{"id":388215,"date":"2021-09-14T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/?p=388215"},"modified":"2021-09-14T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T11:57:13","slug":"rbc-is-not-a-matter-of-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/news\/rbc-is-not-a-matter-of-size\/","title":{"rendered":"RBC is not a matter of size"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-wrap post-content clearfix\"><p>Beer Sten is a family business, established in 1879 by the great-great-grandfather of today\u2019s director Monica Sander. Sander talks about how the enterprise has developed its work on responsible business conduct in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsiblebusiness.no\/annual-report-2020\/promoting-the-oecd-guidelines-and-providing-guidance-to-businesses\/#panel-2-0\">interview<\/a> in the Norwegian National Contact Points\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsiblebusiness.no\/annual-report-2020\/\">annual report 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beer Sten delivers stone products from India, China, Portugal, Sweden and Norway. The main challenge in the supply chain is working conditions, particularly in India and China.<\/p>\n<p>Responsible business conduct was part of Beer Sten\u2019s thinking from early on, according to Sander, but it was not professionalised when the enterprise started in India 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_387315\" style=\"max-width: 700px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-387315 \" src=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2021\/04\/MonicaSander_fotoMetteRandem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2021\/04\/MonicaSander_fotoMetteRandem.jpg 700w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2021\/04\/MonicaSander_fotoMetteRandem-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2021\/04\/MonicaSander_fotoMetteRandem-432x288.jpg 432w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2021\/04\/MonicaSander_fotoMetteRandem-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer Sten is most known for a delivery of granite in 1922 for Gustav Vigeland\u2019s masterpiece sculpture The Monolith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beer Sten learned the hard way with a media crisis in 2007. A TV documentary claimed that Beer Sten delivered stone produced in India by child labour, which was not the case, according to Sander.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But we didn\u2019t have any documentation to hit back with. Once we did, the media was no longer interested,\u2019 explains Sander.<\/p>\n<p>Today Beer Sten has established a robust system for mapping and minimising risk, as defined in the OECD Guidelines, and based on information from many sources, including representatives at all levels of the supply chain and local partners, asserts Sander.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic caused new challenges, but Beer Sten experienced closer ties with different stakeholders through digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Sander\u2019s message is clear: Due diligence is an investment and profitable in a long-term perspective, also for small enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsiblebusiness.no\/annual-report-2020\/promoting-the-oecd-guidelines-and-providing-guidance-to-businesses\/#panel-2-0\">whole interview<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsiblebusiness.no\/annual-report-2020\/\">annual report<\/a> of Norway&#8217;s NCP.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsible business conduct is not about being big or small but about values, according to the small enterprise Beer Sten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":925,"featured_media":387315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"language":"en-GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388257,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388215\/revisions\/388257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}