Content Index

G3 Content Index

Strategy and Analysis

Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization

Letter From CEO

Description of key impacts, risks and opportunities.

Letter From CEO

Organizational Profile

Name of the organization.

Company Profile

Primary brands, products and/or services.

Company Profile

Operational structure of the organization, including main divisions, operating companies, subsidiaries and joint ventures.

Company Profile

Location of organization's headquarters.

Company Profile

Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries with either major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report.

Company Profile

Nature of ownership and legal form.

Company Profile

Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers/beneficiaries).

Company Profile

Scale of the reporting organization.

Company Profile

Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure or ownership.

Company Profile

Awards received in the reporting period.

Company Profile

Report Parameters

Reporting period (e.g., fiscal/calendar year) for information provided.

Scope of Report

Date of most recent previous report (if any).

Scope of Report

Reporting cycle (annual, biennial, etc.).

Scope of Report

Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.

Scope of Report

Process for defining report content.

Scope of Report

Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ventures, suppliers).

Scope of Report

State any specific limitations on the scope or boundary of the report (see completeness principle for explanation of scope).

Scope of Report

Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period and/or between organizations.

Scope of Report

Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations, including assumptions and techniques underlying estimations applied to the compilation of the Indicators and other information in the report. Explain any decisions not to apply, or to substantially diverge from, the GRI Indicator Protocols.

Scope of Report

Explanation of the effect of any restatements of information provided in earlier reports and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g.,mergers/acquisitions, change of base years/periods, nature of business, measurement methods).

Scope of Report

Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary or measurement methods applied in the report.

Scope of Report

Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report.

Content Index

Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report.

About This Report

Governance, Communities, and Engagement

Governance structure of the organization, including committees under the highest governance body responsible for specific tasks, such as setting strategy or organizational oversight.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

For organizations that have a unitary board structure, state the number of members of the highest governance body that are independent and/or nonexecutive members.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations or direction to the highest governance body.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

Linkage between compensation for members of the highest governance body, senior managers and executives (including departure arrangements), and the organization's performance (including social and environmental performance).

Ethics and Conduct

Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

Process for determining the qualifications and expertise of the members of the highest governance body for guiding the organization's strategy on economic, environmental and social topics.

Ethics and Conduct

HormelFoods.com

Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes of conduct and principles relevant to economic, environmental and social performance and the status of their implementation.

Company Profile

Ethics and Conduct

Procedures of the highest governance body for overseeing the organization's identification and management of economic, environmental and social performance, including relevant risks and opportunities and adherence or compliance with internationally agreed standards, codes of conduct and principles.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

HormelFoods.com

Processes for evaluating the highest governance body's own performance, particularly with respect to economic, environmental and social performance.

Board of Directors and Corporate Governance

HormelFoods.com

Externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or endorses.

Company Profile

Memberships in associations (such as industry associations) and/or national/international advocacy organizations in which the organization: 

• Has positions in governance bodies;
•  Participates in projects or committees; 
•  Provides substantive funding beyond routine membership dues; or 
•  Views membership as strategic.

Company Profile

List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization.

Scope of Report

Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage.

Scope of Report

Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group.

Scope of Report

Key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement and how the organization has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting.

Scope of Report

Economic Performance Indicators

Direct economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations and other community investments, retained earnings and payments to capital providers and governments.

Performance

Charitable Contributions

Coverage of the organization's defined benefit plan obligations.

Benefits

Range of ratios of standard entry level wage compared to local minimum wage at significant locations of operation.

Benefits

Policy, practices and proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation.

Turkeys

Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at significant locations of operation.

People

Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind, or pro bono engagement.

Philanthropy

Charitable Contributions

Understanding and describing significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts.

Turkeys

Environmental

Materials used by weight or volume.

Packaging/Solid Waste

Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials.

Packaging/Solid Waste

Direct energy consumption by primary energy source.

Energy

Indirect energy consumption by primary source.

Energy

Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements.

Energy

Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives.

Energy

Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved.

Energy

Total water withdrawal by source.

Water

Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused.

Water

Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.

Air

Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.

Air

Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved.

Air

Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight.

Air

Total water discharge by quality and destination.

Water

Total weight of waste by type and disposal method.

Packaging/Solid Waste

Total number and volume of significant spills.

Environment

Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation.

Packaging/Solid Waste

Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category.

Packaging/Solid Waste

Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for noncompliance with environmental laws and regulations.

Environment

Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization's operations and transporting members of the workforce.

Air

Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work

Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region.

People

Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender and region.

People

Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations.

Benefits

Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.

People

Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management-worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs.

Safety

Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region.

Safety

Education, training, counseling, prevention and risk-control programs in place to assist workforce members, their families or community members regarding serious diseases.

Benefits

Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category.

Professional Development

Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings.

Diversity

Benefits

Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews.

Professional Development

Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership and other indicators of diversity.

Diversity

Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category.

Benefits

Social: Human Rights

Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained.

Ethics & Conduct

Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labor, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of child labor.

People

Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labor, and measures to contribute to the elimination of forced or compulsory labor.

People

Social: Society

Percentage and total number of business units analyzed for risks related to corruption.

Ethics & Conduct

Percentage of employees trained in organization's anti-corruption policies and procedures.

Ethics & Conduct

Monetary value of significant fines and total number of nonmonetary sanctions for noncompliance with laws and regulations.

Environment

Social: Product Responsibility

Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement, and percentage of significant products and services categories subject to such procedures.

Innovation

Total number of incidents of noncompliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning health and safety impacts of products and services during their life cycle, by type of outcomes.

Food Quality & Innovation

Healthy Options

Total number of incidents of noncompliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship by type of outcomes.

Healthy Options

Monetary value of significant fines for noncompliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services.

Food Quality & Innovation

Practices related to customer satisfaction, including results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction.

Healthy Options

Programs for adherence to laws, standards and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

Healthy Options