Our Sustainability Priority

Days Group Company Limited aims to become a leading African commodities trading and financial advisory firm, promoting sustainable development across the continent. The company's primary business encompasses warehousing, grain procurement, and brokering agricultural commodities for clients within Ghana, the broader region, and globally.

Days Group is strategically positioned to spearhead growth in Ghana's agricultural commodity sector, with a focus on exports, imports, real estate, commodity brokering, and marketing. The company is committed to fostering sustainable trade by collaborating with organizations within Ghana, Africa, and worldwide. Their mission is to reimagine global agriculture through operational excellence, driving material impact by improving farmer livelihoods, enhancing community well-being, and regenerating the living world. Days Group recognizes that success is collective, which is why they have set ambitious goals, with sustainability as a key enabler of their Strategic Plan - it's a way of doing business and aligns with consumer expectations. By leveraging their expertise and network, Days Group Company Limited strives to be a market leader, promoting Africa's agricultural potential while prioritizing ethical practices, environmental stewardship, and shared prosperity across their value chain.

Days Group Company Limited's sustainability journey is a continuous endeavor aimed at strengthening the company while positively impacting the people, communities, and environment it operates in. The company is guided by its Sustainability Framework, which focuses its efforts and serves as a platform to share accomplishments, learnings, and areas for further progress. A revolutionary offering from Days Group is its sustainability insights platform for agricultural supply chains, "At Source." This platform provides customers with a comprehensive view across their supply chain sustainability parameters, along with insights on how to influence these elements for improvement. The end-to-end metrics, action plans, and corresponding narratives offered by At Source enable customers to meet sustainability requirements, build brand trust and confidence, report on sustainability initiatives, and transform their supply chains towards greater sustainability. Days Group's commitment to sustainability is a holistic approach that seeks to create shared value for the company, its stakeholders, and the broader ecosystem in which it operates. By leveraging its expertise and innovative solutions like At Source, the company aims to drive positive change and contribute to a more sustainable future for the agricultural sector and beyond.

Priority

Days Group Company Limited recognizes that becoming a better company is intrinsically linked to making a positive impact on the world. The company's ability to drive positive change in the Ghanaian trade market and globally stems from the focus and scope of its businesses, which encounter some of the largest and most complex challenges facing our world today. From poverty and food insecurity to climate change and biodiversity loss, sustainable agricultural practices and innovative trade solutions hold immense potential to address these pressing issues. Days Group's success in tackling these challenges is evidenced by the profitability and resilience of the company, achieved through building long-term relationships with customers and suppliers, diversifying financial resources, innovating, and discovering new opportunities for collaboration.

By creating value across stakeholders, Days Group strengthens its business proposition and capacity to deliver long-term results. The company works collaboratively with customers, farmers, communities, peers, civil society organizations, financial institutions, foundations, shareholders, employees, and many other organizations. These partnerships and programs greatly extend Days Group's reach while improving its chances for success in four priority areas: 1. Improving farmer livelihoods 2. Increasing community well-being 3. Regenerating the living world 4. Promoting sustainable trade practices Through these collaborative efforts, Days Group Company Limited aims to drive positive change, contribute to a better world, and enhance its capacity to create shared value for all stakeholders.

Innovative Solutions

Days Group Company Limited recognizes that reimagining global agriculture and trade systems requires harnessing technology, science, and fostering new ways of thinking to address the interconnected challenges outlined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Obtaining reliable and consistent data on the true sustainability impact of agricultural products is a significant challenge due to the fragmentation in global agricultural supply chains, particularly in emerging markets. Crops often change hands multiple times, from farmers in rural villages to various intermediaries, before reaching manufacturers like food companies, making traceability difficult. This lack of transparency makes it challenging for financial investors to trust and provide long-term support to buyers and marketers aiming to positively impact farmers. To address this, Days Group has developed a new set of tools to inform and plan social and environmental initiatives at the scale and urgency required to benefit customers.

