Ethical sourcing

Wesfarmers businesses source products for sale from many regions other than Australasia, particularly in south and east Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.

Consistent with the company’s values, our purchasing policies deal with common themes such as child labour, wage rates and health and safety.

Several highlights during the year included:

  • Coles added eight Fairtrade tea and coffee lines to its product range, helping growers in countries such as India, Peru, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Ethiopia;
  • Target has a formal Ethical Sourcing Code and conducted or subscribed to 243 factory audits in Asia and the sub-continent during the year;
  • Bunnings made deeper progress on timber procurement in Australia with more than 99 per cent of timber products now sourced from low risk plantations or other verified legal or sustainable forest operations;
  • Industrial and Safety audits all Asian suppliers of its own brand products;
  • CSBP is working on technology to broaden phosphate rock supply options for superphosphate manufacture; and
  • Suppliers responsible for 38 per cent of our purchases are engaged in our ethical sourcing programs.

Coles added eight Fairtrade tea and coffee lines to its product range

Energy efficiency

Packaging reduction

Community partnerships

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