Media Release: Growers justified, Bunnings on notice – interim report into supermarket powers
8 April 2024
Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA) is pleased that today’s Interim Report for the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct Review has acknowledged that for the Code of Conduct to regulate the major grocery retailers, it must be mandatory, with new protections against retribution and serious penalties for breaches.
Dr Craig Emerson’s interim report also acknowledges that, like farmers supplying supermarkets, greenlife growers are disadvantaged by Bunnings, which controls 70% of the plant retail market in Australia. However, GIA is disappointed that the Report has not taken the crucial step of recommending that the government protects these growers in the Code of Conduct, instead suggesting that Bunnings be invited to develop its own voluntary code of conduct.
Read GIA's latest media release below.