Product branding based on responsible supply chain management
By greening the supply chain, Bidvest
can offer customers products branded for environmental friendliness.
- Food products – Deli XL – Netherlands is securing contracts with growers that specify best-growing practices, the use of organic fertilisers and improved water reticulation, product handling and packaging. An alliance has been formed with a Norwegian salmon-farming operation that offers a sustainable and environmentally responsible alternative to traditional fishing and farming. Bidvest Asia Pacific’s Caterer’s Choice brand has entered the sustainable products market, offering a range of biodegradable chemicals.
- Paper and packaging – via supplier partnerships, Bidpaper Plus offers environmentally friendly products; some biodegradable, some made from recycled materials and some that enable a greater level of recycling.
- Furniture manufacturing – Waltons, Seating and CN Business Furniture are greening the furniture manufacturing and supply chain, offering green-branded products such as CN’s “green desk” and Seating’s wood-replacement chairs made from foam and polyurethane.
Bidvest's vision lies in the realm of possibility
“Bidvest people put in a resilient performance and the Group achieved a creditable result.”
statement
“We refuse to participate in the recession and salute our employees for their efforts in exceptionally difficult trading conditions.”