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Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group is among Australia's largest retail operators, with approximately 3,200 stores across Australia and New Zealand. The company is segmented into core businesses comprising Australian Food, New Zealand Food, Endeavour Group and Big W. The Australian Food business includes procurement and resale of food and related products through its Woolworths supermarket brand. These supermarkets source 96% of their fresh fruit and vegetables and 100% of their meat from Australian farmers and growers. The New Zealand Food business includes Countdown supermarkets that procure and sell food and drink products through its 181 stores across New Zealand. The Endeavour Group is involved in beverage production and hospitality services, while Big W operates department stores across Australia.

Summary

Woolworths Group demonstrates strong performance overall and ranks sixth in the food and agriculture sector with a score of 37.8 out of 100. It displays robust performance across almost all measurement areas. Nevertheless, it has an opportunity to improve in the compensation and benefits measurement area.

Woolworths Group is one of the 6 companies in the benchmark that collects sex -disaggregated data on the gender balance of its employees by occupational function as well as one of the nine companies that disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace. Like many other companies, it has a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as a violence and harassment policy for its employees and requires its suppliers to have an effective remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances of their workers.

Woolworths Group has an opportunity to disclose its global primary and secondary carer leave policy. Like most other companies in the benchmark, Woolworths Group has an opportunity to improve on disclosing gender-disaggregated turnover and promotion data, the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each employee category, as well as strengthening its commitment to preventing violence and harassment in its supply chain, e.g. through requiring its suppliers to conduct trainings on this topic or to have dedicated policies in one or more local languages.

Ranking position: #15 /112
Total score: 37.8 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 8.6 /20	#18
Representation	#1 5.8 /17.5	#15
Compensation and benefits	#1 3.1 /17.5	#37
Health and well-being	#1 8.8 /17.5	#13
Violence and harassment	#1 6.6 /17.5	#15
Marketplace and community	#1 5.0 /10	#11
Total score	37.8 /100	#15

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	14.0 /35
Supply chain	10.2 /35

Segment
Food and Agriculture	#6

More about the company

Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Number of employees: 197773
Percentage of female employees: 56%
Group revenue: USD 42,256 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/