Grupo Comercial Chedraui

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups, including personal attention, e-mail, annual report, regulatory activities, annual filing, quarterly reports and websites.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, along with outcomes of this process. It states that it conducts materiality assessment to identify key material issues, encompassing environmental and social concerns.

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates a reduction of over 4% in water withdrawal in its own operations during fiscal year 2021 compared to the previous fiscal year.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. Additionally, it discloses the proportion of its workforce for each employee category by race or ethnicity. Moreover, it publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management but could assign this to the highest governance body. Moreover, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. It also 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 engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

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 the opportunity to disclose its targets for reducing food loss and waste (FLW) and to report on its progress in achieving these targets. In addition, the company can align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to plastic use reduction and its transition towards sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target.

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

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

Forced labour
The company has the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of how it builds 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.

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
While the company prohibits bribery and corruption, formalising this stance in a public policy document could lend greater weight to the commitment. It could also describe its process for identifying risks and impacts of bribery and corruption in its operations across specific locations or activities. Additionally, the company could strengthen its supplier contracts by including explicit anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses. It also needs to ensure that there is a grievance mechanism that is accessible to all stakeholders.

Furthermore, the company could establish a formal policy for lobbying and political engagement. It could disclose a policy statement that specifies it does not make such contributions, and be more transparent about its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, the company could commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclosing how it determines a living wage for different regions. It could also disclose how it supports its suppliers in paying a living wage. In terms of health and safety, the company could disclose policy statements committing both itself and its suppliers to worker health and safety.

Furthermore, although the company reports progress on its corporate gender strategy, it could set time-bound targets for gender equality and women’s empowerment. It also has an opportunity to disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company already has a publicly available policy statement on human rights, but it could strengthen this by using more formal language that commits to respecting the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. Similarly, it could extend this expectation to its suppliers. Additionally, it could describe its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts both in its own operations and in its supply chain. Moreover, it could elaborate on its process for assessing what it considers to be its most significant human rights issues. It could further disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.