Performance Food Group

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 on prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It also has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints. Furthermore, the company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy statement committing it to respect workers’ health and safety in its operations and supply chain. It also provides evidence of monitoring supplier health and safety performance. Furthermore, it discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Respect human rights
The company has a policy statement committing to respecting the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work and expecting its business relationships to uphold a similar commitment. It has also established a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives that cover environmental 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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. While it discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it report against some targets including climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion, but could further report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has disclosed that its overall scope 1 and 2 emissions have increased in the year 2022 compared to 2021. Specifically, the emissions have increased from 663,670 metric tons and 149,896 metric tons (location-based) in 2021 to 793,343 metric tons and 168,188 metric tons (location-based) in 2022. There is an opportunity for the company to report progress against these scope 1 and 2 targets and align them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Similarly, the company has the opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. To do so, it could disclose a time-bound target for reducing these emissions. Also, the company has an opportunity to report progress against the target and align them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on reducing the (prophylactic) use of antibiotics and growth promoting substances. It could also disclose targets to phase out the prophylactic use of antibiotics across all species, geographies, and products, and to report progress against them.

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 target(s) and report progress against these target(s). Additionally, the company could align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction in FLW 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 enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides examples of reformulated products. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious food offerings, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, it could 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.

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.

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 establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption. Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying, emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to its workers’ wellbeing by setting a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and detailing the living wage determination methodology in the regions where it operates. Furthermore, while it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.

Additionally, the company could translate its commitment statements on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and disclose related time-bound targets. It could also commit to having at least 30% women on the board of directors and disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to translate its statement to respecting fundamental human rights into a formal policy document. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its operations and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.