Inspire Brands

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Food loss and waste
The company collaborates with value chain partners to prevent FLW from being generated. It encourages recycling and adheres to local composting and recycling regulations in it franchise-owned restaurants. Dunkin’ Korea also started to reduce food waste in 2022 through food bank donations.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or engages in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. For instance, it works with its suppliers to reduce single-use packaging in its system, replaced polystyrene cup with double-walled paper cup made with certified paperboard, and began testing an industrial compostable straw made with PHA material that is both marine and soil biodegradable.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company states it has a ESG committee, it has an opportunity to disclose having persons, teams or committees within the company who are responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy and to assign decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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, the company 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
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how regularly the assessment is undertaken. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company 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 disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

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 chance to communicate its FLW reduction targets and provide updates on the progress made towards achieving these targets. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

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 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.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

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
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, and 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, along with implementing 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it could present evidence of its monitoring of suppliers compliance. Furthermore, it could reveal a time-bound target for paying a living wage for all employees, and disclose the process of determining the living wage in various operational regions. Additionally, it could describe how it supports suppliers to ensure the implementation of living wage practices.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. To reinforce this commitment, it could disclose related targets while showcasing the representation of women on its highest governance body.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting the ILO fundamental rights at work, and extend this expectation to its suppliers. The company has the chance to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts covering both its own operations and supply chain. Furthermore, it can outline a process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Finally, the company could establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues.