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Kingfisher Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement 2024/25


Introduction


Suppliers & customer offer


Governance


Policies


Risk assessment


Working with suppliers GFR


Working with suppliers GNFR


Going beyond audit


Whistleblowing & escalation


Employee training


Partnership & collaboration


Looking to the future


the creation of a short film and factsheet. Our aim is to consistently achieve above 95% compliance with policy from our OEB suppliers.


Our central Sustainability team and banner level sustainability personnel share data on supplier and production site ethical performance through our Vendor Index and Site Index. These databases provide clear information on the suppliers and production sites disclosed, which banners they supply, and their alignment with our Ethical Sourcing Vendor Guidelines.


Tier 1: International Brand and third-party suppliers


Suppliers are considered International Brands if: they can confirm they have an ethical compliance programme in place, they continually carry out due diligence on their supply chain (including a third-party audit programme), and they monitor and mitigate any non-conformances found. They also need to declare they have someone in their organisation responsible for this area and must agree to have their programme assessed against Kingfisher’s programme requirements as part of our random spot checks. International Brand suppliers, and our joint venture, franchise, wholesale and marketplace partners, must commit to implementing their own ethical compliance programmes in accordance with the law and our company policies.


Any International Brand suppliers that fail to demonstrate policy compliance are removed from our supplier list, while those deemed to have insufficient ethical sourcing programmes must be included in Kingfisher’s own disclosure and ethical audit programme.


International Brand suppliers with modern slavery breaches have their International Brand status removed while they are investigated.


This year we have been working closely with two suppliers who had previously been denied International Brand status due to their ethical compliance programme not meeting our standards. We supported them with regular meetings, agreeing key objectives such as mapping all products to production sites, risk assessing production sites and completing acceptable ethical audits.


Both suppliers have now satisfied our requirements and are being supported towards achieving International Brand status. By aligning their audit requirements with ours, we have reduced potential audit duplication for production sites.


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