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

Food loss and waste
The company works with value chain partners to prevent FLW from being generated. For instance, it partnered with ATYPIQUE to build a trading digital platform that promotes downgraded and overproduced products, avoiding food waste at source.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education programme for its employees.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting 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.

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

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company states it has a sustainability 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
While the company discloses that it is a member of the Airline Catering Association, it has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member in all jurisdictions in which it operates. 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 has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Additionally, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has stated its objective to reduce carbon emissions by 30% on sites that have conducted a carbon footprint analysis (scope 1, 2 & 3) by 2030. However, there is no evidence that the company has set targets to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions in its overall operations. It would be beneficial for the company to report progress on these targets. In addition, aligning the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory is an opportunity.

The company has disclosed its approach to conducting carbon footprint analyses for scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions in its production units, aiming to identify efficient and relevant actions to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, there is no evidence of quantitative reductions for scope 1 and 2 emissions being disclosed.

Furthermore, it has the opportunity to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and disclose a time-bound target to achieve this reduction. It would also be beneficial for the company to report progress on these scope 3 targets, as well as align these targets 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 an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning 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.

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.

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.

Food safety
While the company discloses that it has obtained ISO 22000 certification, it has an opportunity to extend the certification to 100% of its own operations.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of other workforce nutrition programmes, such as workplace breastfeeding support and healthy food offerings. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to implement workforce nutrition programmes for its supply chain workers.

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.

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
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.

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 the process for identifying bribery and corruption, and integrate related clauses in contracts with business relationships. Additionally, it could disclose a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism through which stakeholders can file related complaints. Moreover, the company has the opportunity to disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company expects its business relationships to prioritize health and safety of their workers, this can be solidified into a policy commitment, while also detailing its approach to overseeing supplier compliance.

Furthermore, it could set a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or confirm the attainment of this goal. The company could elaborate on its process for determining regional living wage, and how it aids suppliers in making this payment.

Moreover, while already dedicated to diversity, the company could explicitly pledge to gender equality and women’s empowerment, along with revealing related timebound goals, and sharing data including women’s representation in the highest governance body and the women-to-men salary ratio.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work, and extend this expectation to its business relationships. Additionally, it could articulate a thorough process for identifying human rights risks and impacts within its operations and supply chain, and elucidate how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, considering factors like geography, economics and social dynamics. Moreover, the company could reveal a global system to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.