Thai Beverage

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.

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. Moreover, it has established group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set a target to reduce its scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 15% by 2025, compared to 2019. It also reports its progress towards achieving these targets. In addition to reducing scope 1 and scope 2 emissions, the company also actively works on reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. As part of its commitment towards sustainability, the company has disclosed its target to achieve net-zero scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Progress against these scope 3 targets is also disclosed by the company.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It is committed to innovate packaging from materials that can be reused or recycled to reduce post-consumption waste.

Water withdrawal
The company has taken steps to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations. It also reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme. It adheres to strict quality standards and closely monitor all its operations to ensure consistent quality and safety throughout production, storage, transportation and last mile service.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company publicly commits to safeguarding personal data, and also reveals its global tax strategy. Additionally, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, the company provides disclosure on its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Moreover, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company discloses its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. Moreover, the company discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities such as women, children, indigenous people, migrant labour, contracted labour, local communities, LGBTQI and disabled people.

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 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.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company reports consistently against some targets including climate, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to align its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
While the company has an intensity-based target to reduce water withdrawals, it has an opportunity to set an absolute target and report progress against it. It also has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce 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
In its Commitment on Health and Wellness, the company discloses that it has developed nutrition criteria in alignment with WHO dietary recommendations. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and 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 to set 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 the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

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 has in place expectations on the prohibition of child labour for its suppliers, it could disclose related policy requirements including the use of an age verification for workers.

Forced labour
The company has the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, 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.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

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 could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts. Additionally, while it has a mechanism for employees to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could disclose a mechanism accessible to all stakeholders.

Moreover, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach. It further has an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company adheres to compliance with laws related to health and safety, it could formalize its commitment in a policy document. It could also disclose methods for monitoring health and safety performance of suppliers. Furthermore, it can enhance its commitment to fair wages by setting a time-bound target for achieving a living wage, extending this requirement to suppliers, and detailing the support it provides. It could also further disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates.

In addition, while the company has undertaken initiatives in diversity and equality, it could make an explicit commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, accompanied by time-bound targets, as well as the disclosure of the basic salary and remuneration ratio between women and men.

Respect human rights
While the company discloses that it has a human rights due diligence process, and that it has identified some human rights risks and impacts in its own operations, it has an opportunity to describe comprehensively the process for identifying these risks and impacts in its operations and supply chain. Further, while it discloses its salient human rights issues, it can further disclose the process for assessing the saliency of these risks more clearly.