Wilbur-Ellis

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

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company is committed to improving soil health and agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

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

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

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 could improve its performance by disclosing its sustainability strategy with nature-related targets. Also, while the company states it has sustainability teams, it has an opportunity to disclose having persons, teams or committees who are responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy and 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 and disclose whether its highest governance body possesses expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics beyond nutrition.

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 has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

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 prohibits bribery and corruption, and has an opportunity to formalise this commitment in a public policy document. It could further include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships, and describe its process for identifying such misconduct. Additionally, the company could highlight the existence of a grievance mechanism through which stakeholders can file related complaints. Further, it has the option to outline its strategy for lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it respects the health and safety of workers, it could formalise this commitment in a public policy document. It could extend this expectation to its business relationships, and provide evidence on how it monitors supplier compliance.

Additionally, the company has an opportunity to set a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that this goal has already been achieved. The company could also explain its method for determining a living wage in each region and how it supports suppliers in paying its workers a living wage.

Moreover, it could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and disclose related time-bound targets, along with information on the ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. It could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, and describe how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are considered. Moreover, it could also reveal a global system to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.