Wen’s Foodstuff

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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 has an opportunity to disclose sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

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

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment and targets that address key animal welfare issues in its supply chain.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment and targets to reduce the use of antibiotics and growth promoting substances in its supply chain. Further, it could disclose a reduction in the total use of antibiotics classified as medically important antimicrobials by the World Health Organization.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has the opportunity to disclose its FLW reduction targets and report progress in achieving these targets. Additionally, the company should consider aligning 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 enhance its disclosures relating to plastic use reduction and its transition towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and 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 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.

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 a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and establish 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 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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It can also disclose the procedures it employs to identify and address bribery and corruption in its own operations, and establish a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns without fear of reprisal.

Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, stating it does not make political contributions, and revealing its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain, and demonstrate how it monitors supplier compliance. The company has the chance to disclose a deadline for achieving a living wage or confirm that it has achieved this goal. It could also detail how it determines a living wage for its operational regions and how it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respecting human rights, as well as the fundamental human rights at work as declared by the ILO within its operations and supply chain.

The company can also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Moreover, it could unveil a global system designed to prevent, mitigate or address its salient human rights issues.