Our suppliers & partners
Future Homes Goal: to work with our suppliers, governments and other stakeholders to make sustainability easy and to find solutions to common sustainability problems
We work with a range of partners to promote sustainability across our supply chain.
Highlights
760
individuals in our supply chain attended ethical / environmental training sessions in 2009/10
541
ethical audits conducted by the Kingfisher Sourcing Organisation in 2009/10 (including all new factories)
Timber coalition
Kingfisher formed a Timber Retail Coalition with other retailers
Energy retrofits
B&Q UK has been selected as a partner in a flagship government trial to deliver whole-house energy retrofits in Sutton
Research project
launched with the British Council in China to start to address the carbon footprint in our supply chain
Areas for improvement
- Engage with suppliers to drive innovation in eco products and sustainable business practice.
- Improve our data collection processes so we can analyse data within the context of our overall supply base.
Future priorities
- Focus on compliance with ethical standards in our indirect supply chain, i.e. second-tier suppliers and beyond.
- Engage further with government and other partners on ways to deliver home energy retrofits which contribute to European carbon reduction targets.
Environment partnership project
During 2009, the Kingfisher Sourcing Organisation in Asia took part in the Hong Kong-Guangdong Cleaner Production Partnership Programme, a government-backed initiative to reduce energy use and emissions in factories.
The issues
Find out about our progress on key issues relating to our suppliers and partners.
Suppliers
Government affairs
- Page last updated 31 May 2010.
- The Group data and progress against targets within the Group CR performance section is updated annually. The latest Group CR data covers the Kingfisher financial year ending 30 January 2010 (referred to as 2009/10). The text is updated on an ongoing basis to reflect new developments.
