{"id":1734,"date":"2007-06-21T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/21\/retail-giants-agree-to-fair-sourcing-plan\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:52:57","slug":"retail-giants-agree-to-fair-sourcing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/21\/retail-giants-agree-to-fair-sourcing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail giants agree to fair sourcing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Robert Stockdill, FOODweek group editor, in Shanghai.The world\u2019s biggest retailers have agreed to adopt a common standard for ensuring suppliers follow fair trade practices. At the annual CIES World Food Business Summit in <\/span><\/span>Shanghai<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, chairman Roger Corbett, ex Woolworths Australia <\/span><\/span>CEO<\/span><\/span><\/st1:stockticker>, said member retailers had unanimously agreed to the drafting of a Global Social Compliance Program. \u201cWe retailers and consumer brands are increasingly sourcing from emerging markets \u2014 <\/span><\/span>China<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> being the largest in the world,\u201d Corbett told the record 840 delegates at this year\u2019s summit. \u201cWhile bringing to our customers a diversity, quality and price they expect, we as global players have a responsibility to ensure that the trade is fair.\u201d Member companies of the CIES include international giants Wal-Mart of the <\/span><\/span>US<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Metro of <\/span><\/span>Germany<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Ahold of Holland and Carrefour of France. Woolworths Australia, Franklins and Metcash are also members, with delegates attending this week\u2019s conference. Coles Group is a notable Australian absentee. Corbett said that for more than a decade, global companies have risen to meet the challenge around human rights and social standards in the global supply chain.<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

News selected by Covalence | Country: <\/span>Global<\/span> | Company: <\/span>Wal-Mart<\/a>, Metro<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Ahold, Carrefour<\/a>, Woolworths<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, <\/span>Franklins<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, Metcash <\/span>| <\/span>Source: FOODweek Online<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Robert Stockdill, FOODweek group editor, in Shanghai.The world\u2019s biggest retailers have agreed to adopt a common standard for ensuring suppliers follow fair trade practices. At the annual CIES World Food Business Summit in Shanghai, chairman Roger Corbett, ex Woolworths Australia CEO, said member retailers had unanimously agreed to the drafting of a Global Social…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carrefour","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}