• Our Purpose • Our Heritage • Our Scale • Our Vision, Values & Sustainability • The Opportunity – Bedding • Next Steps Our Purpose live well for less • Founded by John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann over 150 years ago, we’ve grown from one store on Dury Lane in London to become one of the UK’s largest food retailers • In 2016 Sainsburys purchased Argos. Argos introduced its iconic catalogue in 1973 and has grown the UK’s leading multi-channel retailer. • Habitat has been bringing cutting-edge interior design to UK high streets since the 1960s. Our Scale

• With over 600 supermarkets, 800 convenience stores, and nearly • With 29 million store customers and nearly a billion online visitors 250,000 online orders every week. every year, Argos is the 3rd most visited website in the UK. • The quality, range and provenance of our food sets us apart from • We have something for all the family, including top brands like other supermarkets. And it will continue to do so. We’re investing Bose, Dyson, and Samsung, and exclusive lines like Chad Valley. in a three-year programme to upgrade over 3,000 of our own- brand products • We offer customers what they want, how they want it, 92.5% of households can benefit from our same-day Fast Track Delivery • Sainsbury’s GM business gives shoppers easy access to the kind and free in-store Fast Track Collection services. of general merchandise they want to pick up while they’re picking up their groceries. Our GM range covers everything from homeware, toys and seasonal products. Our Values Our Vision To be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. We’ll do this by putting our customers at the heart of everything we do and investing in our stores, our colleagues and our channels to offer the best possible shopping experience. Our Values

• We want to be the UK’s most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. • Today, with one billion people living in extreme poverty; malnutrition and obesity becoming more prevalent and our planet’s resources being pushed to their limits, our values are helping us to drive lasting, positive change in the UK and internationally. • We support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and want to play our part in tackling climate change, injustice and inequality and ending poverty. These 17 Goals also offer great economic opportunity and in a highly competitive industry like ours, they make strong commercial sense. • Our values help us strengthen relationships with all our stakeholders, build trust, reduce operating costs, mitigate risks and attract and retain talent in a crowded marketplace. We’re focusing our efforts where we can make the greatest difference and we believe collective action is the only way to address these global issues at the speed and scale required. Net Zero by 2040 Sainsbury’s has committed to investing £1 billion over twenty years towards becoming a Net Zero business across its own operations by 2040, aligned to the highest ambitions of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and a decade ahead of the UK Government’s own target.

Sainsbury’s will use the £1 billion investment to implement a programme of changes, with a focus on reducing carbon emissions, food waste, plastic packaging and water usage and increasing recycling, biodiversity and healthy and sustainable eating. Our General Merchandise Sustainability Goals What is the Higg Index? The opportunity Bedding Textiles Market UK Strong UK market growth forecast over the next 5 years, with the key driver being volume Sainsbury’s Argos Market share and Customer

2nd Femal Broa With 6% e d age biased market share range (25- 54) What do you need to supply Sainsburys Argos - CHECKLIST REQUIREMENTS CAPABILITIES

Audits/ Ethical Standards Site set up • Offer BCI cotton • Flexible – MOQ’s & lead-times st • Complete HIGG within the 1 year • Strong critical path management with the ability to • Comply to a Smeta Audit – minimum semi announced 2 flex pillar • Ideally vertically integrated • Pass our bespoke Technical audit through BV Product standards/ production process • Ideally Multi product capability • Produce intimate blend • Sustainable initiatives within the site • Experience in poly/cotton intimate blends • Have experience of • Traceability processes in place through production • PSI • Meet our product specification and testing requirements, • Inhouse testing across our good, better best hierarchy Experience • Have spare capacity • Strong in house design team, ideally to have UK Financial design support with an understanding of the UK • 90 days payment market • Financially robust and profitable • Innovation in print and pattern and fabric production • Have scale/ reasonable turnover • Already work directly with UK retailers • Currently export able to offer FCA or FOB Our Bedding Range Structure

Sleep More Brushed Brushed 200TC Easy 400TC Egyptian Cotton Basic Value Easy Care Cotton Rich Cotton Cool Cotton 200TC Sateen 300TC 600TC Egyptian Sateen Sustainably (DYED) (PRINTED) Care Sateen

Thread Count 132 144 144 180 180 180 180 110 110 200 200 300 400 600

52% 52% 60% Cotton/ 52% polyester/ 40% rPET/ Fibre Composition polyester/ polyester/ 40% 100% cotton 100% cotton 100% Cotton 100% Cotton 100% Cotton 100% Cotton 100% cotton 100% Egyptian Cotton 100% Egyptian Cotton 48% cotton 60% cotton 48% cotton 48% cotton polyester

Cotton carded/ Combed Combed Combed Combed Carded Carded Carded Carded Carded Carded Carded Combed Combed Compact combed Compact Compact Compact Compact

Spinning Method Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring

Yarn Count 30’s 30’s 30’s 40’s 40’s 40’s 40’s 16’s 16’s 30'sx40's 40’s 60's 80’s 80'sx100's

Weave Plain Plain Plain Percale Percale Percale Percale Percale Percale Percale Sateen Percale Sateen Sateen

Construction (EPI 76x56 76x68 76x68 100X80 100X80 100x80 100x80 60x50 60x50 110x90 120x40*2 210x90 208X 66*3 210x78*5 xPPI)

COOL COTTON Finish n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Easy care Brushed Brushed Easy care n/a n/a n/a n/a FINISH

Print ( Wherever Pigment Pigment Pigment Pigment Pigment Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive Reactive required Next Steps

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