Our Group Sustainability Reporting is aligned to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
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We report to a number of sustainability indices including CDP, EcoVadis, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and The UN Global Compact. View our CDP Climate Change Report for 2023 here.
The data relates to all operating countries.
PREPARING OUR PEOPLE | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
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Improvement in employee retention rate Total employees |
-3% 0% -2% |
-3% 5% -5% |
-8% 4% -3% |
Unit managers trained through Leadership in Action development programme * | 2,018 | 1,112 | 187 |
* Unit Manager training numbers have been rebased to report on completed training within the Company’s financial year, to be aligned with other metrics.
CREATING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
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Employee category - female representation, % of total Compass Group Board |
38% |
33% |
36% |
Type of contract - female representation, % of total Permanent |
56% |
57% |
57% |
Leavers - female representation, % of total | 56% | 56% | 56% |
ENGAGING OUR PEOPLE | 2023 | 2022 | 20221 |
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Total number of cases reported by employees globally, via Speak Up | 4,130 | 3,176 | 3,195 |
Global engagement survey participation * | 63% | 54% | 56% |
* Participation of pulse and surveys across the globe.
The data relates to all operating countries.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
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Global lost time incident frequency rate (LTIFR) | 1.98 | 2.27 | 2.33 |
Total number of lost time incidents (LTI) | 1,837 | 2,005 | 1,799 |
Global Food Safety Incident Rate (FSIR) | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.20 |
Total number of food incidents (FSIs) | 1,078 | 849 | 859 |
Global total recordable incident frequency rate (TRIFR) | 9.65 | 8.88 | 7.97 |
Total number of recordable incidents (TRIs) | 8,953 | 7,842 | 7,068 |
Motor Vehicle Collision Rate (MVCR) | 2.68 | 2.02 | 1.81 |
To calculate our safety indicators, we used the following formulas:
LTIFR = number of lost time incidents / number of hours worked (millions)
TRIFR = number of recordable incidents / number of hours worked (millions)
FSIR = number of food safety incidents / cost of food (£millions)
MVCR = number of motor vehicle collisions / distance travelled (km)
Data represents our Top 25 operating countries, together accounting for 97% of Group underlying revenues.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
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% of sites with at least one healthy meal choice | 93% | 90% | 87% |
We are monitoring the energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions of our owned and operated sites across 28 countries which represent 98% of Group underlying revenue.
2023 | 2022* | |||
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Scope 1 and 2 | UK and Offshore |
Global | UK and Offshore |
Global |
Scope 1 - Emissions from the combustion of fuel or the operation of any facility including fugitive emissions from refrigerants use / tCO2e | 1,934 | 147,282 | 3,881 | 137,985 |
Scope 2 – Emissions resulting from the purchase of electricity, heat, steam of cooling (location based)/tCO2e | 2,497 | 49,714 | 2,385 | 46,807 |
Scope 2 – Emissions resulting from the purchase of electricity, heat, steam or cooling (market based)/tCO2e | 268 | 50,104 | 1,047 | 47,071 |
Total gross emissions (location based) / tCO2e | 4,431 | 196,996 | 6,266 | 184,792 |
tCO2e per million £ turnover | 1.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 7.3 |
Energy | ||||
Energy consumption used to calculate above emissions / kWh | 21,194,715 | 786,600,491 | 31,837,141 |
737,653,482 |
* 2022 figures restated to correct an error in the calculation of Scope 1 emissions in the US. The restatement increases global Scope 1 emissions and total gross emissions by 37,985 eCO2e, energy consumption by 161,858,604 kWh and tCO2e per million £ turnover (GHG intensity ratio) by 1.5. The GHG intensity ratio presented on page 7 of the 2023 Annual Report for 2020 and 2021 has also been restated to increase tCO2e/£m by 2.0 and 1.8 to 9.5 and 9.0, respectively.
To calculate our Group emissions, we have used the main requirements of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard along with the UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2023. tCO2e per million turnover is calculated by dividing our total gross emissions (location based) by underlying revenue for the countries monitored. Energy and GHG emission data represented in the table above has been externally verified by a third party.
Greenhouse gas emissions - Scope 3 * | 2019 | 2022 |
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Scope 3 categories/ tCO2e | ||
1. Purchased Goods & Services 2. Capital Goods 3. Fuel- and energy-related activities 4. Upstream transportation & distribution 5. Waste generated in operations 6. Business Travel 7. Employee Commuting 8. Upstream Leased Assets 9. Downstream Transportation & Distribution 11. Use of Sold Products 12. End-of-life treatment of sold products 15. Investments |
9,924,859 62,320 45,167 95,594 44,417 61,369 374,238 1,568,554 - - - - |
6,939,965 145,195 56,486 20,370 59,681 55,052 470,134 - 601 2,842,461 76,786 17,294 |
Total Scope 3 footprint /tCO2e | 12,176,517 | 10,684,023 |
* Our total Scope 3 emissions for FY2022 were calculated on our top four markets – representing 78% of our global revenues – using a hybrid volume and spend approach and extrapolated to our smaller markets. Improvement in data quality has resulted in more granular estimates of food-related emissions and lower emissions estimates for FY2022 and helped improving data accuracy across categories.
The percentage is calculated using data from circa 2,650 sites recording food waste in 28 countries. The reduction is calculated against a baseline for each site.
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |
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% reduction of food waste on sites recording food waste | 28% |
28% | N/A |
The data relates to our Top 25 operating countries, representing 97% of Group revenues, unless otherwise stated.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
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Certified sustainable palm oil of total palm oil * | 95% |
73% | 72% |
Sustainable fish and seafood, of total fish and seafood spend Top 25 countries: |
53% |
51% |
51% |
Cage free eggs of total eggs Shell eggs |
32% |
31% |
25% |
Certified ethically traded coffee and tea, of total coffee and tea spend | 46% | 46% | 37% |
* Palm oil data relates to all operating countries.