Business integrity and human rights

Business integrity

Compliance with laws and regulations

 

 

Unit

 

2023

 

2022

 

YOY

Total number of significant instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations during the reporting period (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

1

 

0

 

–

Thereof instances for which fines were incurred (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

1

 

0

 

–

Thereof instances for which non-monetary sanctions were incurred (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

0

 

0

 

–

Total number of fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that were paid during the reporting period (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

2

 

5

 

–60%

Thereof fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that occurred in the current reporting period (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

1

 

4

 

–75%

Thereof fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that occurred in previous reporting periods (GRI 2-27)

 

No.

 

1

 

1

 

0%

Monetary value of fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that were paid during the reporting period (GRI 2-27)

 

t CHF

 

255

 

15

 

>100%

Thereof fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that occurred in the current reporting period (GRI 2-27)

 

t CHF

 

248

 

2

 

>100%

Thereof fines for instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that occurred in previous reporting periods (GRI 2-27)

 

t CHF

 

7

 

13

 

–46%

Confirmed incidents of corruption and action taken

 

 

Unit

 

2023 *

 

2022

 

YOY

Total number of confirmed incidents of corruption (GRI 205-3)

 

No.

 

0

 

0

 

–

Thereof incidents in which employees were dismissed or disciplined for corruption (GRI 205-3)

 

No.

 

0

 

N.A.

 

–

Thereof incidents when contacts with business partners were terminated or not renewed due to violations related to corruption (GRI 205-3)

 

No.

 

0

 

0

 

–

Total number of public legal cases regarding corruption brought against the organization or its employees during the reporting period (GRI 205-3)

 

No.

 

0

 

0

 

–

*

Legal actions for anti-competitive behavior, anti-trust, and monopoly practices

 

 

Unit

 

2023 *

 

2022

 

YOY

Number of legal actions pending or completed during the reporting period regarding anti-competitive behavior and violations of anti-trust and monopoly legislation in which the organization has been identified as a participant (GRI 206-1)

 

No.

 

0

 

0

 

–

*

Training on anti-corruption

2023

 

America

 

Europe

 

Rest of World

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Governance body members 1 that have received training on anti-corruption (No. and %) (GRI 205-2)

No.

 

31

%

 

91.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees that have received training on anti-corruption, broken down by employee category and region (%) (GRI 205-2e)

Manufacturing indirect 2

 

72

 

42

 

63

 

51

Administration 3

 

68

 

67

 

91

 

79

Total

 

68

 

60

 

87

 

65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees that have received training on anti-corruption, broken down by employee category and region (No.) (GRI 205-2e)

Manufacturing indirect 2

 

149

 

256

 

40

 

445

Administration 3

 

628

 

1,090

 

314

 

2,032

Total

 

777

 

1,346

 

354

 

2,477

1

Governance body members include Board members of Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG and all subsidiaries.

2

Manufacturing indirect includes all employees in the following functions: Purchasing and Ordering, Production Management, Scheduling and Planning, Co-packaging and Co-manufacturing, Intercompany.

3

Administration includes all employees in the following functions: Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, IT, General Services, Salesforce, Research and Development (R&D), and all others.

Human rights

Reduction of the risk of child labor

 

 

Unit

 

2023

 

2022

 

YOY

Cocoa volume from child labor risk countries where a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) rollout started or is implemented 1

 

%

 

66.1

 

56.6

 

+9.5pp

Farming households in risk countries covered by a CLMRS 2

 

No.

 

88,200

 

88,000

 

+0%

Unannounced child labor focused monitoring visits conducted 2

 

No.

 

16,200

 

13,700

 

+18%

School facilities built or renovated since start of Farming Program 2

 

No.

 

50

 

45 3

 

+11%

Children benefitting from school refurbishments through Farming Program 2

 

No.

 

9,700

 

8,100 3

 

+20%

1

For volumes sourced through the Farming Program, determination of the roll-out or implementation of a CLMRS is based on supplier data demonstrating evidence of any of the following: household and community risk assessments, unannounced child labor focused monitoring visits and/or training on good social practices conducted. Volumes sourced through other sustainability programs are included so long as the program criteria require a CLMRS. Volumes of unknown origins are allocated to Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire and classified as noncompliant.

2

Data collection period based on the cocoa reporting year October 2022 to September 2023

3

Restated due to improved data validation process