Sentence examples for supplier standards from inspiring English sources

"If we determine that other suppliers were using a deactivated factory to produce merchandise for Walmart, that's a violation of our supplier standards.

Our supplier standards are not merely goals that we encourage our suppliers to meet; rather, a supplier's failure to adhere to these standards may jeopardize that supplier's continued business relationship with Wal-Mart," Mr. Tovar said.

"We firmly believe factory owners must meet our supplier standards, and we recognize the cost of meeting those standards will be part of the cost of the goods we buy.

"Global brands and retailers can do so much good without bringing too much risk upon themselves by simply enforcing their supplier standards, which typically prohibit forced labour and child labour," said Lisa Rende Taylor of Anti-Slavery International.

Lorenzo Lopez, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said the retailer had begun its own investigation of C. J.'s, which supplied its Sam's Club warehouse stores, and had uncovered violations of some of its supplier standards.

It's not as simple, then, as fashion: merely signing up to the latest supplier standards, buying into the newest set of audits, and being included in the latest list of ethical companies.

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A Co-op Energy spokeswomaddedded: "We would like to assure existing customers that they will not be affected by the price increase and advise anyone considering joining Co-operative Energy that we will be competitively priced against the big suppliers' standard tariffs".

PCR was performed with Reddy Mix PCR master mix (ABgene, Epsom, UK) according to the suppliers' standard protocol with betain (Sigma, St Louis, USA) added to a final concentration of 1.5 M.

British Gas said the bill reduction means it is now on average the cheapest supplier of standard rate gas and electricity.

However, when these deals end, customers can get a shock as prices usually jump when they're rolled over to their supplier's standard variable plan.