Our suppliers Past Plant sourcing was organised around product specifications, such as pot size, height, freight load, flowering stage, price and volume. Plants evolved into a complete product, meeting a wide range of national and international certification, regulatory, environmental, traceability and sustainability standards. Present Our supplier and product category management is guided by our strategic sourcing strategy. The aim is to create a sustainable and profitable plant range for our retailers that meets all European legislation and customer requirements. As a way of keeping up to speed with future developments in the retail sector, our supplier management programme focuses on our top 100 growers. Future Sustainable sourcing will move towards impact buying with an emphasis on the retail sector’s climate goals, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. Digitally sharing and recording data on growers, products and raw materials across the supply chain will become increasingly important. This includes information on product origin, certified production sites, plant protection products, packaging materials, substrates and the reduction of carbon emissions throughout the chain. Purchase value at our top 100 growers 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 0% 2020 2021 2022 2023 77% 71% 79% 80% 22
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