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NGOs and industry partners
We partner with many NGOs, other businesses and specialist organisations to learn from their insights and address Responsible Business challenges. Organisations we work with include: Aldersgate Group, Bioregional, Business Disability Forum, Fondation Abbé Pierre, FSC, Green Alliance, Rainforest Alliance – Forest Allies, Shelter, Slave Free Alliance, Business Ambition for 1.5, Better Retail Better world, British Retail Consortium, Race to Zero Breakthroughs – Retail and Stonewall.
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We participate in many external benchmarks and indices. In 2020/21, these included:
MSCI-ESG
We received a AAA ESG rating for our ability to manage ESG issues (2019/20: AAA). This is the highest possible score, achieved by 3% of companies.
ISS ESG
We received a corporate rating of B- (good) (2019/20: B-).
Sustainalytics
We scored 9.7 (negligible risk). We rank 1st out of 40 in home improvement retail and 2nd out of 428 in the wider retailing sector
CDP Climate Change
We disclosed our climate change performance through CDP Climate Change and received a rating of A- (2019/20: A-). This puts us in the leadership category, among the top 28% of companies in our sector globally.
CDP Forests
We disclosed our performance through CDP Forest and received a rating of B in relation to timber (2019/20: not scored). We scored D in relation to cattle products (2019/20: not scored) and expect to see an improvement in this score as we progress our work on leather sourcing.
Workforce Disclosure Initiative
We received a score of 66%, above the sector average of 60%.
FTSE4Good Index
We are listed in this index with a rating of 4.4 out of 5 (strong performance) (2019/20: 4.4). This puts us in the 95th percentile.
Forest 500 (Global Canopy Programme)
Identifies and ranks the most influential companies and institutions in the forest risk commodity supply chain. We ranked 11th out of 67 retailers with a score of 40%.
