New Wave Group must ensure that our business operations respect the legal provisions of different countries, human rights and labour conditions. This includes the business operations of our suppliers.
Purchases & Production
Improving working conditions
New Wave Group must ensure that our business operations respect the legal provisions of different countries, human rights and labour conditions. This includes the business operations of our suppliers.
Most of our products are manufactured by specialized suppliers. We have a wide range of products within New Wave Group, which requires different skills and manufacturing techniques. We do not own any factories in risk countries, but we have some in-house production units in Europe. This you could read more about below.
Where we operate New Wave Group is never far away from the manufacturing of our products. We have our own buying offices in charge of procurements and purchasing. Being represented on site enables us to have a close partnership with our suppliers and to actively monitor their operations.
China is our biggest country of production, where the buying office headquarters is located. In addition, we have four minor
“ The biggest strength of New Wave is that we treat our suppliers as partners. Suppliers know there is always an extended hand, which enables us to have a sincere communication. There is still much work to be done in Bangladesh, and we accept the challenge step by step.” offices in Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Xiamen and Nanchang, which represents important regions of manufacturing. Our procurement strategy is to purchase directly from our suppliers and to cut intermediaries that could jeopardize our control of the supply chain.
We have about 100 employees working in China. The staff covers everything from merchandisers and quality controllers to logistics and CSR-staff. New Wave Group also has buying offices in India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. These are somewhat smaller and in total we have about 75 employees working there.
Human rights & working conditions We are aware of the responsibility that comes with sourcing goods in countries with different legal cultures and labour conditions. For this reason, the social responsibility work is mainly focused on working conditions in Asia.
The CSR-team is divided between the different buying offices and consists of full-time staff dedicated to visit suppliers, monitor their operations and support them with various social and environmental topics. Having good suppliers is fundamental for our business and we depend on their business operations as much as they depend on ours. Hence, we care about the situation on the factory floor and that the workers are treated with respect and according to law.
Mizanur Rahman is CSRmanager for New Wave in Bangladesh. He has 17 years of working experience in the industry and is certified BSCI-auditor.