Lindt & Sprungli Australia

Rank a Brand searches the websites of brands for the answers to carefully targeted questions. From this they calculate sustainability scores based on the themes of environment, climate, labor issues, and transparency. Brands owned by this company received an 'E', the lowest possible score.
[Source 2017][More on Sustainability Reporting]

Overall C- rating at Free2Work.org, which rates companies on their efforts to address forced and child labour, using four main categories: policies, monitoring, transparency, and worker rights. Lindt received an 'F' (lowest possible score) on monitoring and workers rights.
[Source 2015][More on Workers Rights]

This 2014 report by Friends of the Earth documents a tenfold increase in unregulated, unlabeled "nanofood" products on the American market since 2008. The report named this company among those with products containing unlabeled nano-ingredients. These nanomaterials differ significantly from larger particles of the same chemical composition, and new studies are adding to a growing body of scientific evidence indicating they may be more toxic to humans and the environment.
[Source 2014][More on Product Safety]