ETHICAL SOURCING

where Tate & Lyle operates worldwide

HOW DOES TATE & LYLE APPROACH ETHICAL SOURCING? From a supply chain perspective at large, when you think about ethical sourcing, it’ s not just thinking about the impact of the employees that are working for our supplier sites. We do go through site audits with suppliers and our supplier audit programme manages them to our ethical sourcing expectations, then follows up on any action items from those audits with our suppliers.

I think it goes so much further than that. It’ s not just about if you are complying with local regulations and meeting expectations, it’ s looking at what the impact those businesses really are having on their community at large. That’ s where it starts to fold into our sustainability programme.

We have ESG in the terms and conditions of all of our supplier agreements. It is part of the way that we do business. I participate in Tate & Lyle’ s Modern Slavery working group. This is a group of employees across multiple functions led by our head of ethics that manages our supplier audit programme and qualification programme.

I think it really comes down to having a set of criteria and a process to understand our suppliers’ business practices. Where they don’ t have a business practice, or maybe it’ s not as robust as we would expect, helping and guiding them through the process and giving them time to evolve.

182 April 2025