Driscoll’s

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

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.

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

Provide and promote decent work
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement that requires its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Furthermore, the company provides detailed information regarding the methods it employs to monitor the health and safety performance of these relationships.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that outlines its expectation for suppliers to respect the core labor rights set by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

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
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 does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint, nor does it report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to disclose its activities aimed at improving soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. Furthermore, the company can disclose a specific target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and provide regular progress updates on this goal.

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 statement prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It can also disclose the procedures it employs to identify and address bribery and corruption in its own operations and establish a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns without fear of reprisal. Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, stating it does not make political contributions, and revealing its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of its workers. The company has the chance to disclose a deadline for achieving or confirmation of having achieved payment of a living wage to all workers. In addition, it could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in and how it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights but has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document, including but not limited to fundamental human rights at work as declared by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The company can also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including those of its suppliers. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Lastly, it has the chance to disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues, aiming to prevent, lessen, or remedy them.