Tanganda Tea Company

Lobbying and advocacy
The company reports a list of its business associations but could further disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all jurisdictions in which it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

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

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses that the Board, through the Finance Director, is responsible for ensuring compliance with the tax strategy. Additionally, it provides information on income tax payments for all of its tax jurisdictions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company provides information regarding the percentage of its total direct operations workforce that is covered by collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, it discloses the proportion of women in each employee category of its total direct operations workforce.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. While it states that the board of directors has expertise in environmental management and health and safety, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, climate, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its 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.

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 regularly the assessment is undertaken. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

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.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has a chance to disclose its FLW reduction targets and report its progress towards achieving those targets. Additionally, it has the opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction 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.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company has the opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and to report progress against the target. Additionally, it can report the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas and can engage with suppliers to reduce water 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
While the company discloses that 100% of its beverage division is certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme, it has an opportunity to extend the certifications to 100% of its own operations. Furthermore, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

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 could formalize its anti-bribery and anti-corruption commitment in a public policy document. Describing the process for identifying such risks, especially within specific locations or activities, is essential. Anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships could be added.

Moreover, ensuring accessible and anonymous mechanisms for stakeholders to report bribery and corruption concerns is crucial. Establishing a policy for lobbying and political engagement and disclosing a clear statement of non-political contributions would enhance transparency. Sharing lobbying expenditure details and enforcing compliance for third-party lobbyists with the company’s policy would reinforce ethical lobbying practices.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers across both its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it could strengthen this by presenting evidence of its monitoring of suppliers’ adherence to health and safety standards.

Furthermore, there’s room for the company to enhance its transparency by revealing a time-bound target for paying a living wage for all employees. It could effectively work towards this objective by disclosing the process of determining the living wage in various operational regions. Additionally, it could illuminate its collaboration with suppliers to ensure the implementation of living wage practices.

Simultaneously, the company could take a significant step by committing to gender equality and women’s empowerment. To reinforce this commitment, it could disclose related targets while showcasing the representation of women on its highest governance body.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights recognized as fundamental rights at work by the ILO, and extend this expectation to its suppliers. In terms of risk identification, the company has the chance to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts, covering both its own operations and its supply chain. Furthermore, it can outline a process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Finally, it could establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues.