ECOM Report Introduction

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of the fundamental rights, freedoms and safety of people and communities. It exists in many forms, including child labour, human trafficking, forced labour and servitude, and impacts around 50 millionpeople aroundthe world. The ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd group of companies (“ECOM”) has zero tolerance for modern slavery in our organisation and supply chains. We are proud of the steps we have taken, and continue to take, to combat modern slavery inour supply chains. This, our eighth modern slavery statement, provides background to our business and supply chains in the context of modern slavery prevention and describes our efforts in the financial year ending 31 December 2023 to combat modern slavery. We are satisfied with the effectiveness of the processes we have put in place and the measures we will continue to take to ensure that there is no modern slavery, includingchildlabour, inour supply chains.

"A fundamental part of our due diligence efforts is to better understand our suppliers and their sustainability practices. In 2023 we continued the rollout of our due diligence questionnaire to large suppliers via the bespoke Sourcemap platform. We rolled this out across 1,800 large coffee, cocoa and cotton suppliers."

"Key performance indicators: We anticipate that the annual rollouts of our supplier due diligence platform, Sourcemap, will allow us to meaningfully compare key performance indicators from one year to the next."

"We are excited to gain ever-clearer pictures of our supply chains as we further develop and embed our Supply Chain Due Diligence policy and processes across the Group, coupled with ongoing and future rollouts of our annual supplier due diligence platform, Sourcemap. These will help ECOM take effective action to combat modern slavery in our supply chains."

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