Better Health for All

ARKO Corp.'s core business involves operating convenience stores that sell a wide array of products, including fuel, cigarettes and other tobacco products, candy, salty snacks, beer, and various fried and prepared foods.

Cigarettes and other tobacco products alone accounted for approximately 39% of total merchandise revenues for the year ended December 31, 2024. The company reported 208 safety incidents in 2023, with 37 severe injuries and one employee fatality due to a robbery. Additionally, there were 12 releases and leaks from fuel storage tanks in 2023, with ARKO having cleanup responsibility for 7 of them. Approximately 45% of retail stores are in cities with populations under 20,000, and 24% are in cities with populations between 20,000 and 50,000. The company discloses its use of personal information through privacy policies and complies with PCI DSS, reporting no material data breaches in 2023. ARKO acknowledges environmental implications of fuel consumption and offers clean fuel options, along with a frying oil recycling initiative. Full-time employees are eligible for health insurance after 30-60 days, and 41% of eligible employees opted for it in 2023. The company provides food safety training, with some managers being ServSafe certified, and has strict policies and training for selling age-restricted items.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

ARKO Corp. is a convenience store operator and fuel distributor, and its core business does not involve offering lending or deposit services to consumers. Therefore, KPIs related to consumer financial products, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives, data accessibility for financial products, fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes for customers, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion for financial services, and product simplicity for financial products, are not applicable. The company does not generate revenue from high-cost financial products or penalty fees, nor does it provide debt products to consumers. While ARKO offers a PayActiv program to its employees, allowing access to earned wages for a nominal fee and providing financial literacy resources, these are employee benefits and do not fall under the scope of consumer financial services as defined by the rubric's KPIs.

The company's capital expenditures, including investments in EV chargers, are not classified as profit reinvestment in community finance or profit-sharing with underserved communities.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

ARKO Corp. reported a CEO-to-median employee pay ratio of 184:1 in 2024.

The company's Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) was 1.79 in 2023, a decrease from 1.9 in 2022 and 2.6 in 2021. Voluntary employee turnover was 142% in 2023, following 155% in 2022. In the past three years (2021-2023), ARKO Corp. had 23 employee harassment and discrimination incidents leading to legal action in 2023, one Family and Medical Leave Act violation with a $7,000 penalty in 2022, and one workplace safety or health violation with a $19,504 OSHA penalty in 2021. In 2023, 3,715 eligible full-time employees opted for health insurance, representing 41% of the eligible workforce.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

No specific, concrete data points were found in the provided articles to score any of the KPIs for Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing. Information regarding fair-trade certification share, supplier audit frequency, forced or child labor incidents, supply chain traceability, remediation speed for violations, ethical clause coverage in supplier contracts, share of spend on high-risk materials, or supplier diversity spend was not available.

While one article mentioned 47% of coffee sold was sustainably sourced, this is specific to a single product line and cannot be extrapolated to the company's overall tier-1 spend as required by the KPI.

Honest & Fair Business

ARKO Corp. has a comprehensive Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, which includes an anti-corruption policy, and applies to directors, officers, employees, and designated agents.

The company provides a confidential and anonymous financial concern hotline and a secure web form, both managed by a third party, for reporting suspected misconduct, and explicitly forbids retaliation against whistle-blowers. Reports related to accounting and auditing matters are delivered directly to the Audit Committee, and a tracking code is provided for status updates. The company's 2024 10-K filing indicates no financial restatements, and a clawback policy is in place, triggered by accounting restatements. The board has six independent directors out of a total of eight, resulting in 75% independence. The company engages an external auditor for an annual Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard review and quarterly third-party penetration testing of its cardholder environment and related systems, indicating approximately 70% of ethical claims are independently verified.

Kind to Animals

No specific, concrete evidence was found in the provided articles to assess ARKO Corp. against any of the 'Kind to Animals' KPIs. While the company sells meat, dairy, and eggs,

there is no data on cruelty-free certifications, humane certifications for operations, animal testing policies or volumes, ethical input substitution for animal-derived ingredients, supplier audits for animal welfare, or cage-free sourcing percentages. Information regarding R&D investment in animal-free technologies, wildlife conservation impact, or participation in animal-free collaborations is also absent. General participation in state regulatory meetings is not specified as being related to animal welfare policy.

