1. Beirholm og Creadore
Miljø og Etik

2. AGENDA Presentation of Beirholm and Creadore
Code of conduct – how do work here
Environment and Ethical issues
Organizing – how do we work internally and externally
Challenges - Advantages
Producers

3. Headquarter in Kolding

4. Who is Beirholm Founded in 1870 Family business – 5th generation
70 employees
50 mio Euro turnover
Headquarter in Kolding
Product line is flat linen (bed linen, towels, sheets, table cloth)

5. Who is Creadore Founded in 2009
Joint venture between Beirholm and Sapphire in Pakistan
Head quarter in Kolding with collegues in Pakistan – branch in Dubai
Product line same as Beirholm

6. “We activate the full potential of the value creation network to develop and deliver the most profitable textile solutions on the market - to leasing laundries, leasing laundry customers and the consumers”

7. CUSTOMERS
Beirholm:
Professional leasing laundries servicing hospitals, restaurants and hotels
Creadore:
Global hotel chains
Starwood EAME
Hilton ME and Europe

8. Creadore short presentation
Creadore Presentation

9. Code of conduct How did we make this How did we implement
PwC
Red Barnet
How did we implement
All producers from Pakistan and Egypt 4 days in Kolding
How do we work with this in daily life
Cooperation not punishment
Running proces for improvement

10. How do we secure Ethical and Environmental progress
Audits
Visits to the factories
Meetings in Denmark
Dialogue with producers and customers
Helping producers with compliance if problems (external or internal persons)
Benchmark with other suppliers -> best practise
Joint meetings with different suppliers -> best practise

13. Internal organisation for Ethic and Environmental issues
Compentence center with participants from:
Management / owner
Sales and purchasing people

14. How do we work with the projects
Bureau Veritas project in India and Pakistan
Ecolabel certification
Next step Egypt
External consultants used internally – fx (Professor from CBS, Niels Baggesen)
Training of Beirholm employees, Certification of Beirholm/Creadore, information about new labels a.o.
External consultants by producers – fx (PwC, SGS, Victoria Group)
Audits – help producers to set up systems – train producers

15. Challenges Legal Do the demands meet the local legal demands
Voluntarily contra compulsory
Ethical
Working hours in COC contra workers demand (fx China)
Environmental
How to make the producer see the advantages by investing in the environment if customers only focus on price
Price
The price will be higher as only producers with good machines, systems, chemicals, skilled workforce can obtain fx Ecolabel
Limited knowledge about the labels
Competitors do not know what is behind the label and inform that they can require easily

16. Advantages What have we gained towards our producers and customers
Local environment improved
Investment in sustainable solutions by the producers
Awareness of the production set up here and by the producers – understanding each other better
All parties focus on the environment and ethical matters and try to do better
Vi identificerer os med miljø og etik – det samme gør vores producenter samt nogle kunder.

17. SUPPLIERS where are our producers located
PAKISTAN
EGYPT
INDIA
CHINA
EASTERN EUROPE
TURKEY

21. Experience with the proces of ECO-label
Use external consultant to help with the process
When: If no chemical engineer / person with similar qualifications employed in the company
Why: Speak same language – chemical engineer to chemical engineer
What: Help producer to get correct information - understand the demands from Ecolabel and producer
Why: Ecolabel will ask one time and expect information to be given
Visit to Eco label Denmark – you and your consultant
Participate in audits by supplier
Involve yourself in the process to secure progress (ask Ecolabel about status, progress, offer help if needed)
If possible participate when f.x new criteria is made

22. Experience with participation of public tender
Where do we meet it?
- Hospitals, elderly homes, other public institutions where they use flat linen.
Until today, no specific requirements of eco labelling
What is there to gain from implementing eco label requirements in a public tender.
Afsender af tenders – hvor møder vi det?
Typisk offentlige sygehus, plejehjem
What is there to gain from implementing eco label requirements in a public tender.
Hvad er det man vil med det? Vil man reducere miljøbelastningen i hele værdikæden?
Eller fokuserer man kun på delelementer i værdikæden.