Grupo Lala

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of business organisation associations of which it is a member. The list covers all jurisdictions in which it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its engagement activities cover nature, social, and nutrition areas.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. In Mexico, its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions were 518,406 tCO₂e in 2022, compared to 540,708 tCO₂e in 2021. Meanwhile, in Brazil, the company reduced its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from 68,000 tCO₂e in 2021 to 62,000 tCO₂e in 2022.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company provides examples of reducing plastic in its packaging and transitioning to more sustainable forms of packaging. For instance, it reduced the weight of the material used for its yogurt packaging, thus cutting the annual waste generated by this product by 28.5%.

Water withdrawal
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. It discloses that the total water extraction in 2022 from all water-stressed regions was 5,532.33 megalitres.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company reports on the volume of products with no added sugar, fortified with vitamins, and low-fat in Mexico and Brazil. In 2022, the company produced 2,865 MKL of products with no added sugar, fortified with vitamins, and low in fat in Mexico. Meanwhile, in Brazil, the figure for 2022 is 19.1 MKL.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme. Additionally, it discloses that 93% of food suppliers are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition-focused health check programme for its employees. It runs campaigns promoting health through self-care and disease prevention under the ‘It’s Time to Take Care of Yourself’ initiative, which includes a weight control programme, for all employees and their family members.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 74% of its employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. It also reveals the proportions of its total direct operations workforce by gender for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company focuses on engaging with stakeholders to address potential human rights impacts from its operations, notably in Brazil and Central America. For example, in Central America, the company collaborated with Walmart and Kellogg’s on projects, including delivering milk to children in multiple communities and raising funds through employee and volunteer efforts.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by assigning decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives that cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose whether the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it 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 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, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently on progress against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, it could set time-bound reduction targets for scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in alignment with a 1.5-degree trajectory and report progress against these targets.

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

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 to report progress against them.

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

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and the use of sustainable packaging.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as to report progress against this target.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. It could also disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and reports progress against the target. Additionally, it has an opportunity to engage with suppliers 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 has an opportunity to adopt a nutrient profiling system that aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to 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 for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

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

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of other workforce nutrition programmes, such as workplace breastfeeding supports and healthy food offerings. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to implement workforce nutrition programmes for its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and to require an age-verification system in 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.

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 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 has an opportunity to disclose a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption, and to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption risks and impacts, along with establishment of a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related complaints. Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specifying that it does not make political contributions and divulging its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has statement respecting worker well-being, it could enhance this commitment by establishing a public policy document and providing specific details about worker health and safety, including hours worked. It could also introduce a policy that requires its suppliers to prioritise the well-being of their employees and describe how it monitors supplier compliance.

Furthermore, there is an opportunity for the company to publicly commit to achieving a living wage for its workers within a certain timeframe. It could also explain how it calculates a living wage in the areas it operates and supports suppliers in meeting this standard.

Moreover, the company could openly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, including setting specific time-bound targets. Additionally, it could disclose whether women comprise at least 30% of its highest governing body. Lastly, the company could provide information about the pay ratio between men and women in various job categories and significant locations.

Respect human rights
The company could share a policy statement demonstrating its commitment to upholding human rights. It also has an opportunity to declare its commitment to respecting the fundamental human rights defined by the ILO for the workplace and extend this expectation to its suppliers.

The company also has the opportunity to outline the method it employs to pinpoint human rights risks and impacts in specific areas or activities, addressing both its operations and supply chain. It could also disclose the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment, as well as detailing the process it follows to identify its significant human rights concerns. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to establish a comprehensive global strategy aimed at responding to, preventing, or mitigating its significant human rights issues.