Elior Group

Sustainable development strategy
The company reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company is committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and has taken concrete actions towards this goal. Additionally, it provides transparent reporting on its Scope 3 emissions, specifically highlighting a significant reduction of 17%.

Food loss and waste
From 2021 to 2022, the company experienced a measurable decrease in the amount of food loss and waste (FLW) it generated. The company actively shares its FLW reduction targets and consistently reports progress toward these goals. Furthermore, the company works closely with its value chain partners to effectively prevent the generation of FLW.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company showcases its commitment by implementing policies and engaging in various activities aimed at reducing plastic use and adopting sustainable packaging. Moreover, the company transparently discloses quantitative data on both its efforts to reduce plastic usage and its utilization of sustainable packaging materials.

Water withdrawal
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses that it has introduced the Nutri-Score for its catering business and that it uses this nutrient profile system as a tool for making continuous improvements to its food offerings.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has announced that it successfully trialed the Nutri-Score front-of-pack labeling system in France, and subsequently implemented it in all of its school canteens.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a strict policy that prohibits bribery and corruption. These risks are effectively identified through corruption risk mapping and internal audit processes implemented by the company.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a public policy committing to worker health and safety and expects the same commitment from its business partners. It also discloses the percentage of women in its workforce by employee category and publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment. The company has set specific targets to increase female representation: a 50% increase in managerial roles and 30-40% representation in various executive committees by 2025, aiming for 40-60% by 2030. Additionally, half of the company’s board members are women.

Respect human rights
The company provides a clear description of how it identifies human rights risks and impacts within its supply chain. Additionally, it ensures that workers have access to a human rights grievance mechanism.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability; however, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Additionally, while the company states that the board of directors has expertise in CSR, it has an opportunity to 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 disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process and how regularly the assessment is undertaken. Furthermore, while it has some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set intensity-based targets to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, aiming for a 12% decrease in per-meal carbon emissions by 2025. The company reports progress on its intensity-based scope 1 and 2 emissions targets, indicating a 2.1% decrease in 2021-2022 compared to 2019-2020. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether this will lead to absolute emission reductions or if the company has established separate targets to specifically reduce its scope 3 emissions. There is an opportunity for the company to establish scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions targets aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3 (50% reduction by 2030).

Water withdrawal
The company has the opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. It also has the chance to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target. Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

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

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products/menus for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
While the company discloses that 72 of its sites have ISO 22000 certifications, it has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, the company can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds 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 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 could include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with its business partners. It could also establish and disclose a confidential, anonymous channel for stakeholders to report bribery and corruption concerns without fear of reprisal. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to create and disclose a policy on its lobbying and political engagement activities. It could specify in a public policy statement that it does not make political contributions and disclose its lobbying expenditures. Moreover, the company could reveal that it requires third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could disclose its methods for monitoring supplier health and safety performance, as well as disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage. It could also explain how it calculates living wages in different regions and how it encourages its suppliers to pay living wages. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to reveal the gender pay ratio in its workforce by employee category and location.

Respect human rights
The company currently has a policy statement affirming its dedication to upholding human rights, however, there is room for improvement by employing stronger language to transform the statement into a more formal commitment. Specifically, The company can issue a policy statement that explicitly commits to upholding the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) fundamental work rights and requires the same commitment from its suppliers. The company can outline its process for identifying and assessing human rights risks in its operations. While it has described an overview of the assessment process, it could also disclose its most significant human rights issues and the results of its risk assessment. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to reveal a global system for addressing, preventing, or mitigating these key issues.