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Coles Group

Coles Group is one of Australia's largest retailers, with over 2,500 supermarkets, liquor, and convenience stores across the country with more than 20 million customer transactions weekly. The company was founded in Victoria in 1914 and was owned by Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers between 2007-18, when it was spun off and listed as an independent company. Coles works predominantly with domestic suppliers, with 100% of its own brand lamb, pork, chicken, milk, and egg products sourced in Australia.

Summary

Coles Group performs strongly overall and ranks fourth in the food and agriculture sector with a score of 40.0 out of 100. It demonstrates leadership in the violence and harassment, and marketplace and community measurement areas across the whole benchmark. It has an opportunity to improve in the health and well-being measurement area, where it performs moderately.

Coles Group is one of six companies that collects sex -disaggregated data on the gender balance of its employees by occupational function and is one of four companies that collects sex-disaggregated data on the percentage of employees promoted. It is also one of the 15 companies that discloses that its secondary carer leave policy is of at least 2 weeks.

Coles Group has an opportunity to disclose its global primary carer leave policy as well as disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace.

Ranking position: #11 /112
Total score: 40.0 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 7.9 /20	#22
Representation	#1 6.7 /17.5	#9
Compensation and benefits	#1 6.0 /17.5	#11
Health and well-being	#1 5.5 /17.5	#46
Violence and harassment	#1 7.7 /17.5	#5
Marketplace and community	#1 6.3 /10	#8
Total score	40.0 /100	#11

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	12.2 /35
Supply chain	13.7 /35

Segment
Food and Agriculture	#4

More about the company

Headquarters: Collingwood, Australia
Number of employees: 120000
Percentage of female employees: 50%
Group revenue: USD 27,601 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.colesgroup.com.au/