Century Pacific Food

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a public commitment to protecting personal data and prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company demonstrates its commitment to worker health and safety through its public policy statements, which also extend to its business relationships. Furthermore, it provides demographic insights by disclosing age group and gender proportions within its direct operations workforce. Regarding board diversity, the company has achieved 33% female representation among its board of directors.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that commits it to respecting human rights. Additionally, the company provides contact number and email id for reporting grievances. Moreover, it offers the complainant the option to report complaints anonymously or identify themselves.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has 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.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment. However, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how regularly the assessment is undertaken. Furthermore, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to set time-bound targets for reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions and align these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Also, it could report on its progress towards achieving these targets.

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

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on reducing the (prophylactic) use of antibiotics and growth promoting substances. It could also disclose targets to phase out the prophylactic use of antibiotics across all species, geographies and products and report progress against them.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, the company can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, while also reporting progress against this target. Additionally, the company can report on the specific amount of water withdrawn in water-stressed areas. Moreover, the company can engage with its suppliers to jointly work towards reducing water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to implement commercial activities that enhance the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods, particularly for vulnerable groups. Additionally, the company can set a target to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods through its commercial activities, focusing on vulnerable groups.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses that it is working to reduce the sodium content of its high-volume products under the Century Tuna and Argentina Meat brands. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and to set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

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

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

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.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement for its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it has an opportunity to indicate how it is building 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 can enhance its transparency and commitment in various areas. Firstly, it could elaborate on its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks within its operations. Secondly, while emphasizing ethical standards for suppliers, it can explicitly mention the inclusion of anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts. Thirdly, it could clarify the accessibility and anonymity options for stakeholders using its grievance mechanism for bribery and corruption concerns.

Furthermore, the company has opportunities in the realm of political engagement. It should consider formalizing its approach through a policy document and publicly stating its stance on political contributions. To enhance transparency, the company should disclose its lobbying expenditures and emphasize that third-party lobbyists must adhere to its established policies regarding lobbying and political engagement.

Provide and promote decent work
The company can enhance its transparency by disclosing its monitoring methods for supplier health and safety performance. Additionally, it can demonstrate a stronger commitment to fair labor practices by setting time-bound targets for paying a living wage to its employees and suppliers and detailing how it determines living wages in various regions.

Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to publicly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, along with setting specific, time-bound targets in this regard. Lastly, it can provide greater insights into its gender pay equity by disclosing the ratio of women’s remuneration to men’s across different employee categories and significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company can strengthen its commitment to workers’ rights by referencing all ILO fundamental rights at work in its policies, both for its own operations and those of its suppliers. Additionally, the company has room for improvement in disclosing its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific locations and activities, both within its operations and supply chain.

Furthermore, it can enhance transparency by sharing the results of its human rights risk assessment and detailing a global system to address and prevent salient human rights issues. This comprehensive approach would demonstrate a strong commitment to upholding human rights throughout its operations and supply chain.