Grupo Bimbo

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

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. Furthermore, it has established group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

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

Food loss and waste
Between 2021 and 2022, there was a quantitative decrease in the amount of FLW generated by the company. It is noteworthy that the company discloses its FLW reduction targets and provides reports on the progress made towards achieving these targets. These FLW reduction targets are in line with SDG 12.3, aiming for a 50% reduction by 2030. Additionally, the company actively collaborates with its value chain partners to prevent the generation of FLW.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates its commitment to reducing plastic use and transitioning towards sustainable packaging by actively participating in related activities. Additionally, the company discloses quantitative data regarding both its efforts to reduce plastic use and its utilization of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company promotes systems of regenerative agriculture that improve soil health. Moreover, it discloses its target to use regenerative agriculture practices on 200k hectares by 2030 and to have 100% of its main ingredients coming from land grown with regenerative agriculture practices by 2050.

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The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides transparency regarding its portfolio sales, including a breakdown by product category, complying with Health Star Rating scores. Additionally, the company discloses the percentage of Daily Consumption products that adhere to the company’s internal guidelines for saturated fat, trans fat, added sugar, sodium, whole grains, etc. The company further discloses that it has incorporated the Health Star Rating System standards to provide greater transparency on improvements in the nutritional quality of its product portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Health Star Rating and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA) front-of-pack labelling systems.

Child labour
The company verifies the age of workers recruited in its own operations.

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. The company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy statement, and specifies that it does not make political contributions.

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, as well as a statement expecting its business relationships to do the same. Additionally, it discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers.

The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and gender, as well as the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. Furthermore, it publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and discloses its time-bound targets to achieve 30% women in leadership positions by 2025 and 40% female representation in leadership positions by 2030.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Additionally, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics along with a biography of the board explaining its competences.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has a policy for how it relates with its trade associations but can further disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Moreover, it has an opportunity to report (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 and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company reports consistently against some targets including soil health, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and to 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/or 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. While it has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it could cover all high-risk commodities.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. Additionally, while the company currently discloses reduction targets related to water consumption, absolute water use, and water intensity, it has yet to disclose a target specifically aimed at reducing water withdrawal across its own operations, and reporting progress against it. Furthermore, the company also has an opportunity to engage with suppliers in order to reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has the opportunity to implement commercial activities that enhance the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods, particularly for vulnerable groups. Additionally, it can establish targets aimed at improving the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods for vulnerable groups through its commercial activities.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has the opportunity to set a sales-based target in order to increase the percentage of more nutritious products, as per the Health Star Rating system.

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 95.71% 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. Additionally, 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 healthier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines).

Child labour
The company could provide examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company has in place expectations on the prohibition of child labour and on the use of an age verification system for its suppliers, it could translated them into policy requirements.

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

Forced labour
Although the company does not allow suppliers to retain immigrants and foreign workers’ personal documents, it could disclose related commmitments for all workers in the supply chain and for its operations. Moreover, it has an opportunity to prohibit the use of recruitment fees for its value chain and to 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 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 disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Additionally, while the company discloses its target to pay more than local minimum wages in all operations by 2025, it has an opportunity to set and disclose a time-bound target to pay all worker a living wage, disclose how it determines what a living wage is for the regions where it operates, and support the payment of living wages by its suppliers. Furthermore, the company could enhance the representation of women on its board (currently standing at 27%).

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 – such as the right to not be subjected to forced labour, and the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining – using stronger language to turn statements into a formal commitment. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in its own operations and its supply chain, as well as describe how it assesses and identifies what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, and what global system is in place to act on, prevent or mitigate said issues.