Developing a Progressive Chemicals Policy for Target
The Situation
Target set out to develop a progressive chemicals policy that would differentiate the company as a leader amongst its peers and with its customers.
Then, Target launched its first chemicals policy, setting aspirational objectives for transparency, chemical management, and innovation.
Since the announcement of the chemical policy, Target has been working to continuously implement the objectives set forth in its chemical policy.
Our Solutions
Anthesis’ role was to support Target in the implementation of its chemical policy goals for formulated products as follows:
- Achieve transparency to all ingredients, including generics such as ‘fragrance’, beauty, baby care, personal care and household cleaning formulated products.
- Pursue the development of safer alternatives to achieve goals.
- Improve beauty, baby care, personal care, and household cleaning product categories by formulating without phthalates, propyl-paraben, butyl-paraben, formaldehyde-donors, or NPE’s.
Impacts of the Project
The execution of Target’s chemical policy has moved the company towards its ‘best in class’ objectives and has positioned it as a leader in the retail sector. The learnings from this experience, particularly the imperative of collective action amongst all stakeholders can be applied to other supply-chains, to achieve continuous improvement across the sector.
Transparency
The UL systems (WERCSmart & PurView) which Target uses to support its chemical policy initiatives have been adapted to better collect and analyse the product assortment data. The improvement in these systems will support the long-term adoption by other retailers, brands, and manufacturers so that industry as a whole can move towards improved ingredient transparency and better chemical management.
Ingredient disclosure
Overall B2B and/or B2C ingredient disclosure is improving. Solutions are improving to address fragrance and other third-party ingredient disclosure.
Supply chain collaboration
Collaboration in the supply chain to address shared issues is accelerating.
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