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Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its engagement activities.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses its target to reduce 60% of its scope 1 and 2 emission by FY 2040 and 0% carbon by FY 2050. It also reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of processes of animal welfare third-party certifications or third-party audits.

Food loss and waste
Between 2021 and 2022, there was a quantitative decrease in the amount of FLW generated by the company. The company discloses its FLW reduction targets and reports progress against them. It’s worth mentioning that the company’s FLW reduction targets are in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which aims to achieve a 50% reduction in FLW by the year 2030.

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

Availability of nutritious foods
The company shares data about its ongoing efforts to reduce sugar and salt in its entire portfolio.

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.

Forced labour
The company discloses a prohibition to use any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job and to retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement for its operations and supply chain.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. Furthermore, it also includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.   The company specifies that it does not make political contributions.

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.  Furthermore, it has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of its workers.   On the topic of gender equality and diversity, the company has 41.18% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement expecting suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. While it states that the board of directors has expertise in CSR and climate, it could further provide evidence whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

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 discloses the channels it uses to engage with stakeholder groups in general. However, it could further discloses channels it use to engage with each stakeholder group.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. While it discloses certain sustainability objectives, including those related to climate, water and social inclusion, there is room to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, while the company reports against some targets, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and report its progress in meeting these targets. The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets can be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, it has the chance to disclose a time-bound target for reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report its progress in achieving these scope 3 targets. Lastly, the company’s scope 3 emissions targets have the opportunity to be aligned 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.

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 adopt a nutrient profiling system that aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products.

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.

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.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company states it promotes smart, sustainable and inclusive food supply chains, and supports small-scale, local entrepreneurs. However, it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to 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 states that it has a process for identifying bribery and corruption but could disclose details of this process. While the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it is unclear if complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous and whether this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders. Furthermore, it outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement in its Code of Ethics but it has an opportunity to formalise this approach in a public policy document. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities as well as requirements for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage, and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Moreover, it could disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. The company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its workforce.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights and specific workers’ rights, but it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statements into a formal commitment and place them in a formal policy document. Also, it could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. While the company has conducted an ESG risk assessment, it has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its supply chain. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues as well as disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues by preventing, mitigating or remediating the latter.