Our responsibility

As a global buying and trading company KiK takes its responsibility seriously:

• the quality of our products
• the satisfaction of our customers
• the economic success of our company

We also take responsibility for areas in our supply chain where our influence is less direct.

Naturally we are very concerned about the living conditions and the situation of the people working on-site precisely because we have business contacts in so many countries on this earth.

For this reason we have decided to create a code of conduct that includes diverse social principles which we consider to be indispensable when dealing with people.

The code of conduct is the basis of our business contacts with suppliers, agents and importers.

It is easy to make such an agreement. It is much more important that the requirements are acutally met by our partners. This is why we have surprise regular controls carried out by an independent company on-site at the business premises.

Should we determine irregularities or breaches of our code of conduct during this checks, we first try to deal with these together with our business partners - a fair approach for all parties.

In repeated or exceptional cases and in the case of especially major violations we feel, however, that we must end the business relationship.

We are convinced that we have created a basis for humane working conditions in many different countries with our code of conduct and the regular, strict, on-site controls. KiK is aware of its social responsibility and we stand by it - with no ifs and buts!