Food and beverage
Explore how the largest multi-national agri-food companies are addressing forced labour risks across their supply chains.
2023 KnowTheChain Food & Beverage Benchmark
KnowTheChain assessed the world's 60 largest Food & Beverage companies & found the largest companies in the sector are failing to tackle forced labour risks in their supply chains, with an average score of just 16/100. After six years of benchmarking – progress is stagnating in the sector which is cause for concern, especially against the backdrop of current geo-political and climate crises.
Benchmark findings reports
2023 KnowTheChain Food & Beverage Benchmark
KnowTheChain assessed the world's 60 largest Food & Beverage companies & found the largest companies in the sector are failing to tackle forced labour risks in their supply chains, with an average score of just 16/100. After six years of benchmarking – progress is stagnating in the sector which is cause for concern, especially against the backdrop of current geo-political and climate crises.
2020 KnowTheChain Food & Beverage Benchmark
KnowTheChain assessed the 43 largest global food and beverage companies on their efforts to address forced labour risks in supply chains.
2018 KnowTheChain Food & Beverage Benchmark
To better understand how companies are addressing the risk of forced labour occurring in their supply chains, KnowTheChain evaluated 38 of the largest global food and beverage companies on the forced labour policies and procedures that each company has in place.
2016 KnowTheChain Food & Beverage Benchmark
Food and beverage companies demonstrate a growing awareness and commitment to addressing forced labour, but need to particularly adapt their traceability, purchasing, and recruitment policies and practices to better understand and address the specific risks inherent to their sector.