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Stakeholder engagement
The company’s stakeholder engagement activities cover the material parts of its value chain. It engages with stakeholders in the nature, nutrition, and social areas.

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 on progress against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It reports an overall decrease in its scope 1 and 2 emissions from 220,591.11 tCO₂e in FY 2021 to 218,748.4 tCO₂e in 2022.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. For instance, it has established a Sustainable Palm Oil Policy and a Sustainable Coconut Oil Policy to ensure that palm oil and coconut oil in its supply chain are free from links to deforestation, peat planting, and exploitation of human rights.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses that its cooking oil is tagged with a healthier choice symbol approved by the Health Promotion Board (HPB), a governmental statutory board that administers the Nutrition Labelling Programme in Singapore. This healthier choice symbol helps consumers to identify healthier products that are better for their health.

Forced labour
The company discloses a prohibition to use any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job and to retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement for its operations and supply chain.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. Moreover, it has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a publicly available policy statement where it pledges to uphold the health and safety of workers, while also expecting a similar commitment from its business relationships. Additionally, the company discloses the percentage of women in each employee category, and further reveals it has 43% representation of women on its board.

Respect human rights
The company has a public policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights, with an extension of this commitment to its business relationships. Additionally, it outlines its procedure for identifying human rights risks and impacts within specific locations or activities that encompass its operations. Furthermore, it divulges the categories of stakeholders, such as employees, foreign workers and children, whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives that 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 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 stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond its materiality assessment.

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.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to set a time-bound target for reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and to report on its progress towards these targets. Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and to set a time-bound target to reduce these emissions, while also reporting progress towards these targets. Additionally, the company could align its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilisers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and to 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. Moreover, the company could align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Water withdrawal
The company has the opportunity to provide quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal within its own operations. In addition to disclosing reduction targets for water consumption, absolute water use, and/or water intensity, the company could also set a target to reduce water withdrawal across its operations and track progress. Furthermore, it could report the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations, particularly in water-stressed areas, as well as engaging 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 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.

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 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 could provide evidence of marketing activities to promote healthier and more nutritious food options, in accordance with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose a responsible marketing policy specifically tailored to children that aligns with international codes and guidelines and is applicable across all media channels..

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. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the productivity and sustainability of the farms, but could further demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Additionally, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to indicate how it is building 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 describe its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts within its own operations. While it expects its business relationships to prohibit bribery and corruption, it could further include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with them.

Furthermore, the company could establish a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It has an opportunity to specify its stance of non-participation in political contributions and enhance transparency by divulging its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company assesses high-risk suppliers annually, covering safety and health, it could reveal a global monitoring approach for health and safety performance of its business relationships.

Moreover, although the company asserts paying at least the minimum wage, there is an opportunity to pledge a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It could also share its methodology for determining a living wage for its operational regions. Furthermore, while the company has set wage expectations for suppliers, it could add a requirement for them to pay a living wage and disclose how it supports such payments.

Additionally, the company is dedicated to advancing gender equality as per UN Sustainable Development Goal 5. It could go a step further and explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. It could set related time-bound targets, and enhance transparency by reporting data such as the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
While the company discloses its commitment to upholding human rights in its Sustainably Palm Oil Policy, there is room to broaden this commitment across all facets of its operations. Furthermore, even though the company outlines an annual audit process for high-risk supplier mills, also encompassing human rights issues, it could take a step further by detailing its approach in identifying human rights risks and impacts throughout its own operations.

Moreover, the company has the opportunity to elaborate on its method for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. It could also unveil a global system designed to address, prevent, or mitigate its salient human rights issues.