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Investors help push Tesco to increase healthy food sales May 11 , 2021 A group of investors who had pressured Tesco to provide higher sales of healthy food got their wish this week as the UK retailer announced plans to improve nutritious options in its stores. Tesco, which had committed to lifting sales of healthy products to 65% at UK stores, promised to carry the commitment to its Booker and Central European businesses, which led to Share Action’s 100-plus investors effectively dropping a proposed resolution at its annual general meeting, according to a Financial Times report. “Investors are increasingly recognizing the importance of people’s health, including the role that supermarkets play in shaping our diets,” Simon Rawson, Director of Corporate Engagement at ShareAction, said. ....
Tesco is extending its new health strategy across its wider group, including Booker. Booker’s new health commitments will focus on providing a greater ....
By Jon Hay 05 May 2021 A small band of committed investors in Tesco has achieved spectacular success with a shareholder motion on healthy food. This should embolden investors to hold issuers to account on a wider range of social matters and also contains a deeper lesson about how markets bring about change. To listen to some in the capital markets, environmental, social and governance investing is all about numbers. Investors, they argue, need to build up better data about companies’ and governments’ characteristics, feed this into their valuation models, and slowly but surely, money will migrate to better ESG performers, lowering their cost of capital. ....
What constitutes best practice when it comes to engagement? Stewardship and engagement at the forefront of investors’ minds as this year’s proxy voting season draws nearer Stewardship and engagement will be at the forefront of ESG investors’ minds this year, with regulation such as the new UK Stewardship Code having taken effect, and this year’s proxy voting season drawing closer. And onlookers would say rightly so, as shown by last year’s Boohoo scandal where a number of ethical funds were exposed as having significant allocations to the fast fashion brand, and more recently the holdings in some ‘responsibly invested’ funds of Compass Group, the owner of Chartwells, which came under fire for providing ‘unacceptable’ school meals. ....