Diversity and inclusion

At Coles, our purpose is simple: to help Australians eat and live better every day.

We bring that purpose to life through our values and by maintaining an environment where everyone feels connected, seen, heard, and valued.

We want everyone who works for, shops with, or engages with us, to feel genuinely safe and respected.

No matter who you are, how you identify or where you come from, you are welcome at our table.

Coles’ Diversity and Inclusion Strategy centres on five pillars, Cultural Diversity, Pride, Gender Equity, Indigenous Engagement and Accessibility, to foster inclusive leadership, workplaces, communities and customer experiences

Our Diversity and Inclusion strategy

Across five key pillars, our FY24–FY27 Diversity and Inclusion Strategy lays out 10 commitments.​

These commitments are designed to increase the diversity of our workforce and leadership; continue to build inclusive workplaces and stores; and amplify our impact through best practice external benchmarking, partnerships, community, and supplier engagement.​

Our 10 Diversity and Inclusion commitments:

  • ​Team members genuinely show support for the equality and inclusion of others. ​
  • Increase the participation of under- represented culturally diverse team members in leadership roles​
  • Sustain 40/40/201 in our leadership population.​
  • Sustain 40/40/201 on the Board.​
  • Maintain pay parity and reduce the gender pay gap.​
  • Increase the engagement and workforce participation of team members with a disability.​
  • Provide an improved accessible customer experience across online and in-store.​
  • Achieve Platinum in the AWEI.​
  • Maintain above 3.2% Indigenous workforce representation and ensure a focus on long term, meaningful leadership pathways for Indigenous team members throughout our business.​
  • Achieve endorsement of a Reconciliation Action Plan from Reconciliation Australia.​

Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)

We have complied with our reporting requirements under the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth) for the 2026 submission period. You can find more information in the links below. These reports, generated by WGEA, contain Coles' workplace profile and management statistics that were lodged to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for the 2025-26 reporting period.

1 40/40/20 is 40% men, 40% women and 20% of any gender