Change does not happen overnight. The road to improvement can be long and the change takes place mainly through long-term cooperation. To many it seems impossible to deal with poor working conditions in the supply chain. IEH -Ethical Trading Initiative Norway's mission is to do the work of ethical trade feasible.
It is important that trade is done in such a way that others are not paying the price for your profit. Therefore, IEH wants to ensure that goods purchased by Norwegian companies, organizations or public sector is made in accordance with internationally recognized labor standards and environmental considerations.
It's about doing business ethically feasible. For there is much good will and great interest in setting ethical standards among both private and public sectors.
Further down on this page you will find stories and how Norwegian companies are working on improvements in their supply chains.
All year round, happy hikers, frequent or avid sports enthusiasts liven up forests, skiing tracks, mountains, and walking trails. Many of them clad in sport gears from the well-known sport equipment dealer Swix. It is perhaps less known that Swix has...
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The cocoa that Nidar uses in its chocolates comes from small, family-run cocoa farms in West Africa. In general, the cocoa sector faces serious challenges – including poverty, lack of agricultural expertise, child labour and soil depletion. Nidar has...
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A supplier of environmentally friendly, reusable shopping bags for the retail and corporate markets. We offer tailor-made products to fit the needs of the individual customer. Our products are made in China. Since the company was founded in 2007, our...
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Ethical trade is part of the business concept of the Pierre Robert Group (PRG) and is thus incorporated into the work of all the departments in the company. This incorporation is in large part due to the management’s commitment to ethical trade. In o...
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FairPlay design’s aim is to show consumers that they have a genuine alternative in ethically produced products available in most product categories. We offer a wide range of high-quality and innovatively designed products from developing countries. O...
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IKEA’s supplier code of conduct, “The IKEA Way on Purchasing Home Furnishing Products” (IWAY), describes what suppliers can expect of IKEA and moreover what IKEA requires from them. IWAY was introduced in 2000, and ever since additional IWAY document...
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Bama is Norway’s leading distributor of fruit and vegetables and purchases a great deal of its produce from South Africa. In 2007, Bama defined a number of objectives relating to ethical trade. One of these state that in the period 2009–2011, Bama is...
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The project was a response to a request from our Chinese suppliers of pots and ceramics for greater predictability, i.e. that orders are placed well in advance of the delivery date so that the factories can plan their production and resource use more...
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The Euro Sko Group joined as a member of the IEH- Ethical Trading Initiative Norway in 2004. In 2009, the group established a separate CSR department, in which two employees are responsible for implementing and further developing a Sustainable Busine...
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After working with our suppliers, we have realized that a signature confirming their intention to comply with our code of conduct is often without substance. Good relationships are more important for making lasting, constructive changes in working an...
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In 2007, Beer Sten supplied granite for the millennium site in the town of Stavanger. During the process, the Indian supplier was accused of using child labour. We doubted the truth of the accusations, as we had been working closely with the supplier...
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Bama is Norway’s leading distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables and purchases a great deal of its produce from Latin America. In 2004, Bama considered purchasing bananas from Ecuador, which was to be a new sourcing country for the company. Bama co...
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