The company's team has developed essential applications and partnered with others to better inform business decisions through greater insight into the long-term impact on social, environmental, and human indicators. A key innovation is the Integrated Impact Statement, a financial tool that provides a comprehensive view of sustainability factors. However, to reimagine at a larger scale, Days Group recognizes the need to support the innovations of others. The company is delighted to announce that applications are now open for potential investors, traders, security experts, and finance professionals to participate in the "Innovation in Food Security" program. This initiative aims to foster collaboration and drive transformative solutions for a more sustainable and secure food system. By leveraging technology, data-driven insights, and collaborative partnerships, Days Group Company Limited is committed to driving positive change and addressing the complex challenges facing global agriculture and trade systems, while creating shared value for all stakeholders.

Governance and Policies

The principles of openness, integrity, and accountability are indeed crucial pillars of effective corporate governance and ethical business practices. Here are the key points based on the information provided: - The company upholds the principles of openness (transparency), integrity, and accountability, along with a focus on strong financial performance, as the guiding tenets for how it operates. - The governance teams are responsible for implementing the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) Strategy, with the principles outlined in the Code of Corporate Governance and Code of Conduct.

- There is a two-tier governance structure: 1. The CR&S Executive Committee oversees the company's progress against the established standards. 2. The Board CR&S Committee monitors the Executive Committee's actions. - The Code of Conduct mandates that any employee who discovers unethical practices must report it without fear of reprisals or retaliation. This demonstrates a comprehensive approach to embedding ethical principles and corporate governance practices throughout the organization. The emphasis on transparency, integrity, accountability, and providing a safe channel for whistleblowing aligns with the core principles highlighted in the search results.

Grievance Mechanism

Our Grievance Procedure is designed to address breaches of relevant Days Group Policies or Codes, resulting in illegality, exploitation of local communities or workers employed by Days Group or a third-party supplier, or unacceptable practices in land use management as defined in the Days Living Landscapes Policy and the Days Supplier Code. It applies to all our upstream operations, supply chain infrastructure (processing plants, warehouses, and logistics hubs), and third-party suppliers.[1][2][3] Grievances can be submitted through the following channels:

- Address: [Address redacted for privacy] - Tel: +233 020 900 7181 - Email: daysgrouplimited2020@gmail.com, info@daysgrouplimited.com Emails should be clearly titled 'For Attention Of: Grievance Days Group Manager'. Grievances can also be addressed to the relevant Country Office as detailed on the location pages of the Days Group website. The grievance should include: - Your full name* - Name of your organization (if any) - Contact details (phone/fax/email/postal address) - Description of the grievance in detail - Evidence to support the grievance

*While grievances can be made anonymously, providing full contact details enables Days Group Limited to better understand and address the concern. A full copy of the Grievance Procedure is available on the Days Group website. ## Importance of Stakeholder Feedback We recognize that feedback and input from stakeholders is valuable because it helps to drive best practices, evaluate compliance of our suppliers, and increase transparency in our supply chains. The Grievance Procedure provides a structured channel for stakeholders to report concerns, enabling us to address issues promptly and uphold our commitment to ethical and responsible business practices.

Sustainability Reporting

Days Group Company Limited recognizes the importance of sustainability as a core enabler for delivering its Strategic Plan. The company reports on its sustainability goals in its Annual Reports, using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a guidance framework and incorporating stakeholder focus areas. Days Group adopts a Capitals approach in its reporting, covering Manufactured, Human, Social, Natural, Intangible, and Intellectual Capital. The Finance for Sustainability Function (F4S) has developed the Days Group Integrated Impact Statement (IIS), a tool for multi-capital accounting. In 2020, F4S developed the IIS for the import and export trade business to support cocoa sustainability strategy and real estate construction projects. The 2020 Annual Report presents a summary of insights from the cocoa IIS, focusing on key aspects of Natural Capital (NC).

## Key Points - Sustainability is one of four key enablers for delivering Days Group's Strategic Plan. - The company reports on sustainability goals in its Annual Reports, using the GRI framework and incorporating stakeholder focus areas. - Days Group adopts a Capitals approach, reporting on Manufactured, Human, Social, Natural, Intangible, and Intellectual Capital. - The Finance for Sustainability Function developed the Integrated Impact Statement (IIS) for multi-capital accounting. - In 2020, the IIS was developed for the cocoa sustainability strategy and real estate projects, with insights on Natural Capital presented in the Annual Report. This demonstrates Days Group's comprehensive approach to integrating sustainability into its strategic planning, reporting, and decision-making processes, aligning with industry best practices and stakeholder expectations.