Supply Chain

Our Environmental Policy lists purchasing goods and services as an important environmental aspect. We have a strong history of supporting suppliers to help them understand and reduce their own environmental impacts, particularly in the UK, where we have worked with the regional government and a local university to run workshops for small and medium suppliers to progress through their own environmental management standard. We are also now vetting the green credentials of current suppliers and making purchasing decisions and supplier selection partly based on such credentials. In Brazil, we’ve re-launched our supply chain conditions to include environmental standards and run a workshop for 43 suppliers.

Our work on environmental management is just one aspect of much wider engagement with suppliers through which we communicate to them our support for human rights and decent labour and environmental practices.