With transparency and traceability, we enable responsible buying for a wide range of customers in global supply chains.
Child labour
Companies should not run away if child labour is involved According to UNICEF, 168 million children worldwide work as child labourers, 85 million of them in hazardous conditions. It is impossible to say how often it occurs in production chains of products that we buy...
Conscious consumers
Supermarkets offer so many choices that sustainable consumption is difficult Half of Dutch consumers say they consider sustainability in their own purchasing decisions. At the same time, they see combating climate change primarily as the responsibility of government...
Companies must gain more insight to know whether their products lead to deforestation
It is good news that Europe has adopted a major package of measures to drastically reduce CO2 emissions. The new laws force companies to investigate where their products come from, how they were produced and whether deforestation has been involved. It seems logical...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...