Berry Global - 1792 Exchange

Corporate Bias Rating

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Medium Risk

Summary:

Berry Global often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Berry Global occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

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Corporate Weaponization

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Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Berry Global received a score of 30 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2). In 2011, Berry Global was sued by an employee for religious discrimination playing a part in his termination (3)(4). The company has been under new management since the incident. Since 2011, Berry Global has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs. Berry Global promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (5).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Berry Global will not fund, “churches, synagogues, and other houses of religious worship” (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

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Berry Global provides “annual training to our diversified global workforce on the importance of having a culture of inclusion” (1). Berry Global does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

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Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Berry Global’s CEO, Kevin J. Kwilinski, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace (1)(2). Berry Global supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Officer (3). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Berry Global using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (4).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Berry Global has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1)(2).

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Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Berry Global does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).

Board Bias

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1792 Exchange has not yet compiled data about the board of directors or political contributions of leadership for this company.