Having a diverse employee base is important for businesses, but if you want real, genuine, sustainable diversity, achieving diversity amongst your supplier base is something you need to consider. It’s got to be a holistic approach.

Did you know that 20% of UK businesses are female owned? But just 1% of money spent with suppliers goes to those 20% of female owned businesses. The statistics aren’t great! But at Jaluch we try to practice what we preach, so last year we created a 20/20 target, i.e. 20% of our spend with suppliers to be spent with the 20% of female owned businesses.

And ... now we are utterly delighted to announce that in the past 12 months a staggering 30% of our total spend with suppliers has been spent with female owned businesses.. We smashed our target and are thrilled to lead the way for smaller businesses on supplier diversity.