Savola Group

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 found for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

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

Sustainable development strategy
Savola Group’s sustainability strategy, which is executed by the Savola World Foundation, includes objectives covering social inclusion and environment conservation. While the company discloses evidence of a materiality assessment to determine the topics where it has the most impact, it has an opportunity to set targets for its most relevant sustainability topics and report against them.

Governance and accountability for sustainability
Savola Group’s governance system includes board-level responsibility and accountability for its sustainability strategy. The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that board-level or executive remuneration is linked to sustainability objectives in the environment, nutrition and social inclusion dimensions.

Stakeholder engagement
The company demonstrates that it engages with a diverse group of stakeholders through the Savola World Foundation and discloses a list of key stakeholder groups and issues raised with them. In setting up the foundation, the company engaged stakeholders to help identify material issues and the foundation’s capabilities on resolving them. However, company does not demonstrate it engaged stakeholders on topics related to the environment.

Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
While the company reports on scope 1 GHG emissions and demonstrates a year-on-year reduction, it has an opportunity to report on scope 2 GHG emissions and set targets on both.

Protein diversification
The company does not disclose that it is diversifying its protein portfolio, for instance, by increasing the proportion of plant-based proteins and other alternatives such as cell-based meat analogues and plant-based dairy options.

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

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations through its Negaderha Program, it does not disclose quantitative data on reductions in food loss and waste volumes. Savona Group has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and supply chain and reporting against these targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
Savola Group does not disclose that it is reducing its plastic use and transitioning to sustainable forms of packaging.

Animal welfare
Savole Group does not disclose that it is addressing key animal and aquatic welfare issues for its relevant key species in its sourcing practices. It has an opportunity to disclose a commitment that addresses key issues for animal and aquatic welfare across its relevant species, geographies and products.

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

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment and activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of healthy foods for vulnerable groups.

Clear and transparent labelling
While the company discloses commits to comply with national regulations regarding labelling and to make nutritional information available for all consumers, it has an opportunity to make nutritional information more visible to consumers through the adoption of front-of-pack labels and any other consumer-facing nutrition label.

Responsible marketing
The company does not disclose a responsible marketing policy, nor guidelines specific to marketing to children.

Workforce nutrition
While the company demonstrates that it offers healthy foods for over 1,000 employees at the Savola canteen, it has an opportunity to expand this programme to include all employees as well as to develop it further to include nutrition education, nutrition-focused health checks and breastfeeding support.

Food safety
Savola Group demonstrates that 100% of its operations are certified to a food safety scheme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative. The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by disclosing the percentages of its supply chain that are certified to such a food safety scheme.

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

Living wage
Savola Group does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage or requires its suppliers to do the same. Neither has it set targets to do so in the future.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
Savola Group 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.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
Savola Group 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.

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.

Savola Group provides grievance mechanisms for workers and third parties and commits to respecting the human rights of its workers. However, the company does not disclose a policy committing to respect the ILO core labour rights, nor a statement expecting suppliers to respect these rights. Moreover, Savola Group does not provide evidence of a human rights due diligence process nor disclose how it engages with affected and potentially affected stakeholders.

Savola Group commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers, but does not disclose that it places similar expectation on its business relationships and monitors their performance. Related to workforce diversity, the company reports on the number of disables employees in operations but lacks disclosure on other markers of diversity such as age and gender. No commitments or policies on the other decent work topics – living wage, working hours, collective bargaining, and gender equality and women’s empowerment – were found.

Savola has a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption and a concerns mechanism for all stakeholders, but does not disclose its process to identify related risks nor how it ensures business relationships uphold the same standard. No policies or commitments on the other ethical business topics – personal data protection, tax and lobbying and political engagement – were found.