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Better Buying
Manufacturing
Newark, DELAWARE 1,641 followers
Better Buying, for Better Business: supplier voice, win-win buyer-supplier-partnerships, improved working conditions.
About us
Better Buying is an online rating system created to highlight areas for improved purchasing practices. Better Buying's overarching goal is to transform buyer purchasing practices so that business relationships support suppliers in providing decent workplace conditions. Better Buying was launched during an 18-month feasibility study funded by C&A Foundation. Purchasing practices in apparel supply chains include a wide range of decisions and behaviors of corporate staff in buying, product development, sourcing, and other business functions of the buying companies, including leading brands and retailers. These practices impact the ability of suppliers to provide good working conditions. Information necessary to hold buying companies accountable for improving their practices is lacking. The need to eliminate poor purchasing practices as an impediment to good workplace conditions was identified over a decade ago. Since then, little improvement has been made. Better Buying will widely disseminate detailed data on the purchasing practices of buying companies using supplier ratings submitted biannually, and work with stakeholders to accelerate industry-wide improvements.
- Website
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http://www.betterbuying.org
External link for Better Buying
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Newark, DELAWARE
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2015
Locations
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Primary
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211 Alison Hall West
University of Delaware
Newark, DELAWARE 19716, US
Employees at Better Buying
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Doug Cahn
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Katie Hess
Head of Product
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Marsha Dickson
President and Co-Founder Better Buying Institute, Professor Emerita University of Delaware
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Najet Draper, PhD
Sustainability Metrics | Climate strategy | Bioenergy | Circular Economy | Industrial Ecology | AI for Sustainable Systems
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Better Buying reposted this
Join us again in Amsterdam next April for our flagship Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference! We're looking forward to bringing together 350 key stakeholders from across the industry to discuss and debate the big sustainability challenges and solutions in the apparel space. Hear from a range of sustainability professionals such as David Quass from VF Corporation, Anna-Karin Dahlberg from Lindex, Christophe Bocquet from Chloé, Jessica Cederberg Wodmar from GANT, Cat Lee from The White Company, Andrea Rosso from Diesel, Christine Goulay, Serena Bonomi, Naurin Muzaffar from Crescent Bahuman Ltd., Kresse Wesling CBE from Elvis & Kresse, Linda Kromjong from amfori - Trade with Purpose, Sandra Koerger from ALDI SÜD, Julian Aisslinger from Marc O'Polo SE, Nicola Torreggiani from Guess Europe Sagl, Mauro Scalia from EURATEX - European Apparel and Textile Confederation, Marsha Dickson from Better Buying, Richard Wielechowski at Planet Tracker, Nienke Steen from Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Helen Kuyper from WE program, and many more! Register by this Friday, 1st Dec to make the most of our early bird discount and save 500 EUR on your pass. More details can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dWz9HZE Please feel free to get in touch with me at [email protected] with any speaker or sponsor enquires.
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