MHP

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, it discloses the specific outcomes from these engagement activities.

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, the company 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. The company extends this commitment to its business relationships, and provides information on how it monitors their health and safety performance. Moreover, the company publicly states that its workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours, including overtime.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights. Furthermore, 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’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company states it has an environmental officer overseeing its environmental performance but could further clarify whether its sustainability strategy covers both environmental and social strategy. It could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, 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.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. It also has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and disclose time-bound targets for such reductions. It can also report progress against these targets. Furthermore, the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets can be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company can reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, disclose time-bound targets for reduction, and report progress against these targets. Finally, the company’s scope 3 emissions targets can also be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

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 disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and track its progress towards achieving them. Furthermore, it has the opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and 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 report progress against this target.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its operations and to report its progress towards achieving this target. Additionally, it can report the amount of water withdrawn for its operations in water-stressed areas. Moreover, the company can engage with its 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 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.

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

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

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
While the company has a management system to deter and detect acts of corruption, it has an opportunity to elaborate on the process it uses to identify corruption risks and impacts within its operations.

Additionally, the company has an opportunity to outline its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy document. While the company states that it does not make political donations and reveals that it did not incur any political expenditure during the reporting year, it has an opportunity to disclose that it does not make political contributions other than donations and formalize this commitment in a public policy document. The company could also report its expenditures on lobbying activities

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays wages in compliance with local laws, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. Additionally, the company could disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it supports its suppliers in paying a living wage to their workers.

Furthermore, while the company advocates equal opportunity, it could explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. The company could disclose time-bound targets.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respect human rights. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, although the company has conducted a materiality assessment to identify risks to the business and periodic assessments of its business partners, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts within its operations and supply chain. The company could further elaborate on its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate its salient human rights issues.