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How We’re Doing
Our commitment
Ensure ethical and sustainable sourcing
By 2010 we will maintain ethical sourcing standards and develop sustainable agriculture programmes
- Working to ensure our suppliers and our own Cadbury manufacturing sites meet our ethical sourcing standards
- Sustainably sourcing at least half of our key agricultural materials, such as cocoa, sugar, palm oil and gum arabic, for core brands
What’s good
- The launch of Cadbury Cocoa Partnership
- Our coss-industry engagement on ethical sourcing is ongoing. We are members of SEDEX and the cross-industry forum AIM-PROGRESS
- We’re working to ensure all key suppliers acknowledge our ethical sourcing standards
- We are developing sustainable sourcing action plans for key ingredients (based on importance, likelihood of issues and our ability to have an impact)
- We have a sustainable sourcing assessment toolkit developed with input from industry experts and piloted with Sugar in Swaziland and mint in the US, then implemented on the ground with mint in India and sugar in Mexico
Still to do
- All key suppliers are not yet fully engaged with SEDEX
Testimonials
"Britain's most trusted brands"
Marketing Week, 5 June, 2008
"Cadbury sweetens the conservation pill"
The Telegraph, 23 November, 2007
"Cadbury is developing the business environment as such. They are not just growing their company but they are developing the society and the business in which they work. The Ethical Standard is similar to the ISO certification which we have done, but it focuses on the humanitarian aspect and it will definitely help our employees to work better."
Mr.Sekhar BiswasRiddhi, Manager QA Siddhi Gluco Biols Ltd.
It is an incredible experience to be part of Cadbury’s Ethical Sourcing Audit (ESA). Through ESA, we could imbibe international standards and ethics into many spheres of our Management, especially the Human Resource Management areas. In-depth audit of the working condition of the staff and workers and related humanitarian issues facilitated us come closure to the workforce taking our cordial and harmonious relationship to a new level.
It also prompted us to upgrade ourselves and provide a better congenial working environment to the workforce and other stakeholders coming into in our premises.
Congratulations to Cadbury and its ESA Team.
Dr.V.J.Mathew, Managing Director, Veepee Industries Ltd, Ogun State, Nigeria
"We now know that Cadbury is not a separate company, but it is a part of our company. We feel that Cadbury stands side by side with its suppliers"
Nicholas Piramal QA manager M/s. Positive Packaging Industries LTD
"Thank you for your reply. I am encouraged to know that your are part of RSPO and that using sustainable palm oil is important to your company. It does matter to me, and I'm glad it matters to you, also."
A Consumer
"I appreciate your response to the petition, and am grateful to hear of your work to help the planet by using sustainable palm oil sources. Hopefully many other companies will do the same."
A Consumer