‘Be ethical or be targeted’ warning_3
18 July 2012
Companies will increasingly be forced to adopt a more transparent supply chain to prove they have an ethical trading policy if they wish to avoid being targeted by activists.
Clashes between police and angry crowds in Oxford Street in London last week highlighted the growing importance of ethical credentials, Peter Smith, the head of the working group that developed CIPS’s recently published ethical trading policy, told SM.
“Any company in the public eye should now think very hard about putting an ethical supply chain in place,” said...