Wilmar International Limited announced on Oct, 23 2025 that it is the only company to achieve a perfect 10/10 in “The State of Children’s Rights & Business Benchmark 2025,” compiled by Global Child Forum and Boston Consulting Group. This is the fourth year in a row the agribusiness group has attained the top rating.

The benchmark assessed more than 1,800 companies across 33 industries and eight sectors, measuring performance against 25 criteria covering governance and collaboration, workplace, marketplace, and community and environment.

Wilmar’s child-protection framework, first formalised in a 2017 policy and expanded through implementation manuals in Malaysia and Indonesia, centres on embedding protection in operations, promoting education and awareness, and extending standards to its supply chain. In 2024 the company supported the education of over 12,000 school-age children living on its plantations and provides nurseries, schools, clinics, housing and utilities across operations in Asia and Africa.

Global Child Forum Secretary General Ekin Björstedt said the four-year perfect score reflects company-wide integration of children’s rights principles.

Wilmar stated that its wider sustainability agenda is anchored by No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation policies introduced in 2013 and a No People Exploitation Sugar Policy adopted in 2021.