitments to or reporting on paying living wages, collective bargaining, and workforce diversity were found.

Boparan Holdings commits to protecting personal data and discloses a privacy statement on its use. The company also has a publicly available global tax strategy but does not disclose its income taxes paid on a country-by-country basis. No policies or commitments on bribery and corruption or lobbying and political engagement were found in the public domain.