With transparency and traceability, we enable responsible buying for a wide range of customers in global supply chains.

Transparency in the textile industry

Transparency in the textile industry

Ten years after Rana Plaza, there is still too little insight into where and under what circumstances our clothing is made. It's been 10 years, yet 'slave-free' garments are still anything but normal in the textile industry and there is still too little insight into...

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The impact we make with the work we do

The impact we make with the work we do

"Chances are that everyone here at the table has eaten something in the past week that the ImpactBuying B.V. team has verified. We found out where it was made, under which conditions and what the ingredients are." - said Leontien Hasselman - Plugge, our Co-CEO, at a...

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Supply Chain Due Diligence event in Düsseldorf

Supply Chain Due Diligence event in Düsseldorf

On May 10th we held our first supply chain due diligence conference in Germany together with Mayer Brown. Finally we got to meet people again. Under the leading question “Can doing good and doing business go together?” we discussed what we do and why we do it. Will EU...

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New and upcoming Due Diligence legislation

New and upcoming Due Diligence legislation

Taking responsibility as a company for your impact on human rights and the environment is becoming a central and increasingly urgent theme. Global supply chains bring many positive impacts to countries and communities for example by creating employment, income, social...

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Oranges from Egypt

Oranges from Egypt

As a result of climate change, European citrus importers apparently depend for an increased period of the year on middle-income-country Egypt as country of origin. Again, from preparatory work, we had found that the citrus suppliers involved were fully compliant with...

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Getting started with sustainability

Getting started with sustainability

Can you ignore sustainability or just do it next to your other daily work? Sustainability or CSR? Working conditions in distant countries, tropical forest that is almost gone (because growing soy is also very important), women's rights that are not respected all over...

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Italian processed tomato chain

Italian processed tomato chain

As part of impact assessments, it is essential to engage and have conversations with the people affected. So far, I had always managed to do so. Even under tough conditions in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Somalia, I had been able to sit down and properly talk with people...

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