We reviewed the key corporate responsibility topics reported publicly by our peers and assessed issues that are trending in the media and with Campbell’s investors, customers, suppliers, and NGO partners. From this research, we added five new topics to our list: Environmental Compliance, Employee Health and Wellness, Employee Engagement, Biodiversity, and Farmer Livelihoods. We also removed two, Women’s Empowerment and Responsible Use of Technology, as we felt they were embedded in other topics.

We surveyed internal and external stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, retail customers, investors, and NGOs. The survey asked respondents to rate 28 economic, social, and environmental topics across two key dimensions—importance to them as a Campbell’s stakeholder and magnitude of impact on the economy, society or the environment. We received over 700 responses in total with employees accounting for 91% of responses.

The results of the assessment were shared with key internal stakeholders and validated against the results of the research. We did see significant shifts in the rating of select topics compared to our last assessment in fiscal 2019, including two of the newly added issues ranking in the top six.

We track our commitments, some externally and some only internally, and we report progress regularly to our leadership team and twice per year to the Governance Committee of our Board of Directors. Responsibility for making progress on ESG issues depends on many teams across the company. We work collaboratively to hold ourselves accountable to our plans, share updates across the organization, and communicate opportunities with relevant teams to accelerate positive impact.