Slide1: From Forest To Furniture Presentation by: Tony Judge, Quality Assurance Controller, Kingfisher Asia Limited, HK.
Slide2: Kingfisher Asia Limited Head Office in Hong Kong Representative Offices in Shanghai and,
later this month, Shenzhen Regional Sourcing Office for Kingfisher plc Background of KAL
Slide3: Employing over 120 staff and sourcing
products for:
B&Q
Castorama
Brico Depot
Screwfix
Comet / KESA
Woolworths
Superdrug Background of KAL
Slide4: Last Year Kingfisher Asia Limited sourced
products worth: Over US$ 340,000,000 More than 80% from China Background of KAL
Slide5: Products sourced include:-
Tools
Power Tools
Wooden Garden Furniture
Bathroom Accessories (including wooden)
Toys & Stationery
Home Products
Audio / Video Equipment
Household Electrical Items KAL’s Business
Slide6: Garden Furniture:-
Currently source over US$ 25,000,000
Over 50% is made from independently certified timber
Most of the certified timber products go to B&Q UK
Wood Business
Slide7: Sustainability is an important part of how Kingfisher businesses operate.
It is now becoming an integral part of how all our Operating Companies do business.
Wood is seen to be probably the most important resource that needs and can relatively easily be planted and harvested in a sound, sustainable manner. Wood Business
Slide8: B&Q was the first Operating Company to take the lead with a policy of sourcing certified (FSC) timber whenever possible. Other Kingfisher companies have followed B&Q’s lead, with Castorama launching its timber policy at the end of last year. Wood Business
Slide9: Why have a timber Policy?
Slide10: ‘To build our customers trust that all our wood products come from well managed forests’
‘B&Q do not want the business to be associated with illegal logging and de-forestation’ Why have a Timber Policy?
Slide11: B&Q’s first environmental statement published.
Timber suppliers asked to identify all timber sources B&Q Timber Policy 1990
Slide12: ‘Tropical Deforestation: the DIY perspective ‘published B&Q helped create FSC, B&Q begins to audit timber sources’ B&Q Timber Policy 1992
Slide13: ‘Virtually all timber now comes from known sources’
B&Q B&Q Timber Policy 1993
Slide14: B&Q announce 1999 Target:
‘that all timber must be FSC certified by 1999’
B&Q Timber Policy 1995
Slide15: ‘Virtually all timber is now independently certified’
B&Q
B&Q Timber Policy 1999
Slide16: Launch of revised B&Q Timber Policy:
‘We will make wood from well managed forests more competitive than wood from poor or unknown forestry’
B&Q Timber Policy 2000
Slide17: Schemes B&Q accept:
FSC
Schemes working with FSC:
LEI (Indonesia)
MTTC (Malaysia)
FFCS (Finland)
UKWAS (United Kingdom) Current B&Q Timber Policy
Slide18: We will buy from forests and suppliers showing commitment to FSC certification
B&Q Current B&Q Timber Policy
Slide19: B&Q (UK) buy timber products from:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Canada, New York State, Bolivia, S. Africa, Solomon Isles, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom and China. Current B&Q Timber Policy
Slide20: B&Q (China) Importing only FSC timber from 2002
Introduced FSC own brand flooring in Yanpu Store,
Shanghai
Working with vendors to develop sustainable
timber products
Slide21: The Future 2002/2003
Kingfisher will more than double its
direct sourcing programme from China