CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
MARKET PLACE
We engage with our suppliers on environmental and social matters and, where possible, use our relationships to influence their approach to corporate social responsibility.
We wish to promote collaborative relationships with our suppliers on topics of corporate responsibility, as we believe that this serves to accelerate out common goal of sustainable business and can make a genuine difference to our supply chain.
We are committed to dealing with all stakeholders in a transparent and ethical manner, as defined by our Company Code of Ethics. This code applies to all of our business units, irrespective of the level of governance in their country of operation and sets the minimum standards of business conduct.
We deal with over 4,000 suppliers around the world. We maintain a supplier policy that is based on the guidelines of the Ethical Trading Initiative, and we engage directly with the suppliers of our own-brand products in monitoring their working conditions and treatment of staff. We work with these suppliers, where necessary, to ensure that they maintain good standards of environmental conduct, observe health and safety requirements and treat their workers ethically.
We aim to continuously improve our workplace standards programme, and we work with high-performing suppliers to develop our auditing process and surveys, to ensure that we are using a fair and transparent system.
Click here to view our Product Supply Chain Policy (41 Kb PDF)
Click here to view the policy in simplified Chinese (298 Kb PDF)
Click here to view our Sustainable Procurement Policy (31 Kb PDF)
Click here to view our progress against 2008 targets and our targets for 2009