De Heus

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
The company does not disclose a sustainable development strategy that includes sustainable development objectives and targets, nor an identification and prioritisation process to determine the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company does not disclose the governance structure for the implementation of its sustainable development strategy or targets, such as the person, team or committee that holds ultimate responsibility for its implementation.

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.

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 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystems
The company does not disclose activities aimed at achieving deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) supply chains for its relevant high-risk commodities. It has an opportunity to increase its disclosure on commitments to source its high-risk commodities through recognised certification programmes or by disclosing targets for achieving DCF supply chains.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity, and fertilisers and pesticides use
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that improve soil health and increase agrobiodiversity not that optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations through utilizing residual and side streams from food production processes for animal feed, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and reporting against these targets.

Availability, accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the availability, accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Food safety
While the company discloses compliance with national regulations and/or the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by disclosing the percentages of its own operations that are certified to a food safety scheme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification.

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

Child and forced labour
Although the company has a commitment to prohibiting child and forced labour in its operations, it only encourages its suppliers to follow the same standards; thus, not requiring the prohibition of child and forced labour in its 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 disclose that it specifically recognises the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers.

Although De Heus has a commitment to respect human rights, the company does not have a publicly available policy statement regarding the ILO core labour rights. The company demonstrates a lack of disclosure on how to identify and address its most salient human rights issues. To conclude, no public information was found on accessible grievance mechanisms.

Although the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers, it does not disclose relevant health and safety data nor place health and safety expectations on and monitor the performance of its supply chain partners. No evidence of policies or commitments related to decent work were found in the public domain. As such, De Heus does not demonstrate that it provides workers with fairly renumeration and meaningful say in decision making.

De Heus publicly commits to protecting personal data and has a privacy statement on the use of personal data. There is room for De Heus to improve its disclosure on its anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses with its supply chain partners and stakeholders, as well as to strengthen its policies on lobbying and political engagement. The company does not disclose a global tax strategy and its income tax payments for all its tax jurisdictions.