Grupo Comercial Chedraui

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses 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 demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

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

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce for each employee category by race or ethnicity. Moreover, the company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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 engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Also, while it assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management, it has an opportunity to assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, the company could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, it 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 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 has an opportunity to improve disclosures on water withdrawal by setting targets, disclosing withdrawals from water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information for water pollution.

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 several opportunities for enhancing transparency and accountability in areas concerning bribery, corruption, and political engagement. While it prohibits bribery and corruption, formalizing this stance in a public policy document could lend greater weight to the commitment. It could also describe its process for identifying risks and impacts of bribery and corruption in its operations across specific locations or activities. Additionally, the company could strengthen its supplier contracts by including explicit anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses. Concerning its existing stakeholder grievance mechanism for bribery and corruption, it needs to ensure that the platform is accessible to all stakeholders, taking into account language barriers. On the political front, the company could establish a formal policy for lobbying and political engagement and make it publicly available. It could clarify its stance on political contributions by disclosing a policy statement that specifies it does not make such contributions. Further, it could be more transparent about its lobbying expenditures and require compliance from third-party lobbyists with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has opportunities to improve its disclosures in several areas. While it states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, the company could commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclosing how it determines a living wage for different regions. It could also disclose how it supports its suppliers in paying a living wage. In terms of health and safety, the company could disclose policy statements committing both itself and its suppliers to worker health and safety. On the subject of gender equality, although the company reports progress on its corporate gender strategy, it could set time-bound targets for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and aim for at least 30% female representation on its board. While the company performs regular pay equity analyses, it has an opportunity to disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce, broken down by employee category and significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company already has a publicly available policy statement on human rights, but it could strengthen this by using more formal language that commits to respecting the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. Similarly, the company has the opportunity to issue a policy statement requiring its suppliers to also respect these fundamental ILO rights. In terms of risk assessment, the company could describe its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts both in its own operations and in its supply chain across specific locations or activities. Moreover, it could elaborate on its process for assessing what it considers to be its most significant human rights issues and disclose the results of these human rights risk assessments.