Overview

Legal & General purchases goods and services from over 3,000 suppliers, ranging from large multi-nationals to smaller local businesses. The purchase process ensures that company resources are used in the most cost-effective manner and that the items supplied meet the needs of our internal operational requirements, general insurance policyholders or managed property tenants.

Suppliers make an important contribution to our business and we seek to establish mutually beneficial commercial relationships with them. Our objective is to achieve value for money by encouraging competition between suppliers and by offering appropriate suppliers an equal opportunity to win our business. In return we have a responsibility to treat competing suppliers in a fair and ethical manner, and to pay for goods and services according to the terms agreed.

These principles apply to all purchases of goods and services made on behalf of the UK firms within the Legal & General Group.

11 thousand trees will be saved every year through our commitment to the use of recycled paper

TREES WILL BE SAVED EVERY YEAR THROUGH OUR COMMITMENT TO THE USE OF RECYCLED PAPER

Supplier snapshot
Spent with suppliers in 2005 Number of suppliers
1,000,000
and over
71
Between
£100,000
and £1,000,000
243
Between
£10,000
and £100,000
713
Between
£1,000
and £10,000
984
Less than
£1000
1,222
Total number of suppliers 3,133

(The above statistics relate to our UK operations only)