Benchmark 2024 Results:
Food, Beverage & Personal Care

Benchmark 2024 Results: Food, Beverage and Personal Care

Impact area results

In the Benchmark Report 2024, the Food, Beverage and Personal Care sector scored highest in the Workplace impact area (6.0 out of 10).

There remains work to be done in the impact area of Marketplace, where the sector averaged only 2.0 out of 10.

Across the four impact areas, scores contributed to an overall sector average result of 4.6 out of 10.

Top indicators

The top performing indicator was, Does the company prohibit child labour? (2.1.1), under the Workplace impact area. 80% of companies in the sector returned a score of 10 out of 10.

Challenging Indicators

Challenging indicators for this sector were:

• Does the company report on positive impacts on children/incidents of non-compliance with their product responsibility commitments? (3.3.2)
• Does the company disclose negative impacts on children in communities beyond the scope of operations? (4.3.2)

On both of these, just 1% of companies in the sector scored 10 out of 10.