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The Co-operative Group has revealed details of a recent programme to integrate the supply chain of Somerfield – the food retail business acquired by The Co-operative Group in 2009.

Global advisory firm Deloitte is teaming with the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), the Pacific Institute and the German International Development Agency (GIZ) to develop the CEO Water Mandate Water Action Hub.

Walmart’s chief of global sourcing has announced plans to step aside next year as the retail giant readies itself for a personnel shakeup.

JSW Steel, the third largest steel producer in India by capacity, has announced that it may have to shut its key plant in Karnataka if supplies of iron ore did not improve after it missed its output forecast for FY12.

The British regional organisation of the Bosch Group has signed a five-year agreement, worth in excess of £10m, to outsource warehousing and distribution of the lawn and garden product division of Bosch Power Tools in the UK.

Mars has promised to “explore how best to scale up” its purchases of Fairtrade cocoa over the long term.

Almost forty years old, radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have a great future behind them. How so? Because-year after year-supply chain experts and analysts invariably declare that RFID’s moment of destiny is about to arrive.

Boots, the UK high street pharmaceutical chain, has announced that since implementing a product sustainability process in 2009 it has reduced annual packaging costs in its supply chain by £1.3m and reduced packaging on its Christmas lines by 1,400 ton…

Carbon performance is expected to become a critical factor in supplier selection for a full half of companies, according to a recent survey.

Representatives of suppliers to the world’s third-largest retailer, Tesco, have hit back at its chief executive who has said that he expects suppliers to shoulder some of the burden of a £500m price-cut pledge.