A corporate social responsibility group has been formed by the trade body representing UK retailers.
The 210,000-member British Retail Consortium has set up the group ‘to decide what our agenda should be on CSR and to start agreeing policies and campaigns in this area’.
The group has 30 members, including representatives from Arcadia, Marks & Spencer, Signet, Tesco and The Body Shop. It will meet four times a year.
BRC told EP: ‘CSR is a seriously hot political and policy issue, so we want to get ahead of it. A huge number of retailers have been working on CSR issues for quite a while now, and we need to reflect that in the work we’re doing.
‘At the moment the group is working out its parameters, but it could, for instance, look at producing CSR performance indicators and at spreading best practice or advice on supply chain management.’