Del Monte Pacific

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

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.

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

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses quantitative evidence on minimising the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company shows its commitment by implementing policies and engaging in activities to reduce plastic usage and transition towards sustainable packaging. Additionally, the company transparently discloses quantitative data regarding its efforts in reducing plastic usage and adopting sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and reports progress against the targets.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses reductions in sugar and sodium by an average of 29% and 27% across multiple product categories, along with information on the nutritional profile of several Del Monte Food Inc. product categories.

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.

Child labour
The company requires suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers.

Forced labour
The company prohibits the payment of any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, and it does not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its supply chain.

Land rights
The company requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company discloses that all the full-time employees at its manufacturing facilities earn above the living wage for their geographies, and in the US, Del Monte Foods meets the living wage in each of its major operating areas.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
When it comes to health and safety, the company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain.
Concerning the workers’ rights, the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the practices of its business relationships in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
In terms of gender equality, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and expecting suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives 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, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to explain how it has responded to key issues raised by each stakeholder group and disclose specific outcomes implemented to respond to key issues for each stakeholder group, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including nutrition, climate and soil health, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has disclosed a reduction target specifically for its cannery location in the Philippines, focusing on quantitative reductions for its scope 1 and 2 emissions of 13%. However, it does not disclose any progress made towards these targets. Additionally, the company has the potential to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and could establish a time-bound target for such reductions. Furthermore, it is advisable for the company to report on the progress it has made in achieving these scope 3 targets. Aligning its scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory would further enhance the company’s efforts in reducing its overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilizers in its production and/or sourcing practices and report progress against it. Moreover, while it discloses a strategy for reducing the use of pesticides, it has an opportunity to make its targets timebound.

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

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has the chance to change its focus from philanthropic to commercial activities in order to enhance the accessibility of nutritious foods, particularly for vulnerable groups. It can also implement commercial activities to improve the affordability of nutritious foods, targeting vulnerable groups. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to set targets that will specifically address the accessibility or affordability of nutritious foods through its commercial activities.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to adopt a nutrient profiling system aligned with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to establish a sales-based target for increasing the percentage of nutritious products.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

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

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

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

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

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 in its operations. Furthermore, it could indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

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. Also, it discloses how it determines a living wage for its major operating areas based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology definition but could describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources too.

Act ethically
When it comes to bribery and corruption, the company could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, although it has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns, it could clearly disclose if this mechanism is to raise bribery and corruption concerns and is accessible to all stakeholders.
In terms of lobbying and political engagement, while the company outlines its approach to political engagement in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its lobbying approach and specify that it does not make political contributions in a policy. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
When it comes to health and safety, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.
Concerning a living wage, while the company discloses it pays a living wage for full-time employees at manufacturing facilities, it has an opportunity to expand the commitment to all workers. Similarly, although the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it could add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.
In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment along with a time-bound targets. Furthermore, it could disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.
Furthermore, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and supply chain. Additionally, although the company conducts an human rights impact assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, it could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.