Ocean Spray Cranberries

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

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company has key performance indicators covering topics across the three benchmark dimensions of environment, nutrition and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy as well as how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While responsibility for the company’s sustainable development strategy lies with the senior vice president of research & development and sustainability, the company has an opportunity to strengthen accountability by assigning this responsibility to its highest governance body. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to disclose further evidence regarding its decision-making processes and oversight responsibilities as well as linking sustainability objectives and targets to roles and remuneration.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
The company does not disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity, and fertiliser and pesticide use
Ocean Spray Cranberries discloses qualitative evidence regarding improving soil health and optimising the use of fertiliser. The company collaborates with the SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) and it utilises the FSA and its own Cranberry Farm Sustainability Assessment to reduce the use of fertiliser. The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that improve soil health and agrobiodiversity and reduce the use of fertiliser, and disclosing quantifiable data on the impact of these activities.

Water use
The company does not disclose that it is reducing water withdrawals across its operations and supply chain

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystems
The company does not disclose activities aimed at achieving deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) supply chains for its high-risk commodity, cocoa. It has an opportunity to increase its disclosure on commitments to source cocoa through recognised certification programmes or by disclosing targets for achieving DCF supply chains.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its operations through upcycling and reusing many of its organic materials such as the hulls of cranberries, it can improve by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and supply chain and reporting progress against these targets.

Availability of healthy foods
The company does not provide evidence of improving the nutritional quality of its products and of proportionally increasing the sales of healthy and nutritious foods.

Clear and transparent labelling
While the company commits to complying with national regulations regarding labelling and providing nutritional information on key relevant nutrients through back-of-pack labels, it has an opportunity to make nutritional information more visible to consumers through the adoption of front-of-pack labels and/or any other consumer-facing nutrition label.

Workforce nutrition
While the company discloses a programme to improve workforce nutrition through healthy food at work, it has an opportunity to develop this programme further to ensure the provision of nutrition education, nutrition-focused health checks and breastfeeding support throughout its operations.

Food safety
While the company discloses compliance with the SQF Food Safety Code, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by disclosing the percentages of its operations that are certified to a food safety scheme/certification programme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative.

Child and forced labour
The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child and forced labour in its operations and supply chain.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company does not disclose that it specifically recognises the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
The company does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Land rights
The company does not commit to recognising and respecting the legitimate tenure rights related to the ownership and use of land of local communities.

Ocean Spray Cranberries publicly commits to respecting the human rights of workers in its own operations and supply chain but does not sufficiently commit to respecting human rights in general. Moreover, the company lacks evidence of a human rights due diligence process and grievance mechanisms for both its workers and third parties. Neither does the company commit to engaging with affected stakeholders.

No evidence of policies or commitments related to key decent work issues was found in the public domain. As such, Ocean Spray Cranberries does not demonstrate that it provides secure, safe and healthy workplaces, where workers are fairly renumerated and have a meaningful say in decision-making.

Ocean Spray Cranberries lacks a policy statement on the protection of data privacy. Moreover, no relevant policies or commitments on other key ethical business topics – tax, bribery and corruption, and lobbying and political engagement – were found in the public domain.