Supplier Screening, Onboarding and Engagement

All suppliers are required to uphold our high sourcing standards, while a comprehensive sourcing protocol is in place for screening and evaluating new suppliers. Raw material suppliers are selected from the customer nominated pool of suppliers who have been screened for environmental and social compliance to ensure ethical and sustainable business practices.

In order to maintain engagement our teams visit supplier sites regularly. We also assess our most critical suppliers through supply-based assessments, compliance audits and engagement through online platforms to ensure our expectations are being met.

  • 03 Supplier Training Programs conducted on an ongoing basis to ensure raw materials are maintained at the quality levels required for our operations.
  • 299 new products were developed during the year in collaboration with selected suppliers and our INNO team.
  • 55 new suppliers were onboarded in 2022/23, strengthening our supplier network and ability to adapt to the dynamic environment.

Supplier Development

We nurture meaningful relationships with suppliers which help us to explore opportunities to pursue mutual growth.

We actively encourage compliance with environmental and social criteria. We share and support the development of best practices. At the Nature, our inaugural Sustainability Forum hosted by Hayleys Fabric PLC in December 2022, for stakeholders, systemic optimisations made across the manufacturing process were shared and suppliers encouraged to adopt sustainable practices in pursuit of creating a greener planet.

Local suppliers are given priority where possible, thereby increasing the value addition to the domestic economy.

Supplier Awareness Forum – Chemileys

We conducted a virtual chemical management forum, “Çhemileys” in July 2022 on a global scale. The event was attended by over 500 participants from US, European countries, Australia, and across Asia.  This was an awareness forum to help bridge chemical safety and compliance requirements and enlighten stakeholders on the compliance standards and best practices of the textile industry.