[Africa] Unilever Takes Top Spot On Oxfam's Behind the Brands Scorecard
Food producer Unilever overtakes Nestlé by taking over the top spot on Oxfam's Behind the Brands Scorecard. Unilever tops Nestlé with an overall score of 71 percent compared to Nestlé's 69 percent. Oxfam's scorecard ranks the 10 biggest food and beverage companies, "Big 10" on their policies and commitments to improve food security and sustainability. The scorecard covers seven themes impacting the lives of people living in poverty around the world: transparency, farmers, women, agricultural workers, access to land, water and climate change.
Eight of the "Big 10" international food and beverage companies have improved their overall scores since February 2014 but French dairy producer Danone and the US based Coca-Cola Company have failed to improve in the overall scorecard. Oxfam publishes its second annual Behind the Brands scorecard update today.
The "Big 10" are clearly getting more serious about social and environmental issues, although the level of ambition still varies enormously across the companies with big gaps between the leaders and laggards.
In the last 2 years the companies improved their policies on paper but the new Oxfam Behind the Brand briefing Walking the Talk says they still have a long way to go in terms of implementing these new policies in practice.