UK Small Business Group finds widespread 'Supplier Bullying' by major chains
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Grocer] Dec 10, 2014
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has uncovered further "alarming" evidence of supply chain bullying just days after Premier Foods agreed to rethink its controversial "pay-to-stay" programme.
Premier's Invest for Growth programme asked suppliers to make what Premier described as an investment payment to help fund the company's growth strategy and it said critics had "widely misunderstood and misinterpreted" the mechanism.
Now the FSB, after surveying 2,5 00 members, has reported that 17% had faced supply chain bullying in one form or another in the past two years.
The small business group called for fresh measures to stamp out what it says are the most heinous examples of bad practice such as retrospective discounting ...
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