Food & Beverages Impact Report - Food & Beverage Retail Edition

In our latest quarterly review of corporate sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities, we find that extreme weather events and industrial actions are increasingly disrupting food retail supply chains, with recent strikes at Woolworths Group resulting in approximately $50 million in lost sales. The report highlights how leading companies are enhancing ESG performance through blockchain and AI technologies, with Chipotle Mexican Grill investing in Lumachain, an AI-powered platform providing real-time data on product conditions throughout the value chain, while Sysco Corporation implements advanced traceability measures for food safety and transparency.

This report analyses thousands of sustainability disclosures from 20 leading entities in the industry, including McDonald's, Starbucks and Kroger. Published in Q225 as part of a quarterly series, it also includes disclosures from Global South entities like Yum China Holdings, Jollibee Foods Corp and Americana Restaurants International. The global nature of this analysis makes it an ideal source of external evidence for sustainability accounting and disclosure, with critical insights into topics of financial materiality and double materiality across food retail operations and supply chains.