Poll: Sustainability concerns prompting smaller businesses to redraw their supply chains

Cecilia Keating
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Sourcing supply chain goods domestically can be less carbon intensive than relying on foreign imports | Credit: iStock
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Sourcing supply chain goods domestically can be less carbon intensive than relying on foreign imports | Credit: iStock

NatWest research finds that sustainability is a rising priority at smaller firms, despite an increasingly challenging economic backdrop

Sustainability concerns are prompting small and medium-sized businesses to reappraise their supply chains and broker new deals with firms that are closer to home or have better environmental credentials,...

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