Sodiaal

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company takes steps to decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It has set a time-bound goal to reduce these emissions and regularly reports on its progress. Additionally, the company also works towards reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company actively adopts policies and engages in initiatives aimed at reducing plastic use and transitioning to sustainable packaging. Furthermore, the company provides transparent, quantitative data on its efforts to reduce plastic usage and promote the use of sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company has taken steps to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has developed an internal nutritional index called Nutri IndiS to assess the nutritional quality of its products. Within this framework, the nutritional indices for infants and adults incorporate the NutriScore, as well as the latest recommendations from scientific authorities and experts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has a program called Sodiaal Box, which aims to support young farmers. As part of this program, a portion of the sales from the specific milk carton called “Candia aide les jeunes agriculteurs” goes directly to the farmers. In addition to this, the program offers young farmers a financial grant in the form of share capital and investments related to dairy production. They also receive access to training and an allocation of additional liters of milk. Furthermore, the company has introduced a pilot program that allows producers to set the price of milk for a period of three to twelve months in advance. This feature enables the producers to engage in more effective financial planning.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. Furthermore, 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 and expects its business relationships to do the same. Furthermore, it discloses its target which aims for one-third women in its top-level executives by 2025.

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 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 report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

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 discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including social inclusion and climate but could further establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. While it reports against some targets including climate and social inclusion, 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 align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, they can disclose a time-bound target to reduce their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against these targets. Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to align its scope 3 emissions targets 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.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
While the company discloses that it seeks new methods to reduce the use of antibiotics, it 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 their prophylactic use across all species, geographies and products, and report progress against the targets.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against them. Furthermore, it has the chance to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target. Additionally, the company can report the amount of water withdrawn for its operations in water-stressed areas. Another opportunity for the company is to engage with suppliers and collaborate on reducing water 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 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 positive nutrients in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to establish a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

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 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. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts and to establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption. While the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders.

Furthermore, the company can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Furthermore, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Additionally, the company could translate its commitment on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights, and all of the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, 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.