Boparan

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, though it has an opportunity to disclose additional detail.

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

Act ethically
The company reveals its public commitment to safeguarding personal data, and discloses a privacy statement that outlines how  personal data is used. Additionally, the company discloses a global tax strategy and identifies an executive-level individual who holds responsibility for overseeing this strategy.

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. This commitment extends to its business relationships as well. Furthermore, the company publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. This expectation similarly applies to its business relationships. Additionally, the company publicly states that all overtime work must be consensual and be paid at a premium rate.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights and extends this expectation to its business relationships.

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 and to describe its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion, and it 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
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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 publicly available policy statement that prohibits bribery and corruption. Moreover, it could incorporate anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. In addition, the company could outline a process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts particularly concerning its own operations. While the company has a mechanism in place for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify that this mechanism is open to all stakeholders and that complainants have an option to reveal their identity or submit reports anonymously.

Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to reveal a policy regarding its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It could further specify its non-involvement in making political contributions, accompanied by a disclosure of its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose its methods for monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Additionally, while the company assures payment of at least the minimum wage to its employees, it can enhance this commitment by setting a time-bound target for a living wage. It could also detail how it determines the living wage in its operational regions. Furthermore, although the company specifies wage expectations for suppliers, it has an opportunity to stipulate a requirement for them to provide a living wage. It could also explain how it support suppliers for ensuring such payments

Moreover, despite its ongoing equal opportunity initiatives, the company could solidify its dedication to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a public policy document. It could further set related time-bound targets, and report information including the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
Although the company has adopted the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base code, it has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that explicitly commits to respecting human rights. In addition, the company could detail the process it employs to identify human rights risks and impacts within its own operations. Relatedly, while the company mandates suppliers to do self-assessments, it could also provide an outline of the process it employs to identify human rights risks and impacts throughout its supply chain. The company could also elaborate on its methods of assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.