Bidcorp

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities along with frequency and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, it reports how its stakeholder engagement activities impact its sustainability strategy.

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 grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Additionally, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, and reports that it has 30% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Additionally, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers, as well as external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

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 and the outcome of the process. Also, the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate. However, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Concerning accountability of its sustainability strategy, although the company discloses a remuneration policy related to climate, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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 disclose a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, describe its process for identifying such activities, and incorporate related clauses in contracts with business relationships. Additionally, the company could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities. While the company states that it makes political contributions after approval from the board, it has an opportunity to disclose whether these are made only by exception, and detail the criteria for these cases.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement expecting its suppliers to commit to respecting health and safety of their workers, along with information on supplier compliance monitoring. It could set a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or declare it has achieved this goal. Additionally, the company could explain its method for determining a living wage in each region, and how it supports suppliers in paying a living wage. Moreover, it has the opportunity to commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, disclose related time-bound targets, as well as information on the ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain, but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Additionally, while the company carries out risk assessment management processes, it has an opportunity to disclose how it identifies human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. It could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues. Moreover, it could also disclose a global system to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.