Groupe Casino

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company provides evidence of linking performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its stakeholder engagement covers nature, including biodiversity, nutrition and social issues.

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 is committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and has set a time-bound targets. Additionally, the company regularly reports on its progress towards achieving these targets. It has also established a time-bound target for its scope 3 emissions reduction.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company works with suppliers to prevent food waste through various strategies. For instance, they focus on extending product sell-by dates without increasing health risks, removing best-by dates on certain categories of products, redistributing misshapen or non-standard products in local channels, as well as processing waste food into new products (e.g. turning avocados into guacamole, apples into apple juice, etc.).

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

Sustainable fishing and aquaculture
The company demonstrates a strong dedication to sustainable fishing and aquaculture by providing qualitative evidence. This is achieved through adhering to environmental sourcing criteria in order to ensure sustainability.

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

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Nutri-score front-of-pack labelling system.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education programme and workplace breastfeeding support for its employees.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses that in South America, 89% of the fruit and vegetables marketed under Grupo Éxito banners were grown in Colombia in 2021, of which more than 86% were sourced locally and directly from small farmers. Further, it discloses how it supported farmers and suppliers in the transition to an alternative farming method when it stopped selling eggs from caged hens, by leveraging multi-year contracts to better assist them in their investment efforts.

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.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also identifies bribery and corruption risks by means of a specific CSR risk identification campaign and with tools jointly prepared by the group risks and compliance department and the group CSR department. Furthermore, the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers and a public expectation that its business relationships shall not require workers to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. It also discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and that it has been a WEP’s signatory since 29 June 2016. Additionally, it discloses its time-bound target of increasing women representation in management to 45% by 2025 and that the percentage of women on the board is 53.84%.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO core labour rights, and expecting suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights. It also describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and supply chain, and assessing its human rights risks; and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. In addition, it discloses its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. Lastly, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company 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, 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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

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

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, set targets, and align these with a 1.5-degree trajectory, and report progress against these targets.

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.

Ecosystem conversion
While the company has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, certification models are not specified so there is no guarantee that it is DCF-aligned.

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 align 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.

Sustainable fishing and aquaculture
While the company demonstrates a commitment to sustainable fishing and aquaculture, it could further enhance its approach by presenting quantitative evidence of the progress it has made in this area. One way to do this is by setting specific targets for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture across its entire portfolio and regularly reporting on the progress made towards achieving these targets.

Water withdrawal
The company has the opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and to report on the progress made towards this target. Additionally, the company can report on the amount of water withdrawn in water-stressed areas for its own operations. Furthermore, the company has the chance to engage with its suppliers in order to reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides examples of reformulated products. 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 set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

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

Food safety
While the company discloses that 90% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme, it has an opportunity to extend the certifications to 100% of its own operations. Furthermore, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to provide evidence of marketing activities to promote heathier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines). Moreover, it can disclose a responsible marketing policy specifically tailored to children that is aligned with international codes and guidelines and applicable across all media channels.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company conducts an audit campaign on child labour. However, it has an opportunity to disclose practical examples of how it enables children to attend education or to improve working conditions for young workers. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it has an opportunity to require them to have an age-verification system in place. While the company discloses an audit system for its suppliers on child labour, it has an opportunity to disclose how it builds suppliers’ capacity to prevent and address child labour.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
For its operations, the company has an opportunity to prohibit the use of recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, retaining workers’ personal documents or restricting workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
The company is not committed to respecting ownership and the proper utilization of land, natural resources, and related legitimate tenure rights in accordance with the relevant section(s) of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) or the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards. Additionally, the company fails to enforce a requirement for its business partners to establish a procedure that identifies legitimate tenure rights holders, with special consideration for vulnerable or marginalized individuals, and to engage in negotiations with them to ensure fair compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to disclose 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
While the company has a mechanism for workers and stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it is unclear if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders, not only workers, to make reports without fear of reprisals. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to have a public policy setting out its lobbying approach and expenditures, and that it does not make political contributions. The company could also disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could disclose a policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers and how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. While the company discloses that it pays minimum wage to its employees and is committed to offering fair and competitive compensation, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target to do so, and disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Furthermore, while 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. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to disclose 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.