British Ornamental Plant Producers. Committed to Raising Standards

Retailers

BOPP has a close relationship with many of the major UK retailers, who continue to provide valuable and much appreciated support to the BOPP Scheme.

Collaboration with retailer members has influenced how the Scheme has developed, and this can be demonstrated by the decision taken by the BOPP Board to attain GlobalGAP and UKAS accreditation. Today, the Scheme is funded by its membership and retailers who have joined as associate members help to fund the development of BOPP.

Retailers continue to show their support for the Scheme by encouraging their existing, and potential, packers and growers to become BOPP members.

Current associate members of BOPP are:

The benefits of being an associate member of BOPP include:

• Involvement in the leading ornamentals quality assurance scheme in the UK.
• Invitation to actively participate in discussions surrounding the Scheme development.
• Visits to your site by our Technical Secretary to keep you up to date with developments and to discuss your certification needs.
• Regular BOPP news updates via the BOPP Newsletter.
• Invitation to open Technical Advisory Committee meetings.
• Invitation to the annual AGM.

The benefits of the BOPP Scheme include:

• BOPP is the most relevant Scheme for growers and packers of ornamental produce.
• The BOPP Scheme covers all business areas including legislative, environmental, production and customer requirements providing a level of reassurance to retailers.
• BOPP is third party audited, by professionally qualified and experienced auditors.

For further information, please contact Jeanette Soer on 01954 268205 or email: Jeanette.Soer@adas.co.uk