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Wonderful Company

The Wonderful Company, founded in 1979 and known formerly as Roll Global, is a private corporation based in Los Angeles, California. The company’s product portfolio includes fruits, nuts, flowers, water, wines and juices, and it is one of the world’s largest growers of tree nuts and among America’s largest citrus growers. Furthermore, Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is one of the world’s largest vertically integrated pistachio and almond growers and processors, operating 65,000 acres of pistachio and almond orchards and delivering more than 450 million pounds of nuts globally each year.

Summary

Wonderful Company ranks 251th in the Food and Agriculture Benchmark. The company performs poorly in the nutrition and social inclusion measurement area, where it fails to disclose commitments and targets on all the topics assessed. In the environment measurement area, Wonderful Company is encouraged to setting targets and report progress on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as on its water use since the latter has been recognized by the company as an urgent challenge. By setting targets for soil health and plastic use, Wonderful Company has the opportunity to improve its performance against its peers. In the governance and strategy measurement area, the company can enhance its disclosure by providing evidence of how it has identified its most relevant sustainability topics and of the outcome of this process in relation to its sustainability development strategy.

Ranking position: #251/350
Total score: 8.3/100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-350)
Governance and strategy	#1 0.8 /10	#248
Environment	#1 6.4 /30	#161
Nutrition	#1 0.0 /30	#278
Social inclusion	#1 1.0 /30	#270

Segment	Rank
Agricultural products and commodities	#103
Food and beverage manufacturers/processors	#168

Segment ranking summary

Active in the agricultural products and commodities and food and beverage manufacturers/processors, Wonderful Company performs below average in both segments predominantly because of an overall lack of commitments and targets in nutrition and social inclusion; thus, lagging behind its peers. The company has a good performance compared to the average of agricultural commodities companies in environment, being among the top performers on enhancing soil health but being among the weakest on its disclosure on gas emissions. Compared to its peers in food and beverage manufacturers/processors segment, it performs averagely across the same measurement area, but it lags behind its peers in the sector on relevant topics such as water use and food waste. Furthermore, the company is among the weakest performers in governance and strategy showing opportunity to strengthen its disclosure to align with its peers.

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
While the company has key performance indicators and time-bound targets covering topics within the Food and Agriculture Benchmark’s environment dimension, it has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

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

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
The company does not disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The Wonderful Company has converted 100 percent of its almond and pistachio acres to no-till systems in order to sustain soil health and reduce air pollution. However, the company can improve its performance by setting a time-bound target for percentage of production from sustainable practices that improve soil health and/or increase agrobiodiversity, and reports progress against.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company has set a goal to transition all its PET beverage bottles for the FIJI Water and P∂ M Wonderful brands to 100% recycled PET (rPET) by 2025, there is scope for improvement for Wonderful Company by reporting progress against the set target.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste in its operations through converting fruit and nut waste into animal feed, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its operations and supply chain and reporting against these targets.

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 provide evidence of improving the nutritional quality of its processed consumer products.

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

Food safety
The company does not disclose evidence of ensuring safe food for consumers through compliance with national regulations and/or the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene, nor an effective food safety certification scheme.

Social inclusion

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

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 in its supply chain.

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.

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 evidence of policies or commitments related to key decent work issues 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: The company publicly commits to protecting personal data and has a privacy statement on the use of personal data. However, no relevant policies or commitments and disclosure on key metrics on other key ethical business topics – tax, bribery and corruption, and lobbying and political engagement – were found in the public domain.

More about the company

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Food and agriculture revenue USD: 4,600,000,000
Group revenue USD: 4,600,000,000
Onwnership structure: Private
Number of employees: 10,000
Website: https://www.wonderful.com

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Wonderful Company

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