Perfetti van Melle

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

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.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are FSSC 22000 certified.

Child labour
The company discloses an age verification system for the workers recruited for its operation and supply chain. Furthermore, it requires suppliers to prohibit child labour.

Act ethically
The company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Additionally, it specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement that commits to respecting the health and safety of workers in both its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. Furthermore, the company holds the same expectation for its business relationships to adhere to the same standard.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. In addition, it indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers, as well as all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management, it has an opportunity to assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, the company could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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 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. Furthermore, it could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has a goal of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use in manufacturing. However, there is no evidence that the company has specific targets in place to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. Although the company discloses its reduction efforts, there is no evidence to suggest that it reports progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets, which can be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to address its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. The company could potentially disclose a time-bound target for reducing these emissions, report progress against these targets, and also aligning them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. It 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.

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
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

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 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.

Forced labour
The company discloses a prohibition to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement for its operations and supply chain. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs in its value chain. Furthermore, it could indicate how it is building 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 disclose a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and outline its procedure for detecting such misconduct. Additionally, it could incorporate anti-bribery and anti-corruption provisions within business contracts. Moreover, the company has an opportunity to create a policy detailing its lobbying and political engagement approach, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company reports its oversight of the health and safety performance of its business relationships, and has the chance to outline the methods used for this monitoring.

Additionally, while stating compliance with minimum wage laws and supplier wage expectations, it could enhance its commitment by establishing a timeframe for achieving a living wage, and detailing the method for determining a living wage in each region. It could also elaborate on its support for suppliers in paying a living wage.

Moreover, extending from its diversity commitment, the company could explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, sharing related time-bound targets, and reporting data such as women’s representation in the highest governing body, and the ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women compared to men.

Respect human rights
The company’s existing policy statement demonstrates a commitment to human right, yet it could enhance the language to solidify this as a formal commitment. Additionally, while dedicated to due diligent processes, the company could elaborate on its methods for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. Further, the company could outline its procedure for evaluating and identifying its key human rights issues. Moreover, there is a potential to unveil a global system aimed at preventing, mitigating and remediating its salient human rights issues.