Established strong links with the global Co-operative movement, working closely with:
- Mexican Coffee Producers
- Italian Farming Co-operatives
- Nicaraguan Co-operatives
- Egyptian Farming Co-operatives
- Sri Lankan Producers
- Palestinian Farmers
Essential Good Trading Policy:
- Essential brings you products from Co-operatives, farms and producer co-operatives around the world
- Essential vehicles comply fully with the latest emission and fuel consumption guidelines.
- Our Quality Assurance department carries-out rigorous checks on all bulk commodities entering our warehouse. For extra quality and safety we test everything to twice the legal recommendation at 5%.
- The Essential brand offers fantastic quality, choice and value on organic store cupboard essentials.
- Providing work opportunities to people with significant barriers to the labour market.
Support to the wider community and causes:
- Donations of Food to Sea Shepherd
- Donations of food to G8 Meeting Protesters
- Donations of food and pallets (as firewood) to the South Wales miners during the miner's strike
- Donations of Food and Pallets (as firewood) to the Greenham Common Anti-Cruise Missile Campaigners
- Donations of Food to Faslane Trident Submarine Protesters
- Sponsor of the Easton Cowboys, a Bristol-based football team who campaign for social justice and have toured Palestine, Mexico & Brazil
- Members of Baby Milk Action and actively support a boycott of all Nestle products
- Anti Apartheid Boycott
Environmental contributions:
- All of our suppliers are required to sign a warranty that none of their products are derived from genetically modified ingredients.
- Committed to an organic sustainable future.
- Recycling - all packaging and waste from our warehouse is sent for recycling. Some plastic waste even gets turned into bin bags for us!
- Responsible Packaging - all our Essential brand packaging is kept to a minimum and is recyclable wherever possible.
- Anti-Plastic bag campaign - we can now provide retailers with compostible carrier bags.
- We have a history of sourcing of Environmental Products (e.g. Bio-Degradable Nappies)
- A Dual-Fuel Rep Car
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