Del Monte Pacific

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company is committed to enhancing soil health and agrobiodiversity in both its production and sourcing practices. It discloses its activities in this area and sets goals to achieve improvements. Furthermore, the company actively tracks and reports its progress towards enhancing soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

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

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company requires its business relationships to adhere to a specific process that focuses on identifying legitimate tenure rights holders. This process places particular emphasis on identifying and supporting vulnerable or marginalized tenure rights holders. Additionally, the company mandates that negotiations take place with these tenure rights holders in order to provide them with appropriate compensation.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company is committed to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
When it comes to health and safety, the company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain.
Concerning the workers’ rights, the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the practices of its business relationships in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
In terms of gender equality, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and expecting suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights.

Lobbying
While the company discloses a few trade associations, it has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all jurisdictions where it operates. 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 discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including nutrition, climate and soil health, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, although it discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it could link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Lastly, it could further improve its performance by disclosing 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
Although the company has reduction targets and discloses reduction for its scope 1 and 2 emissions, it is limited with its cannery location in Philippines. The company should set time-bound, parental level 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 does not disclose its inputs, such as its material footprint, and it also does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance.

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. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
When it comes to bribery and corruption, the company could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, although it has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns, it could clearly disclose if this mechanism is to raise bribery and corruption concerns and is accessible to all stakeholders.
In terms of lobbying and political engagement, while the company outlines its approach to political engagement in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its lobbying approach and specify that it does not make political contributions in a policy. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
When it comes to health and safety, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.
Concerning a living wage, while the company discloses it pays a living wage for full-time employees at manufacturing facilities, it has an opportunity to expand the commitment to all workers. Similarly, although the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it could add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.
In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment along with a time-bound targets. Furthermore, it could disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.
Furthermore, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and supply chain. Additionally, although the company conducts an human rights impact assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, it could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.