Buy Right
Join our Ethical Supply Chains workshop
Think Global is hosting a workshop looking at tough questions about the cheap food and clothes we buy from supermarkets. The workshop (on Thursday 28 May) is supported by the European Commission, and is part of our three-year global learning project on supermarket supply chains.
Most of us are aware that many supermarkets produce their own, cheaper versions of popular products – from kitchen towels to stir-in sauces; but you may not know that about 40% of supermarket retail sales across Europe are made up of supermarkets’ own-brand products? Most of these products emerge at the end of long global supply chains – but what do we know about the people and places that make up that chain? Not very much, sometimes - and often a lot less than for big brand products.
Monika Kruesmann, Think Global’s Head of Programmes, said, "We will be exploring these issues, and what can be done about them, during this workshop - looking at some of the latest research from across Europe about the growth and influence of major supermarkets’ own-brand procurement and production processes. Helping people to think critically about the plusses and minuses of complex global supply chains is a good way for Think Global to fulfill our global learning mission.”
The workshop is free to attend but there are only a few places left, so if you know anyone who would like to come, please ask them to sign-up quickly. For more about the wider project, please contact Monika (monika.kruesmann@think-global.org.uk, or 020 3751 3003).
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