CARR'S GROUP PLC.
CARR.LSE | Manufacture of prepared animal feeds
Carr's Group PLC is a United Kingdom-based company operating in the agriculture and engineering sectors. In agriculture, the company manufactures and supplies animal feed blocks, nutrition supplements, and associated products for livestock. It also provides agricultural supplies and services to farm...Show More
Better Health for All
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The company's core agricultural products, livestock supplements, are designed to improve animal health and performance on-farm
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, with development grounded in extensive university-led research
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. However, the 'Better Health for All' value is defined in the context of human health. As the company's primary products do not directly impact human health, their effect is considered neutral within this human-centric framework. No information is provided regarding the human health impact of the engineering division.
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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Carr's Group PLC operates in the agriculture and engineering sectors
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. The provided articles contain no evidence that the company offers lending, deposit, or other financial services to consumers or businesses. The KPIs for 'Fair Money & Economic Opportunity' are designed to assess financial institutions or companies engaged in lending, insuring, moving, or storing money. As there is no specific, concrete data point in the articles related to any of these financial activities, all KPIs are omitted.
Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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No specific, quantitative data points were found in the provided articles for any of the KPIs related to Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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. This includes living wage coverage, CEO median pay ratio, collective bargaining share, safety incident rate, pay equity ratio, worker engagement score, turnover rate, labor violation incidents, insecure contract share, or health insurance coverage
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. mentions a shareholder vote on the Directors' Remuneration Policy
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but does not provide the actual CEO median pay ratio or other relevant compensation details.
Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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No specific quantitative data was provided across the articles to score the company against the defined KPIs for Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing. While the company has a Code of Ethics
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, a Human Rights & Standards Policy
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, and requires suppliers to meet these as part of Service Level Agreements
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and sign up to SEDEX
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, no percentages were given for ethical clause coverage, fair-trade certified spend, or supply chain traceability. There was also no specific data on audit frequency, remediation speed, or the number of substantiated forced or child labour incidents.
Honest & Fair Business
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No direct evidence was found in the provided articles to assess Carr's Group PLC (CARR.LSE) against the specified KPIs for the 'Honest & Fair Business' ethical value. The articles primarily detail regulatory fines and breaches of independence requirements imposed on KPMG and its audit partner, Nick Plumb, related to their audit of Carr's Group plc for the financial year ended August 28, 2021
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. These actions and fines were against the auditor, not Carr's Group PLC itself. KPMG was fined £690,625 in FY21
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. Nick Plumb, the audit partner, was fined £38,675 in FY21
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. These fines were related to breaches of independence requirements in the FY21 Statutory Audit of Carr’s Group plc
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. Information regarding Carr's Group's own regulatory fines, transparency index scores, whistleblower policies, financial restatements, audit coverage, ESG controversy index, complaint resolution time, board conflict of interest, anti-corruption policies, or third-party verification of ethical claims was not provided.
Kind to Animals
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No specific, measurable data points were found in the provided articles to assess Carr's Group PLC against the defined KPIs for the 'Kind to Animals' ethical value. The company manufactures and supplies animal feed blocks and supplements for livestock
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, and its engineering division was divested in April 2025.
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While articles mention the company's products enhance animal welfare and support sustainable practices
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,
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, there is no evidence of the company's direct involvement in animal agriculture operations, animal testing, or specific conservation initiatives with measurable outcomes. Consequently, there is no data to score KPIs such as cruelty-free certifications, ethical input substitution, supplier welfare audits, or animal testing policies and volumes.
No War, No Weapons
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Carr's Group PLC completed the sale of its Engineering Division, which previously designed, manufactured, and supplied specialist equipment for the defense sector.
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This means the company no longer has defense-related activities in its core business, nor does it develop or sell dual-use products. As a result of the 100% divestment of its defense assets, there are no defense assets left to divest, no defense business for the board to oversee, and no exposure to controversial weapons through this divested segment.
Planet-Friendly Business
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The provided articles offer no specific, quantitative evidence that directly matches the Planet-Friendly Business rubric's KPIs. Mentions such as 'collaborative efforts in tracking Scope 3 emissions,'
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'lowering livestock emissions,'
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'improve resource efficiency,'
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'source responsibly,'
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and 'operate with integrity'
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are too general or lack the specific numerical data required to score against the rubric's detailed metrics. The stated 'Aiming for Net Zero by 2050'
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does not precisely align with any of the defined quantitative thresholds for the 'net_zero_target_year' KPI, which requires an exact match or a range. Similarly, a 'target of 3.4% energy reduction year on year'
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is a reduction target, not a percentage of renewable energy consumed, and thus cannot be scored against 'pct_renewable_energy'.
Respect for Cultures & Communities
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The company has no reported cultural appropriation incidents. There is no evidence of cultural site disruptions, and no cultural incident response framework is mentioned. FPIC processes are not applicable based on the provided information. The company supports local communities and agricultural-related charities, such as the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs
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, the Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution
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, the Cumbria Community Foundation
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, and Carlisle Youth Zone
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, but there is no specific focus or percentage of revenue donated to cultural heritage organizations.
Safe & Smart Tech
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The company demonstrates good data minimization practices for its website analytics. The privacy notice for Carrs MSM Wälischmiller, a division of Carr's Group, states that Google Analytics cookies collect information anonymously, and personally identifiable data like name, IP address, or email is explicitly not passed to Google
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. Retention periods for these cookies are limited, with the longest expiring after two years
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. No other specific, concrete data points were found for other KPIs related to safe and smart technology practices.
Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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The company has implemented several waste reduction initiatives, including a water conservation project at three US plants that saved 16.4 million liters in a year.
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Projects are underway to move to LED lighting across all businesses, with many sites completed.
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Green Teams have been established across all sites to initiate and drive local initiatives.
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The company is also exploring wind/solar options across its sites
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and tracks and improves site performance on waste.
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For hazardous waste, the company uses precision engineered containers for storing and transporting nuclear waste
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and is developing Hot Isostatic Pressing technology to compress and seal large volumes of nuclear waste.
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The company has a goal to operate responsibly and minimize adverse impacts,
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but it is still in the process of establishing a clear governance framework and undertaking thorough data reviews to set realistic quantitative targets in the years ahead.
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