Bidfresh on Ethical Trading

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​Modern slavery is a hidden disgrace and must be weeded out.  We will not trade with a supplier or sell to a customer that practices slavery.
 
To ensure this we:

• Work with the Ethical Trading Initiative.
• Promote awareness of the modern slavery issue within our business.
• Shorten the supply chains where ever possible.
• Map our supply chains and assess them for points of potential risk.  These risk points then become our focus for audits/visits.
• Use suppliers that have an independent accreditation that includes workers’ rights over suppliers that have no accreditation.
• We avoid high risk regions.
• We don’t stop at the UK border.  Our suppliers are global and so are we.

​Slavery is something that can be managed out of a supply chain, we cannot nudge suppliers away from such practices.  If we identify slavery we will stop trading with that supplier and seek alternative supplies immediately.

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Bidfresh Suppliers

Suppliers are of the utmost importance to our businesses.  They need to display the following characteristics:

• Specialist in the food they sell.
• Ethical and sustainably minded.
• Be as close to the source of the food as possible.
  
  

We buy locally, from farms, cheese manufactures and day boats, to internationally from Vietnam and Canada.  We specialise in buying from auctions across the United Kingdom and from international auctions such as FMIS in Iceland.

It is crictal that we source from the best possible suppliers both locally and internationally.