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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


Going beyond audit: addressing our salient human rights issues


While playing an important role in improving supply chain standards, ethical audits alone may not address the root causes of non-compliance with our policies. We are therefore initiating and supporting projects that encourage wider positive change within our supply chains.


The following programmes focus on addressing the identified salient human rights issues and seek to mitigate modern slavery risks, build supplier capacity, and enable direct engagement with workers in our supply base.


Our current programmes Programme


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Responsible recruitment of migrant workers


The programme is aimed at resolving recruitment fee issues and eradicating debt bondage, or bonded labour, from our supply chains.


Horticulture deep dive


We analysed the results of the Horticulture survey completed in 2023 and trialled a policy1


Salient human rights issue/s


Modern slavery Partner/Internal team Impact


Far East Buying Office and Elevate (LRQA)


We identified issues with 13 suppliers in three countries. By the end of 2024, eight of these had been resolved. We are working with the remaining five.


All roll-out


for our largest OEB suppliers and their growers, impacting a higher number of risk workers.


Everyone’s Business


This is an app where colleagues can upload photos and feedback from any factory visits thereby providing evidence of the conditions or any potential issues outside of our standard audit process.


Vendor Hub


This contains a film, factsheet and key documents available in six languages.


Indirect manufacturer supplier control (Tier 2)


This is aimed at creating a clear supply chain map to ensure all indirect suppliers from our hand tool and hardware categories meet our minimum ethical requirements.


Modern slavery, child labour, freedom of association, health and safety


O&S and SLR Consulting Limited


O&S EMEA and twentyfifty


Due to be rolled out to all OEB horticulture suppliers in 2025. These suppliers will be required to share with us a list of growers to give us visibility of their ethical compliance status.


We have piloted the app with colleagues in Commercial and Quality teams, ahead of a wider roll-out in 2025.


Indirect suppliers


In addition to enhancing the visibility and transparency of the supply chain, we collaborated with 18 direct suppliers and 186 indirect suppliers in 2024 to assist them in managing the ethical performance of their suppliers. They provided 99 ethical audit reports and 87 Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs). Three independent third- party audits were also conducted to verify the effectiveness of the direct suppliers’ systems in managing their suppliers. All audits met Kingfisher’s requirements.


Modern slavery Merchant and The Clearing


Modern slavery, child labour, freedom of association, health and safety, wages and working hours


Responsible Sourcing and QA teams from our Far East office and Sedex-approved audit companies (to carry out the verification audits)


1 All horticulture suppliers (supplying plants, flowers, live trees or grass) are required to have a valid ethical audit, meeting Kingfisher’s current acceptance criterion. If the direct (tier 1) supplier is not growing the products they are selling to us, but are instead using indirect/third-party growers to source the products, the supplier is responsible for sharing the full list of growers they are using to source the products (core and promotional range) for all banners supplied, ensuring all growers selected to supply Kingfisher have a valid ethical audit, and sharing those audits with us. Please see our Vendor Sourcing Guidelines for a list of the current audits accepted as well as the following certification: GLOBAL GAP GRASP and MPS SQ. The supplier should also share with us the list of growers they plan to use in the next 12 months based on the range of products supplied. Any changes to the list of growers should be shared in advance with the Kingfisher Ethical Compliance team, or the relevant banner team.


The Ethical Compliance section of the Hub recorded 1,391 views, with 975 unique users.


During 2024, we collaborated with 18 direct suppliers and 186 indirect suppliers. We collected 99 ethical audit reports and 87 Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQ) and conducted three verification audits.


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