Investor commitment to improve nutrition disclosures from food companies
Description
As institutional investors, we acknowledge the global nutrition crisis. Poor diets provide inadequate nutrition and drive high levels of death and preventable non-communicable diseases. The high individual, societal and economic costs of poor diets and nutrition impact on our holdings, portfolios and asset values in the short, medium and long term, both in the food and beverage sector and more widely.
We call on all food and beverage companies to commit to disclose the percentage of annual healthy sales relative to unhealthy sales using one or more of the following 3 Nutrient Profiling Models (NPMs) (HealthStar Rating, UK NPM, NutriScore)2.
Understanding the growing impacts of malnutrition, we recognize the need to scrutinize how well food and beverage companies manage the related risks and opportunities and we recognize our role in accelerating private sector action in this area.
We commit to using the framework of the Investor Expectations on Nutrition, Diets and Health, where applicable and as appropriate to our style of responsible investment, in our research and engagement with boards and management. We will tailor the application of the Expectations to each company's business model, exposure to emerging trends and their impacts.
We, as a group, commit to engaging directly with all 23 listed food and beverage companies in the ATNi Global Index 2024 as appropriate, and/or to require the fund managers who invest on our behalf to do so, using these Investor Expectations.
We will disclose certain information about our engagement within, for example, our standard quarterly or annual stewardship or engagement reports or on our websites, and through reports that ATNi will publish on signatory engagement.
We will use the insights we generate from our engagement to inform our investment research and, potentially, our investment decisions.
As of March 7th 2025, the following institutional investors, representing $1.2 trillion in assets under management have agreed to engage with companies from among the 23 listed companies in ATNi's Global Index 2024:
1. Achmea IM
2. Trinity Health
3. Globalance
4. Candriam
5. Sanso Longchamp
6. Mercy Investments
7. Pictet
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | The number of listed companies assessed in ATNi's 2024 Global Index that disclose the % of sales value derived from healthier products, using one of the NPMs from the 2024 NPM alignment project. |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Number of companies disclosing the percentage of their annual sales value relative to an internationally recognised Nutrient Profiling Model | February 2025 |
| Target | 4 Number of companies disclosing the percentage of their annual sales value relative to an internationally recognised Nutrient Profiling Model | July 2026 |
