Gruma

Lobbying
Gruma discloses a list of membership associations. It has however an opportunity to further show leadership by disclosing a full list of its trade associations for all jurisdictions where it operates.

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.

Water
The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy against bribery and corruption and has anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints. Furthermore, it discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a privacy statement on the use of personal data.

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.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, the company 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
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 environmental policies aimed at minimizing risks and states that it doesn’t believe its activities pose significant environmental risks. However, there is no evidence that the company assesses its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. Additionally, the company does not disclose any assessments of its impacts or dependencies on nature in its supply chain, its own operations, or its 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 announced plans to plant a new generation of Acacia Regio specimens within the El Sabinal ecosystem, aiming to aid in the preservation of this species. Nevertheless, there is no evidence of the company disclosing comprehensive information about all species within or near its own locations. While the company discloses its involvement in conservation activities within El Sabinal National Park, there is no evidence of it disclosing locations within its own operations that are adjacent to or within vital biodiversity areas. Furthermore, the company does not reveal the locations of its suppliers situated in or near significant biodiversity areas, nor does it share data regarding species populations within its suppliers’ locations. Additionally, the company does not disclose the conservation status of species found within its own sites in accordance with national and international conservation lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company currently discloses its main raw materials, but it has the potential to disclose all of its inputs in accordance with an international standard. However, the company does not provide quantitative reporting on its circularity performance across the entire group. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose any efforts it is making to enhance soil health or promote agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. Furthermore, the company has the chance to establish a target for improving soil health in its production or sourcing practices and provide updates on the progress made towards achieving this target.

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 describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by extending the expectation to its business relationships and providing evidence of monitoring their compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describes the living wage determination methodology, and discloses strategies to support suppliers in paying 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 an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.