Jeronimo Martins

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

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with each stakeholder group.

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 reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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

Ecosystem conversion
The company’s conversion-free target covers all its high-risk commodities. Additionally, it discloses some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company also discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free.

Food loss and waste
The company has set FLW reduction targets in line with SDG 12.3, aiming for a 50% reduction by 2030. To achieve this, it actively works together with value chain partners to prevent the generation of FLW.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also discloses quantitative data with regard to the reduction of single-use plastic.

Protein diversification
The company presents quantitative evidence of its efforts to incorporate alternative proteins into its portfolio by increasing the number of vegan and vegetarian product launches.

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The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses the number of reformulated products and the percentage reductions in sugar, salt, and fat levels across its subsidiaries.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Nutri-score front-of-pack labelling system.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company sources fruit and vegetables from local farmers and is committed to supporting them. It has implemented a reduced payment period specifically for farmers in Portugal and Poland, without imposing any financial burden on them. Additionally, the company provides convenient opportunities for farmers to deliver their products to nearby stores or distribution centers, ensuring a streamlined production and distribution process.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company discloses its identification and assessment of risks, with a focus on areas and groups that are particularly exposed to health and safety (H&S) risks. It specifically identifies the health and safety risks faced by employees who handle products in warehouses, industrial kitchens, and stores, including loading/unloading, storage, and processing.

Act ethically
The company discloses a policy on bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contractual agreements with business relationships. Furthermore, it discloses its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption and a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns. Additionally, the company specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and provides evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. The company discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers.

Also, it publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. Furthermore, it discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and nationality. Lastly, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and has 36.36% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and 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
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.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses there is no misalignment between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its climate position. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with 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
While the company discloses some short-term sustainability objectives/targets, it has an opportunity to establish mid-/long-term and group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company can further decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and provide regular updates on its progress toward these goals. Moreover, it can establish specific time-bound targets for reducing scope 3 GHG emissions. Aligning all these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory and consistently reporting progress is an opportunity for the company.

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.

Food loss and waste
While the company discloses its FLW reduction targets, it does not measure progress against its targets.

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 provide quantitative evidence of its efforts to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations. Currently, the company discloses reduction targets related to water consumption, absolute water use, and water intensity. However, it can further enhance its disclosure by setting a target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and track progress towards that target. Furthermore, while the company mentions its plans to collaborate with suppliers to lower water withdrawal, it should also take the opportunity to report on and provide evidence of its engagement processes with suppliers.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to implement commercial activities that will enhance the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups. Additionally, it can set targets to improve accessibility or affordability of nutritious foods for these groups through its commercial activities.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has disclosed that its subsidiaries, Pingo Doce and Biedronka, have already adopted Nutri-score and display it on their packaged foods. Nevertheless, there is still an opportunity for the company to take further steps by utilizing government-endorsed nutrient-profiling systems to inform its product formulation and by setting 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 for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. 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 disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has the chance to provide examples of remediation programs when it discovers cases of child labor within its operations. It can also highlight its efforts to strengthen its suppliers’ ability to prevent child labor issues. Although the company already forbids its suppliers from utilizing child labor and has implemented two audit schemes to address child labor issues in high-risk sectors, it could additionally require them to implement a system for verifying workers’ ages.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach and specify that it does not make political contributions. Furthermore, it could disclose its requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company discloses that it pays a fair wage and expects the same in its supply chain, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. However, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment and place them in a formal policy document.

Additionally, while the company states that it conducts an annual risk assessment including human rights risks, it could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could also specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.