Business leaders to provide tools to increase capacity and strengthen practice

BUSINESS LEADERS TO PROVIDE TOOLS TO INCREASE CAPACITY, STRENGTHEN PRACTICE AND BUILD COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AT THE ETHICAL SOURCING FORUM EUROPE, 2 OCTOBER

4TH ANNUAL ETHICAL SOURCING FORUM EUROPE TO BE HELD AT THE TAPIS ROUGE IN PARIS

New York – June 30, 2008 - Intertek Sustainability Solutions will host the 4th Annual Ethical Sourcing Forum on 2 October 2008 at the Tapis Rouge in Paris, France. This leadership forum will deliver new strategies and practices to address the latest social and environmental challenges facing global supply chain professionals and stakeholders.

The Ethical Sourcing Forum, recognized as a platform for excellence by global corporate responsibility business leaders, is an action oriented continuous learning industry initiative,
open to those willing to play an active role in the development and successful implementation of
sustainable social and environmental supply chain practices.

The premise behind the ESF is to make you think and learn, by developing knowledge and gathering information through participation in the industry's most unique form of learning and engagement.

Responding to an industry-wide call for a thorough learning experience a new and innovative one day format has been designed to focus on best practices that will strengthen your ability to reach organizational goals in Sustainable Purchasing, Remediation, Food Sector Initiatives, Industry Initiatives, Environment, Supply Chain Reporting/ Rating and Ethical-Consumerism. Delegates will build partnerships with senior level industry experts and engage with relevant stakeholders to develop hands-on solutions to supply chain challenges.

Early presentation topics include: "Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP)", "Implementing a Global Supplier Compliance Platform that is aligned with your businesses growth strategy", "Understanding what your workers really think in a safe and confidential manner", "How Certified Products Reduce Risk and Promote Customer Loyalty", "CSR rating information: a listed company point of view", "Factory Rating Tool", "Supply Chain Rating Tool" and many more.

Our presenters and moderators, knowledge leaders in CSR, Sustainability and Supply Chain practices from LVMH, L'Oreal, Starbucks, El Cortes Ingles, Carbon Disclosure Project, Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, British Telecom, Unilever, Marks & Spencer, The Gap, Alcan, MeadWestvaco, Fair Labor Association, FSC, Sedex, Tesco, Carrefour, Egmont UK, BSCI, SAI, Bio Intelligence, OpenSRI and many others will take delegates "behind the scenes" through interactive sessions to demonstrate their "Models of Practice" and "Tools of Practice".

The culmination of the day is a workshop where delegates will "Model the Way" by capturing the forum highlights and translate ideas and thoughts into practice by sharing and applying learning's from the forum along with their industry knowledge into the development of innovative and practical solutions.

The day will end with a motivating closing plenary by Auret van Heerden, President and CEO of the Fair Labour Association.

With its core aims of delivering excellent networking and benchmarking opportunities, and "up-to-the minute" case studies, ESF Europe will provide participants with practical solutions to many of their daily challenges, as well as unparalleled opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with knowledge leaders in the industry.


We're happy to announce our July Corporate Registration Special!!!!

Register at full price of $1295 per pass and get a free copy of the Ethical Sourcing Report North America 08 (valued at $350).


The Tapis Rouge is located at 67 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin Paris, 75010, France

For more additional information, please contact Anabela Fonseca, Conference Manager at 212 803-5304 or Geneva Humdy, Marketing Manager at 212 803-5319 or email customerservices@intertek.com