At 3 Wise Men we follow the good buggers rule. This means not only hiring good buggers, working with good buggers and celebrating good buggers in our advertising but also being good buggers ourselves. We genuinely want to do the right thing by the people who supply product to us and work in the factories that these suppliers operate.
We get the impact of our purchasing decisions on people’s lives. So, we’ve given complacency the boot and have taken the first steps toward providing more visibility around the way we work with our suppliers. We’re the first to admit we don’t know everything in this field, so we’ve contracted an ethical sourcing specialist to guide us on this journey. Here’s what we’re up to.
Supplier Relationships
We have a handful of key long-term suppliers, some of which we have worked with from the start. They’re good buggers and to us they are critical business partners. In order to nurture and maintain this strong working relationship we conduct twice yearly visits where we discuss operational topics, product ranges and review code of compliance performance. We use these meetings as an opportunity to discuss third party audits and remediation plans where necessary.
