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Kingfisher Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement 2024/25


Introduction


Suppliers & customer offer


Governance


Responsibility for modern slavery and ethical sourcing is established at Board, Group and banner level.


Board and executive level


The Kingfisher plc Board has overall responsibility and accountability for the effective management of our modern slavery risks.


Our Responsible Business Committee, a committee of the Board and chaired by a non-executive director, supports and oversees the delivery of the Responsible Business strategy.


Group level


Our central Responsible Business team, led by our Director of Responsible Business, is responsible for developing our strategy and reporting on Responsible Business issues, including human rights. We have a dedicated Human Rights Manager who reports to our Head of Environment and Human Rights, and a Sustainability Manager who has a focus on Goods Not For Resale (GNFR). Our Human Rights Manager chairs the Human Rights and Modern Slavery Working Group.


Our Group Offer and Sourcing (O&S) teams drive the development and sourcing of OEB products and manage global


relationships with our top International Brand suppliers. The teams are based at global sourcing offices in Asia and Europe.


Within O&S we have a dedicated Ethical Compliance team, responsible for implementing our ethical sourcing approach with OEB suppliers and their production sites as well as suppliers who produce both OEB and local branded goods. The team also acts as a Centre of Excellence (CofE) supporting our retail banners with any ethical issues as well as being responsible for developing and maintaining SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and work instructions so that banners and the O&S team work to a uniform approach.


Group Procurement is responsible for managing over £2.3 billion spend each year by Kingfisher and its banners on GNFR that supports business operations. Our GNFR Sustainability Manager works with the Group Procurement’s Strategy and Operations team (acting as a Centre of Excellence) to implement our ethical sourcing approach for GNFR.


Our Group Compliance team manages the colleague and vendor whistleblowing hotline as well as the pre-contractual Vendor Engagement Assessment for GNFR vendors and integrity assessment for GFR vendors. The Group Compliance team is also in charge of the Compliance training.


Banner level


Our retail banners develop the category strategies and product ranges for their own markets, to reflect local preferences, and source non-OEB products. Local Sustainability teams (supported by the O&S Ethical Compliance team) apply and implement our Group ethical sourcing policies and ethical compliance programme across production sites and suppliers.


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


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