SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING STATEMENT

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HT Drinks is committed to preventing acts of modern slavery and human trafficking from occurring within its business and supply chain and imposes the same high standards on its suppliers.

 

This statement is made in accordance with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes HT Drinks  and its subsidiary’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 March 2021.

 

HT Drinks Holdings Ltd is the parent holding company for the below trading companies within the group:

 

• HT Drinks

• Champers Wholesale 

• Drinksupermarket.com 

• Gift Creation and Design

 

HT Drinks

Founded in 1985, the company is a leading drinks and grocery wholesaler with the head office strategically placed in Park Royal.

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Champers Wholesale

London's leading same day service drinks company with a national delivery capability, the company is the group’s flagship for the premium on-trade.

 

Drinksupermarket.com

One of the UK's biggest direct to consumer (B2C) online drinks retailers.

 

Gift Creation and Design 

Working with all the major grocery and High Street retailers, including Tesco, Aldi and Lidl, the company are a leading gifting and design business.

 

HT Drinks and it subsidiary companies has a zero tolerance attitude to any form of modern slavery. As part of our commitment to combating modern slavery, we have produced a modern slavery policy. All our employees benefit from a positive working environment in which their rights and freedom is fully respected and honoured. We believe in acting ethically and with integrity and transparency. As a group, we are always working with the local community and recruit around the local depots to minimise risk of human trafficking, furthermore we observe right to work checks where a prospective employee is a non-EU resident.

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As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring within our supply chains, we check and review that our suppliers are registered for Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS), where applicable, for VAT (if applicable) and other registrations, as applicable. 

 

HT Drinks and its subsidiaries regularly evaluate the nature and extent of its exposure to the risk of modern slavery occurring in its supply chain. As an organisation we are committed to ensure that we don’t support or deal with any business(es) or individuals that are knowingly involved in slavery or human trafficking. We will continue to develop our procedures to ensure that our supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking. 

 

This statement has been approved by the Board of Directors.

 

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