Inghams

Sustainable development strategy
The company reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set a specific deadline to decrease its scope 1 and 2 emissions. It regularly updates its progress towards achieving these targets.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of processes of animal welfare third-party certifications or third-party audits.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company shows a strong commitment by implementing policies and engaging in activities aimed at reducing plastic use and transitioning to sustainable packaging. Additionally, it provides transparent and quantitative data about its efforts in this area, specifically related to plastic use reduction and their adoption of sustainable packaging practices.

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.

Child labour
The company requires suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers.

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 has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

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 in its operations and supply chain. In terms of gender equality, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and a target to achieve at least 40% female senior leadership by 2025 and 40% female leadership by 2030. Moreover, it has 50% women on the board.

Respect human rights
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
While the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Furthermore, it 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, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these 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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses 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. While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and water, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the potential to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. To further enhance transparency, the company can also consider establishing a time-bound target to lower its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and regularly report on its progress. Lastly, aligning the company’s scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory is also a possibility.

Animal welfare
While the company has a target that addresses animal welfare issues in its supply chain, it has an opportunity to make it applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to phase out the prophylactic use of antibiotics across all species, geographies and products, and report progress against the targets.

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

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

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and 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 currently 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 to set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products.

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

Food safety
The company has an opportinity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building 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
For its operations, the company has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. While it requires suppliers to have a monitoring system on forced labour topics, it could indicate how it builds suppliers’ capacity to prevent and address 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
Concerning bribery and corruption, the company could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations.

In terms of lobbying and political engagement, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its approach. Furthermore, it states that it does not make political contributions outside Australia, and makes political contributions after approval from the CEO. However, it has an opportunity to disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them. Furthermore, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and its requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
Regarding health and safety, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

Concerning a living wage, while the company states that it pays competitive wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Similarly, while the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, while the company has a statement, it could translate it in a public policy document. Furthermore, 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.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, the company states that it identifies human rights risks in its operations and supply chain and conducts due diligence to identify risks related to human rights and modern slavery in its supply chain. However, it has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and in its supply chain. Furthermore, it could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.