Boparan

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

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of processes of animal welfare third-party certifications. It also discloses targets that address animal welfare issues in its supply chain and reports progress against it. Moreover, the targets are applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Ecosystem conversion
The company engages in capacity-building initiatives with suppliers and invests in sustainable sourcing, and it partners with stakeholders in its zero conversion efforts.

Food loss and waste
Between 2021 and 2022, the company demonstrates a decrease in the quantity of food loss and waste (FLW) it generated. This reduction aligns with the company’s FLW reduction targets, which are in line with SDG 12.3 goal of achieving a 50% reduction by 2030. Additionally, the company actively collaborates with its value chain partners to prevent the generation of FLW.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company reveals its public commitment to safeguarding personal data, and discloses a privacy statement that outlines how  personal data is used. Additionally, the company discloses a global tax strategy and identifies an executive-level individual who holds responsibility for overseeing this strategy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. This commitment extends to its business relationships as well. Furthermore, the company publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. This expectation similarly applies to its business relationships. Additionally, the company publicly states that all overtime work must be consensual and be paid at a premium rate.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights and extends this expectation to its business relationships.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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 and to describe its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as report progress against this target.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Food safety
The company has an opportinity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Child labour
The company could provide examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company has in place expectations on the prohibition of child labour for its suppliers, it could disclose related policy requirements including the use of an age verification system for the workers recruited.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company states that it supports its farming partners to achieve sustainable production methods but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could 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.

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 an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy statement that prohibits bribery and corruption. Moreover, it could incorporate anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. In addition, the company could outline a process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts particularly concerning its own operations. While the company has a mechanism in place for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify that this mechanism is open to all stakeholders and that complainants have an option to reveal their identity or submit reports anonymously.

Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to reveal a policy regarding its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It could further specify its non-involvement in making political contributions, accompanied by a disclosure of its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose its methods for monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Additionally, while the company assures payment of at least the minimum wage to its employees, it can enhance this commitment by setting a time-bound target for a living wage. It could also detail how it determines the living wage in its operational regions. Furthermore, although the company specifies wage expectations for suppliers, it has an opportunity to stipulate a requirement for them to provide a living wage. It could also explain how it support suppliers for ensuring such payments

Moreover, despite its ongoing equal opportunity initiatives, the company could solidify its dedication to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a public policy document. It could further set related time-bound targets, and report information including the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
Although the company has adopted the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base code, it has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that explicitly commits to respecting human rights. In addition, the company could detail the process it employs to identify human rights risks and impacts within its own operations. Relatedly, while the company mandates suppliers to do self-assessments, it could also provide an outline of the process it employs to identify human rights risks and impacts throughout its supply chain. The company could also elaborate on its methods of assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.