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Social Traders — Our Strategic Partner

We are delighted to announce our latest Foodbuy Strategic partnership with the amazing team at Social Traders.

Alongside our existing and long-standing partnerships with leading 3rd parties specialised in ethical sourcing, we are excited to have this partnership in our WorldFirstTM portfolio and to bring the power of these Australian social enterprises to our clients.

Social Traders is Australia’s national certifier of social enterprises and a leading intermediary specialising in social procurement.
Social Traders has over 600 social enterprises, all certified to a consistent framework, and working with the Foodbuy team to ensure we can develop new purpose-driven Supply Partner opportunities for all our clients.

By 2030, Social Traders aims to unlock more than $5.5bn in demand for social enterprises through social procurement and we believe, through our shared values, Foodbuy can play a part in supporting this important ambition.

 

“At the heart of our WorldFirst™ solution and embedded in our Foodbuy values, we believe in the power of Purpose-driven Procurement’. The addition of Social Traders as our latest strategic partner is an exciting and important component in how we support our communities to flourish and work with social enterprise to deliver their passion for a better and fairer tomorrow.”

~Toby Edmunds
Executive Director, Foodbuy

 

 

The Foodbuy WorldFirst framework consists of six distinct pillars of focus. We believe they best represent our responsibility and opportunity to support Australian producers, local communities and in playing our part in the global challenges we all face together.

Our team, working with our supply partners and our clients, continues to invest, innovate and develop amazing supply chain solutions that help us bring “Purpose Driven Procurement” to the front of our organisations and make a truly sustainable difference to the world we live in.

To learn more about our WorldFirst solution and the many programs, products and solutions within, please click here.

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