Elior Group

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
While the company has key performance indicators covering topics within the Food and Agriculture Benchmark’s three dimensions environment, nutrition and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact, besides its risk assessment disclosures.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has disclosed that responsibility and oversight of sustainable development strategic topics lie within its highest governance body, via its recently installed corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee, which is chaired by the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). The company has also disclosed that its performance on corporate social responsibility topics is linked to its CEO remuneration, such as health and safety, gender equality and carbon footprint. While the company is performing well on this indicator, it is encouraged to extend its remuneration practices to its highest governance body.

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
While the company discloses quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets and reporting against them.

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystems
While the company has commitments to deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) supply chains through policies or certification programmes like RSPO-certifications for palm oil, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by (a) setting targets for achieving DCF supply chains for its relevant high-risk commodities.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations through diagnostic tools and training, along with external initiatives such as Too Good To Go, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and supply chain and reporting against these targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company discloses that it is reducing its plastic use and transitioning to sustainable forms of packaging, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to reduce plastic use and transition to more sustainable forms of packaging and reporting against these targets. While the company discloses qualitative information on the roll-out of its nutrition disclosure commitments, it can improve by also disclosing quantitative data.

Availability of healthy foods
While the company has a commitment to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods, it has an opportunity to undertake activities that contribute to increasing the production, quality and/or variety of healthy and nutritious foods.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has disclosed its commitment to make nutrition information available to its customers by providing simple, readable and understandable information, and has also developed programmes geared at every category of consumer – children, adults and seniors – as well as rolling out the use of Nutri-Score and digital assessment tools.

Responsible marketing
The company does not disclose a responsible marketing policy, nor guidelines specific to marketing to children.

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/certification programme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative.

Child labour and forced labour
The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour and forced labour in its operations and 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.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
The company does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

While Elior Group has disclosed a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts, no policies or commitments related to the respect for human rights were found in the public domain. Thus, the company does not demonstrate, via its disclosures, that the necessary policies and systems to respect human rights, both in its own operations and in its supply chains, are in place.

Elior Group discloses some metrics regarding workforce diversity and gender equality, as well as health and safety. It has made a commitment to gender equality, however, no formal commitment towards the key elements to providing and promoting decent work – living wage and working hours practices, health and safety and collective bargaining – and as such, the company does not disclose providing a safe working place with fair remuneration.

Elior Group has disclosed a public statement on personal data privacy. Furthermore, it has disclosed its commitment regarding anti-corruption and anti-bribery practices. Nevertheless, the company has not disclosed its commitments regarding other key ethical business topics – responsible tax practices, lobbying and political engagement.