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Toennies

Toennies is a family company which operates out of eight business divisions; Pork, Beef, Convenience, Sausages, Ingredients, Logistics and International and Central services. The company has 25 office and production locations both domestically and abroad, with a daily production capacity of 850 tonnes of fresh and refrigerated meat. Subsidiary Tillman's Convenience provides customers and retail partners with a portfolio of 100 different products across four main groups; self-service meat, frozen convenience, fresh convenience & finished meat product. Toennies also has a diverse ingredients division, where a number of subsidiaries are active in the processing of raw materials for products including animal feed, pet food and edible oils and fats.

Summary

Toennies ranks 283rd in the Food and Agriculture Benchmark, its low performance reflecting a lack of disclosure on key topics across all measurement areas. In governance and strategy, the company discloses a sustainability strategy, but does not provide evidence of having dedicated staff to implement it. In the environment measurement area, the company discloses quantitative evidence of reducing some segments of its greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the use of antibiotics in its cattle, but fails to disclose action on other key topics such as protein diversification, food loss and waste reduction, and plastic use reduction. In the nutrition measurement area, the compalacks commitments on increasing the availability, affordability or accessibility of healthy foods. In the social inclusion measurement area, Toennies fails to disclose any sustainability-related information at all. Overall, Toennies has the opportunity to strengthen its sustainability strategy by including social and nutrition topics in it, setting targets and reporting progress against them.

Ranking position: #283/350
Total score: 5.0/100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-350)
Governance and strategy	#1 1.7 /10	#229
Environment	#1 2.0 /30	#258
Nutrition	#1 1.3 /30	#225
Social inclusion	#1 0.0 /30	#300

Segment	Rank
Agricultural products and commodities	#119
Animal proteins	#71
Food and beverage manufacturers/processors	#189

Segment ranking summary

Toennies belongs to the agricultural products and commodities segment, the animal proteins segment, and the food and beverage manufacturers and processors segment, and is ranked low in all three segment rankings. In the first, its relative performance in the governance and strategy dimension is the best, followed by nutrition, environment, and social inclusion. In the other two, it performs relatively better in nutrition than in governance and strategy. Toennies’ bottom-of-the-pack performance on social inclusion in all segments is thanks to its lack of disclosure of any commitments or activities on key topics. Overall, Toennies has room for improvement in all dimensions and against all segments.

Governance and strategy: No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.
Environment: No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.
Nutrition: No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.
Social inclusion: No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Governance and strategy

Sustainable development strategy
Toennies discloses sustainability objectives under eight key priority areas and outlines its process for identifying and prioritising these topics. However, it does not set targets for all of its key material topics.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company does not disclose the governance structure for the implementation of its sustainable development strategy or targets, such as the person, team or committee that holds ultimate responsibility for its implementation.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Environment

Animal welfare
While the company has made statements on animal welfare, it does not disclose an overall commitment towards addressing animal welfare issues for its relevant key species in its own operations and supply chain. It has an opportunity to disclose a commitment that addresses key issues for animal across its relevant species, geographies and products.

Antibiotic use and growth-promoting substances
While the company has a commitment on reducing the use of antibiotics in its supply chain, and discloses quantitative evidence of this, the company does not disclose a relevant policy that applies to all species, geographies and products relevant to the company or its processes to implement the policy (such as audits or certifications).

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
Toennies discloses a quantitative reduction of segments of its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions of 15,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2020. However, it does not disclose relevant targets. Furthermore, no information was disclosed regarding its scope 3 emissions.

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 by disclosing targets for achieving DCF supply chains.

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.

Water use
The company does not disclose that it is reducing water withdrawals across its operations and supply chain.

Nutrition

Availability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment or activities to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company does not disclose that it provides nutritional information through clear, transparent and accurate labelling.

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

Workforce nutrition
The company does not disclose sufficient evidence of having any workforce nutrition programmes.

Social inclusion

Child and forced labour
The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child or forced labour in its operations and/or supply chain.

Living wage
The company 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.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company 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.

Farmer productivity and resilience
The company 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.

Respect human rights: No policies or commitments related to respect for human rights were found in the public domain. This includes the necessary policies and systems to respect basic human rights in its operations and supply chain.
Provide and promote decent work: No policies or commitments related to providing and promoting decent work were found in the public domain. This includes the provision of secure, safe and healthy workplaces, where workers are fairly remunerated and have a meaningful say in decision making.
Act ethically: No policies or commitments related to key ethical business topics – personal data protection, tax, bribery and corruption, and lobbying and political engagement – were found in the public domain. This includes ensuring ethical business conduct throughout its operations and in its relationships with business partners.

More about the company

Headquarters: Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
Food and agriculture revenue USD: 7,556,818,200
Group revenue USD: 7,556,818,200
Onwnership structure: Family-owned
Number of employees: 16,500
Website: https://www.toennies.de

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Toennies

Segment ranking summary

Leading practices

Governance and strategy

Environment

Nutrition

Social inclusion

Risks and opportunities

Governance and strategy

Environment

Nutrition

Social inclusion

Core social indicators

Respect human rights

Provide and promote decent work

Act ethically

More about the company

This company is part of the SDG2000, the 2.000 most influential companies