Suppliers

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Suppliers

We pride ourselves on having good supplier relationships and work with them to support our ethical trade goals.

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Working in partnership

One of the most important ways we are making progress in sourcing is working more closely with our farmers and growers, both in the UK and overseas.

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Ethical trading

Our Code of Conduct for Ethical Trade covers the employment practices we expect from our suppliers, both in the UK and abroad.

Supply Something New

Becoming a supplier

We're always looking for new UK food producers, both medium and small. We are interested in finding innovative foods that are truly unique, have an interesting heritage and, most importantly taste great. It's easy to apply to the Supply something new scheme. We need you to complete a questionnaire, which can be downloaded from this website.

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Working with the Woodland Trust

Free range, Woodland eggs have featured in Sainsbury’s stores since 2004, following farmer John Widdowson’s observations on how his hens preferred the shade and protection of trees.

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Sainsbury's Information Direct

SID provides an useful information and applications to help you manage your relationship with Sainsbury's.

Our values

Our five values provide the framework for how we do business at Sainsbury's. They guide us in everything we do - from key business decisions to day-to-day activities.

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20x20 Sustainability plan

Guided by our values, we've set ourselves 20 challenging sustainability targets to reach by 2020.

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Egg tracker

All our eggs have a unique code printed on them.

Enter the code in the box below to find out which farm they came from (i.e. 1UK13823).