Grupo Lala

Lobbying
Grupo Lala discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
Grupo Lala discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its engagement activities cover nature, social, and nutrition areas.

GHG emissions
Grupo Lala reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Solid and air pollution
Grupo Lala provides examples of reducing plastic in its packaging and transitioning to more sustainable forms of packaging.

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

Provide and promote decent work
Grupo Lala discloses that 74.3% of its employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. It also reveals the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
Grupo Lala focuses on engaging with stakeholders to address potential human rights impacts from its operations, notably in Brazil and Central America. For example, in Central America, the company collaborated with Walmart and Kellogg’s on projects, including delivering milk to children in multiple communities and raising funds through employee and volunteer efforts.

Lobbying
Grupo Lala 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
Grupo Lala has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Grupo Lala states that it conducts a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Furthermore, it 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. Concerning accountability for its sustainability strategy, although the company states that it has the ESG committee comprising operations leaders, it has an opportunity to assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. 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 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
Grupo Lala 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 3 emissions and all of its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Grupo Lala 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
Grupo Lala has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
Grupo Lala 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. Grupo Lala has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
Grupo Lala has an opportunity to disclose information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
Grupo Lala does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Grupo Lala does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Grupo Lala 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
Grupo Lala has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption, along with implementing a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related complaints. Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specifying that it does not make political contributions and divulging its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
While Grupo Lala does express respect for worker well-being, it could enhance this commitment by creating an accessible policy. Besides, it has the chance to provide specific details about worker health and safety, including hours worked. It could also introduce a policy that requires its suppliers to prioritize the well-being of their employees. Additionally, the company could share insights into how it monitors supplier health and safety practices.

Furthermore, there’s an opportunity for the company to publicly commit to achieving a living wage for its workers within a certain timeframe. The company could also explain how it calculates a living wage in the areas it operates and actively supports suppliers in meeting this standard.

Moreover, Grupo Lala could openly embrace gender equality and women’s empowerment, including setting specific time-bound targets. Additionally, the company could disclose whether women comprise at least 30% of its highest governing body. Lastly, the company could provide information about the pay ratio between men and women in various job categories and significant locations.

Respect human rights
Grupo Lala could share a policy statement demonstrating its commitment to upholding human rights. It also has an opportunity to declare its dedication to respecting the fundamental human rights defined by the ILO for the workplace. Furthermore, the company could elaborate on a policy that encourages its suppliers to likewise adhere to the ILO’s fundamental rights at work.

The company also has the chance to outline the method it employs to pinpoint human rights risks and impacts in specific areas or activities, addressing both its own operations and its supply chain. It could also consider disclosing the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment, as well as detailing the process it follows to identify its significant human rights concerns. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to reveal a comprehensive global strategy aimed at responding to, preventing, or mitigating its significant human rights issues.