Domino Foods, Inc. - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Domino Foods, Inc. is Medium Risk.

Domino Foods, Inc. is Medium Risk. The company 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. The company 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.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

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.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Domino Sugar’s parent company, ASR Group, integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2023 Sustainability Report: “Long term (by 2050): Eliminate all scope 3 emissions – Carbon Net Zero” (1). The Company promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination policy (2). However, Domino Sugar has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Domino Sugar does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Domino Sugar’s parent company, ASR Group, offers diversity training to its employees (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its promotions and leadership composition. From its 2023 Sustainability Report: “To increase diverse representation in our leadership population (Manager & above), working toward diverse representation across all levels in the organization” (2). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (3).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Domino Sugar’s parent company, ASR Group, is aligned with the Paris Agreement, which entails a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1). ASR Group supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Council (2). ASR Group supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2019-2021 Sustainability Report: “Our newly appointed CSO and ESG team have produced an ESG strategic framework that sets out comprehensive objectives and commitments” (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Domino Sugar is a sponsor of America250, a bipartisan initiative created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026 (1). The company has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Domino Sugar’s has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes and does not report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).