Sustainability rating

Kingfisher sustainability rating combines data, analytics, and disclosure assets to provide corporates with a one-stop performance assessment. The scoreboards shows and helps to understand your ESG performance, plus makes you result comparable with your business partners and industrial benchmarks. Kingfisher ESG rating is the standardized, transparent way to

• Analyse and optimise your ESG performance
• Show your clients, employees, investors your ESG commitment in a transparent way
• Avoid self-assessment
• Benchmark against market peers
• Gain data-driven insights into your strengths and weaknesses through a coherent methodology
• Support fulfils regulatory requirements
• Have clear results and feedback about your performance.

Supply chain due diligence

Supply chain transparency should be a core aim of every company. Yet a number of trends have conflated to make this more difficult to achieve than ever before.

Supply chain shocks

In the last two years alone, events such as the global energy crisis, the Ukraine conflict, the lithium shortage, Covid-19 and the blocking of the Suez Canal have created significant global supply chain issues, and contributed to a rise in the cost of materials. In the rush to find brand new suppliers after a disruptive event, companies may be tempted to cut corners in their supplier onboarding and due diligence processes to maintain business services.

The rise of ESG

Today’s consumers, investors and employees expect companies to take ethical, environmental and other ESG issues seriously and have a positive influence on society. The ethical approach a company takes to its supply chain affects how that company and its brands are judged. For example, people may turn away from a firm whose supply chain does not sufficiently mitigate ethical risks such as poor treatment of the workforce or a manufacturing process that causes pollution.

Regulatory requirements

The EU CSRD, the EU CSDDD (under acceptance) and the German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains (German: Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, LkSG) requires companies to conduct appropriate human rights and certain environmental due diligence in their supply chains.

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