Human Rights In Our Supply Chain

The responsibility to respect human rights is a global standard of expected conduct for all businesses wherever they operate. As an international business with global supply chains, the Aldi South Group is committed to respecting human rights in its own activities and throughout its supply chains.

For more information about our human rights due diligence process, please see the Aldi South Human Rights webpage here. and the Aldi Human Rights Factsheet here.

You can view all of the Aldi South Group’s policies and standards on Human Rights here including our Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Policy and our policies on Child Labour, Forced Labour and Gender Equality, as well as our Business Partner Sustainability Standards, our Code of Conduct and Sustainability Standards, that that all of our suppliers are contractually required to abide by.

Modern Slavery

has no place in our businesses or supply chains. Preventing these abuses from happening is a global issue that Aldi and our partners are committed to addressing.

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Women's Empowerment

We support women’s empowerment in flower farms in Ethiopia, where we are one of the largest retailers of Fairtrade flowers in the UK.

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Safety In Bangladesh

We are committed to human rights and fair labour practices and expect all people in our supply chains to be treated with fairness, respect, and dignity.

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Key Progress Since 2020

1

In February 2020 we won the Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award and have been recognised for taking positive steps towards tackling modern slavery.

2

In 2021, we delivered extensive training on modern slavery to both our own employees and our suppliers. This included partnering with the Slave-Free Alliance to create a modern slavery e-learning module for our colleagues outlining our ethical requirements, and delivering modern slavery awareness raising training for our produce buying teams.

3

In 2022, Aldi UK and Ireland took a targeted approach to modern slavery, focusing on areas of our business and our supply chain where the level of risk was highest; this included Logistics, Produce and Flowers, Recruitment and Construction.

4

In 2023, Aldi UK continued its strategy of mitigating the risk of Modern Slavery occurring in our operations via the provision of Modern Slavery awareness training in the areas of GNFR, high risk Buying areas, Logistics, Human Resources and Construction.

5

In 2024 we were shortlisted in the Unseen Awards for the Business Impact Award. We also rolled out modern slavery training to over 4500 members of our colleagues.

6

In 2025 we helped to build the capacity of our UK and Republic of Ireland Business Partners in Construction and Logistics to identify and deal with potential issues of modern slavery.

Our Partnerships

Awards

Stop Slavery Award - In February 2020, Aldi UK won the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Stop Slavery Enterprise Award for goods and service companies. We were recognised for our efforts in tackling modern slavery and taking positive steps to protect human rights in the supply chain. We will continue to work collaboratively to raise awareness and drive better standards.

Unseen Business Impact Award - In 2024 Aldi UK and Ireland was shortlisted for the Unseen Business Impact Award. The awards, run by anti-slavery charity Unseen, recognise the important work, achievements, and commitment shown by businesses and individuals in tackling modern slavery