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QUARTER 1, 2017

ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE THAI FISH SUPPLY CHAIN: PROGRESS UPDATE

Last year we launched our global Action Plan to help guide our efforts as we seek to protect andpromote human rights in our Thai fish supply chain. This Action Plan follows the Mars, Incorporated
Global Human Rights Framework and has four key priorities:

CommitAssess

Increase the number ofdedicated, local staff to lead ourwork in Thailand and ensure
strong governance by the global
Petcare Leadership TeamSeek full transparency of oursupply chain and engage withhuman rights experts, social
compliance firms and communitybased NGOs to conduct humanrights conditions assessments

RespondEngageActivate prevention andmonitoring systems across oursupply chain as we seek to ensurethat human rights standards areupheld including support forawareness-raising and capability
building among relevant industry
actors and workers

Collaborate with others inindustry, government and civilsociety to drive systemic change
across the industry, engaging intransparent dialogues withstakeholders and regularly
reporting on our commitments,progress and challenges.

Mars Petcare continues to work towards all of the targets set out in our Action Plan and we arecommitted to collaborating and engaging with our stakeholders in order to systematically improve
human rights conditions across the Thai Fish industry. The Action Plan can be read in full here.

We are pleased to be able to report strong progress against the Action Plan, as follows:
COMMIT
We have put in place a dedicated local Programme Project Team with three full time associates
responsible for on-going Action Plan implementation. The work of this team is supervised bywww.mars.com
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Programme Steering Team that consists of Regional and Global Mars Petcare senior leaders. Bothteams are meeting on a monthly basis to review progress.
ASSESS
We have been working closely with our Thai suppliers and business partners to trace our supply chain,and can now confirm that, thanks to their support, we have gained a good understanding of our fish
supply chain up to vessel level.

RESPOND
We have committed to two new cross-sector collaborations, which will help us to make significant
progress in understanding our extended supply chain. Firstly, we have finalised the details of a newpartnership with the ISSARA Institute, enabling us to leverage its unique networks among vulnerable
migrant workers in the Thai fish industry to improve their living and working conditions and ensurethat workers’ voices are heard.
We are also working in partnership with Thai Union, the Thai Department of Fisheries and USAID to
implement digital traceability - a ground breaking new pilot programme to enhance traceability ofwhole fish supply chain in the Region and drive fundamental change across all of the industry.
By the end of quarter four of 2016, we have also assured that all our Tier 1 suppliers comply with ourFisheries Code of Conduct, and all of our suppliers were audited against Supplier Code of Conduct.

ENGAGE
We continue to engage with key industry leaders, government and NGO community through theSeafood Task Force (previously known as the Sustainable Shrimp Task Force) – a unique coalition
formed in 2014 to eradicate social and environmental issues in Thai fish supply chains by tackling
illegal fishing practices. As part of the Task Force, Mars Petcare continues to lead the Tuna oversight
subgroup along with major players from the entire supply chain, including fleet owners.
We have launched a robust stakeholder mapping and continuously reach out to different
organizations and experts in the Region. We believe that by working together our impact will be
more efficient, more targeted and we will be able to see change faster.