Tiger Brands

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company has implemented certain activities to minimize ecosystem conversion.

GHG emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against it.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company openly shares its efforts to enhance soil health and promote agrobiodiversity in its production and sourcing practices.

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

Water
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

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

Act ethically
Tiger Brands has a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. To ensure accountability, the company has established a grievance mechanism enabling stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints related to bribery and corruption. Moreover, the company reinforces its ethical stance by explicitly stating that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a publicly available policy in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. It also publicly expects its business relationships to prioritize worker health and safety in a policy statement. Additionally, the company provides insights into the age of its board members, executive committee, and workforce demographics. Moreover, it discloses the percentages of women in various workforce categories, while also setting a clear time-bound goal of achieving 50% female representation by 2050.

Respect human rights
The company publicly commits to respecting human rights and ILO core labor rights through its policy statements. It also expects suppliers to uphold these rights, as stated in a policy statement.

To ensure accountability, the company provides a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers. On visiting its whistleblowing service website, it is clear that the channel is accessible to all external individuals and communities to make a report and there is a choice for the complainant to either remain anonymous or identify themselves.

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.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Also, while the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and nutrition, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. 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, the company states that the board of directors has expertise in sustainability. However, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose its activities aimed at achieving conversion-free supply chains, nor does it have any time-bound targets for this purpose. Additionally, the company does not disclose a commitment to minimizing ecosystem conversion or ensuring zero conversion. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and does not disclose any details or outcomes regarding ecosystem restoration projects in areas impacted by its own operations or those of its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against it. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 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 has an opportunity to disclose evidence of reducing the production of hazardous waste and substances, as well as commit to avoiding the development and marketing of new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company could report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. Additionally, it could start reporting on the emissions of harmful air pollutants and outline specific, time-bound targets for reducing air pollutants throughout its value chain.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on water pollution by disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights 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
While the company discloses that it conducts anti-corruption due diligence, it has an opportunity to enhance transparency by detailing the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts, specifically related to its own operations. Additionally, the company could strengthen its governance by adopting a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. To provide a comprehensive view of its practices, the company could consider disclosing its lobbying expenditures and the requirement for third-party lobbyists to adhere to its policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company can enhance transparency by disclosing quantitative health and safety data, including high-consequence work-related injuries, hours worked, and injury types. It should detail its supplier health and safety monitoring approach. While acknowledging fair compensation, committing to a living wage with a clear target and explaining the determination process would strengthen its stance. Describing support for suppliers’ living wage payment reinforces the commitment.

In the pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company could publicly express its commitment in a formal policy document. Board diversity can be increased beyond the current 25% female representation. The company could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce

Respect human rights
While the company highlights its due diligence approach, it could provide more details about the actual process of identifying human rights risks and impacts. Moreover, the company can elaborate on its methods for identifying human rights risks across its supply chain and specific locations or activities.

Although the company outlines its process for assessing human rights risks, it could further elaborate on its identified salient human rights concerns and disclose the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment. Additionally, the company could disclose a comprehensive global system aimed at addressing, preventing, and mitigating its identified salient human rights issues.