Making sustainable supply chains core to business.
Last week Impactt attended an interesting event called ‘Putting market access into practice: Reaching the bottom billion through corporate supply and distribution chains.’ The event, organised by ODI, DFID and Business Action for Africa explored how supply and distribution chains can be harnessed to expand opportunities for the poor while delivering key business [...]
It has been a while
But don’t worry we have been very busy! Not least with delivering babies, doing countless ethical audits across the world, and learning something about the way consumers think about ethical trade.
A consumer survey was published last week which found that many consumers do not believe fashion retailers’ claims on ethical sourcing. It also stated [...]
Ambitious new Nike Corporate Responsibility Report
Nike has in the past few days (May 31, 2007) released their Corporate Responsibility report. The section dealing with ‘Workers in Contract factories’ makes interesting reading. It starts by acknowledging that the 800,000 workers in their supply chain overshadow any other direct constituency; that 80% of these workers are women aged between 18 and [...]