Don’t damn the code

Supermarkets and their suppliers should welcome the forthcoming guidelines on relationships between them, argues Kevin Hawkins

The Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) draft code of practice for supplier relations in the food industry hasn’t had the warmest of welcomes from supermarkets or suppliers. Their hackles have already been raised - in part because the code will be statutory rather than voluntary - but what effect will it actually have, and will it achieve the objectives set out for it by...

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