Autogrill

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company provides evidence of linking performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates commitment and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Furthermore, it discloses income tax payments for all its tax jurisdictions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Furthermore, it reports the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by gender and age group.

The company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment. By the end of 2030, it aims to increase women representation in leadership roles by 40-50%. Currently, women make up 46% of its Board of Directors.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Also, the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion. However, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, it could improve its transparency by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion or to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion or to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and it does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption. While it has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it is unclear if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders.

The company has a publicly available policy statement setting out its lobbying approach. However, it could further demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to political engagement, emphasizes its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures and add a requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a health and safety policy but could use stronger language to show a commitment to health and safety. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

The company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees; however, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. While it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment. Additionally, it could report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to human rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work by translating these statements into a formal policy document. The company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work and ensure it applies across all contexts and locations.

Additionally, while it has conducted a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose how it identifies human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and value chain. It could also disclose the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues and disclose what it considers as salient human right issues for the company. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.