Organizacion Soriana

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

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

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.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 39% of its workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, it provides information on the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, categorized by age group.

Respect human rights
The company provides multiple avenues for workers to raise complaints or concerns, including an email, contact number, and website managed by a third party. These channels are accessible to all employees. Importantly, it is clear that the channels are open for anyone to make a report, and complainants have the option to remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it 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 sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment and targets that address key animal welfare issues in its supply chain.

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
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to plastic use reduction and its transition towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and 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 how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

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 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.

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 room to improve its description of the process used to identify bribery and corruption risks and their impacts in specific locations or activities. It also has an opportunity to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Although the company provides a mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns about bribery and corruption, it’s unclear whether this can be done without fear of reprisals. Furthermore, the company can publicly disclose a policy statement that emphasizes its commitment to refraining from making political contributions. It could also create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. To foster greater accountability, the company might consider disclosing expenses related to lobbying activities. Lastly, enforcing its lobbying policy on third-party lobbyists would be valuable.

Provide and promote decent work
Although the company has a health and safety policy, there’s an opportunity to convey a more resolute commitment by employing stronger language. Additionally, the chance exists for the company to disclose a policy statement that encourages suppliers to respect the health and safety of their workers. It could also reveal its methods for monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Moreover, there’s an opening for the company to share either a time-bound target for implementing living wages. The company could elaborate on the process it employs to determine living wage standards. Also noteworthy is the opportunity for the company to outline its strategies aimed at facilitating the adoption of living wage practices by its suppliers. In terms of gender equality and empowerment, the company holds the potential to publicly underscore its dedication. This could be achieved through disclosing time-bound objectives for advancing gender equality and empowering women. The company has room to ensure that at least 30% of its highest governing body comprises women.

Respect human rights
The company has multiple opportunities to enhance transparency in its approach to human rights. Firstly, the company can disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting the human rights defined as fundamental by the ILO. This commitment can also extend to the company’s suppliers, by requesting their adherence to these fundamental rights. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear description of its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts and disclose the results, covering not only its own operations but its supply chain. Additionally, it has the potential to outline its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its most important human rights issues. Moreover, the company has a chance to further its transparency by instituting a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate its most important human rights issues.