Grupo Arcor

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

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company actively works to reduce both its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and has set time-bound targets to achieve this. Progress against these targets is regularly reported by the company. Additionally, the company is also committed to reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and has established specific time-bound goals for this as well. Progress made towards these scope 3 targets is also reported by the company.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company is actively engaged in initiatives that aim to reduce plastic usage and promote the adoption of sustainable packaging. It takes part in various activities focused on achieving these goals. Additionally, the company is transparent in sharing quantitative data regarding their efforts to reduce plastic usage and their utilization of sustainable packaging solutions.

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The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.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 the reduced amount of sugar, sodium, and saturated fat in its product portfolio.

Food safety
The company discloses that in early 2021, 59.3% of food suppliers were certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses income tax payments for all its tax jurisdictions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers and it discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships.   

The company publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. It also has a public expectation that its business shall not require workers to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime.  
  
The discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group, gender and the workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. The company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It discloses a target to ensure that 50% of their new hires to be women and sets the transversal goal of having 50% of management positions occupied by women by 2025. The company currently has 30% women on the board of directors.

Respect human rights
The company indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability performance but can further link this policy to enhancements in nature-related objectives and social issues. Furthermore, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose whether its highest governance body has specific 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 during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment. However, 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. Furthermore, while the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, water, and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, while the company reports consistently against some targets including climate, it has an opportunity to 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. Similarly, its scope 3 emissions targets also have the potential to be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some evidence of addressing conversion. However, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. While it has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it could cover all high-risk commodities.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report its progress against them. Additionally, the company has a chance to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction in FLW by 2030.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. The company has set a target in 2022 but has not yet reported against it.The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to implement commercial activities aimed at improving the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods, particularly for vulnerable groups. Additionally, the company can establish targets for enhancing the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods through its commercial activities, with a specific focus on vulnerable groups.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses it has developed its nutritional profile system to target improvements and new product developments. However, it has an opportunity to disclose how its nutrient profiling system aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer- facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of products/menus for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company 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.

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.

Child labour
The company has the opportunity to showcase remediation programs when instances of child labor are discovered in its operations. Additionally, it should disclose its policy requirements for suppliers regarding the prohibition of child labor and the utilization of an age verification system. While the company already has a program in place to prevent and eradicate child labor in the fruit and vegetable supply chain, it should also outline its efforts to enhance the capabilities of its suppliers in preventing child labor impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the productivity and sustainability of the farms but it could to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It could also describe its process for identifying bribery and corruption, and indicate the existence of a grievance mechanism through which stakeholders can file related complaints. Further, the company could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. It also has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage, and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Furthermore, it could disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers 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 an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respecting human rights and the fundamental rights at work declared by the ILO in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered such as geographical, economic and social factors, and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.