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Kerry Group

Kerry Group is a global leader in providing taste and nutrition solutions for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical markets. The company also processes and manufactures products for the retail market in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It operates 147 manufacturing locations across 50 countries, with sales of its 18,000-item product portfolio occurring in more than 150 countries worldwide. In 2022, Kelly Group acquired Kraft Heinz's B2B powdered business, German biotechnology innovation company c-LEcta, and US-based botanical ingredients supplier Natreon. To increase its presence in Southeast Asia, it has also acquired Almer, an established producer of quality spray dried ingredients.

Summary

Kerry Group performs well overall and ranks tenth in the food and agriculture sector with a score of 30.0 out of 100. Its best performance is in the violence and harassment measurement area, where it ranks fifth. It has an opportunity to improve in the representation measurement area, where it performs below average.

Kerry Group is one of the 13 companies that assesses and prioritises gender-related human rights impacts as being salient. It is one of the 6 companies that engages with women as part of its risk identification and assessment process. It is also one of the 9 companies that discloses its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace and is one of the 7 companies that requires its suppliers’ violence and harassment policy to be made available in one or more local language(s).

Kerry Group has an opportunity to disclose its global primary carer leave policy, and to align it to ILO standards of at least 14 weeks and to disclose its global secondary carer leave policy, and to align it to ILO standards of at least 2 weeks.

Ranking position: #28 /112
Total score: 30.0 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 9.3 /20	#11
Representation	#1 2.4 /17.5	#78
Compensation and benefits	#1 1.5 /17.5	#59
Health and well-being	#1 5.5 /17.5	#46
Violence and harassment	#1 7.7 /17.5	#5
Marketplace and community	#1 3.8 /10	#20
Total score	30.0 /100	#28

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	6.2 /35
Supply chain	10.8 /35

Segment
Food and Agriculture	#10

More about the company

Headquarters: Tralee, Ireland
Number of employees: 23000
Percentage of female employees: 33%
Group revenue: USD 9,234 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.kerry.com/