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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. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and gender.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

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 discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including water and climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

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.

Food loss and waste
The company has the chance to declare its FLW reduction target or targets and provide updates on its progress towards achieving these objectives. Additionally, the company has the opportunity 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 enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

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 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 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 adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer- facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

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.

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
While the company prohibits bribery and corruption, it can formalize this commitment in a public policy document. Additionally, though the company conducts audits and investigations related to corruption, it can clarify its process for identifying bribery risks and impacts within its operations. Furthermore, while the company expects its suppliers to prohibit bribery and corruption, it could include related clauses in its contracts with business partners and specify the consequences of breaching these clauses. Moreover, the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns about bribery and corruption that is accessible to all stakeholders, but it should clarify that complaints can be made without fear of reprisal.

In addition, the company has an opportunity to establish a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It could specify that it does not make political contributions and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company claims to respect the health and safety of its workers, but it has the opportunity to formalize this commitment in a public policy document. Additionally, it could extend the same commitment to its suppliers and disclose how it monitors their health and safety performance.

Moreover, while the company states that it provides a remuneration package based on both the Group’s and individual’s performance, it could also commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It should also disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it supports the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.

Furthermore, despite having some initiatives related to gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company should explicitly commit to these goals in a public policy document. It should also disclose time-bound targets and report information, including the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respect human rights. Additionally, while the company has a publicly available policy statement committing to specific workers’ rights, it has the opportunity to reference all ILO fundamental rights at work and include them in a formal policy document. It could also extend these commitments to its business relationships.

Furthermore, there is an opportunity for the company to outline its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its own operations and supply chain. It could also provide a comprehensive description of its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system for acting on, preventing, or mitigating its salient human rights issues.