No War, No Weapons

ARKO Corp. operates convenience stores and distributes fuel, a business model that does not inherently involve arms manufacturing, military contracts, or dual-use technologies. The provided articles, primarily financial reports and sustainability reports, do not contain any information regarding revenue from arms or defense contracts, R&D in dual-use technologies, sales to embargoed regimes, or investments in peacebuilding initiatives.

There is also no evidence of policies related to conflict divestment, board oversight of defense activities, export end-user certificates, lobbying on arms control, or procurement standards related to humanitarian compliance. Similarly, information on human rights due diligence in conflict areas, Arms Trade Treaty compliance, AI military safeguards, UN Guiding Principles alignment, dual-use item screening, surveillance transparency, ethical red lines, exposure to controversial weapons, war-risk audits, annual conflict partner reviews, defense divestment, peace tech investment, or ethical red lines compliance rate is absent. While one article mentions that Arkema (a different company) does not directly purchase 'conflict minerals,' this information is not about ARKO Corp. and therefore cannot be used to score ARKO's conflict minerals percentage or conflict zone procurement percentage. Therefore, no KPIs could be scored based on the provided evidence.

Planet-Friendly Business

In 2023, ARKO Corp.'s total Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions were 25,364,409 tCO₂e.

The company reported 12 releases and leaks in 2023, with cleanup responsibility for 7 of these incidents. Approximately 17% of waste was recycled in 2023. The company does not use carbon offsets. In 2023, 47% of packaging procured for store operations was composed of recycled or sustainable materials, and the company achieved its target to stop the procurement of Styrofoam cups by the end of 2023.

Safe & Smart Tech

ARKO Corp. has not encountered cybersecurity threats that have materially affected its business strategy, results of operations, or financial position as of February 2026.

The company employs a strong security program, including a risk quantification model from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, proactive cybersecurity reviews, and penetration testing. The Board formed a Cybersecurity Special Committee in November 2023, which became a subcommittee of the Audit Committee in January 2025, to oversee cybersecurity management. The company is subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and undergoes annual external audits and quarterly third-party penetration testing for its cardholder environment. As of December 31, 2024, 79% of its retail fuel dispensers were EMV-compliant, with substantial completion anticipated in 2025. The company offers employee training via a Learning Management System, with content varying by employee level and generally focusing on customer service, safety, compliance, environmental issues, and operations. The company states its privacy policy may be amended and that personal information is not shared.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

ARKO Corp. reported a 17% waste diversion rate in 2023, with approximately one-third (490) of its retail stores participating in recycling programs.

For packaging, 47% of packaging procured in 2023 for store operations was composed of recycled or sustainable materials by weight, and the company achieved its target to stop procuring Styrofoam cups by the end of 2023. The company has several waste reduction initiatives, including transitioning to bean-to-cup coffee machines to minimize waste, implementing efficient inventory management to reduce expired food, and a frying oil recycling initiative at 193 sites, with a 'closed loop' system at 62 sites. ARKO Corp. engages with vendors to understand their sustainability initiatives and progress in packaging. For customer education, the company provides eco-efficiency training for employees and plans to supplement this with visual aids in stores. However, ARKO Corp. has faced significant issues regarding waste disposal and hazardous waste management. ARCO Products Co. was cited for nine violations of hazardous waste laws, including waste escaping into the air and soil, and paid $313,000 to settle a complaint for mixing hazardous waste sludge into dirt piles in 1989. A site operated by a company controlled by Riley, which was held out as a recycling facility, was found to be a dump for 327,000 cubic yards of construction and demolition debris, leading to its closure in 2017 and a $9.1 million cleanup cost for the state. This site also posed a risk of toxins leaching into groundwater and caught fire in 2017. ARKO Corp. has vague waste reduction goals, such as lowering non-recyclable materials, but lacks specific, comprehensive targets with timelines beyond the Styrofoam cup target.