我们很高兴地宣布，Sedex 已与私募股权投资者、劳埃德银行集团旗下的路易达孚达成少数股权投资，以加速我们的使命和全球有机增长。
路易达孚的投资将支持 Sedex 今年早些时候公布的新战略和愿景，以帮助我们更有效、更大规模地实现这些目标。 他们与我们合作，履行我们的使命，使更多的企业能够使全球供应链在社会和环境方面更具可持续性。
加强我们的战略
全球企业面临着快速变化的可持续发展相关需求，从新法规到全面报告，以及运营压力的平衡。 我们知道，我们的会员需要更复杂的工具来有效地应对这些挑战。
Over the last 20 years, Sedex has provided businesses with the tools to build ever-greater knowledge of the places, people, and practices in their supply chains. Our members now look to us to aid them across the wider sustainability agenda. With LDC, we can do this faster and more effectively. We are delighted to partner with them – it is fantastic to see Sedex’s potential recognised in this way.
在路易达孚的支持下，我们将进一步投资开发我们的平台、工具和专业服务，利用数据和技术的力量为我们的会员谋福利，并推动我们的国际扩张计划。 我们的目标是覆盖全球更多地区，帮助提高多层供应链的透明度，并更快、更有效地提供您所需的智能解决方案。
我们还建立了一个特殊目的信托，以维护 Sedex 的创始宗旨，即在供应链中促进负责任的商业实践。
Sedex has developed a uniquely powerful offering that enables companies around the world to build effective supply chain sustainability strategies and understand on-the-ground conditions at suppliers’ sites. Our members now use Sedex’s tools in tracking and evidencing performance against their ESG goals. With the scale and complexity of the challenges they face, they need more sophisticated solutions that adapt across the breadth of ESG areas and the depth of their entire supply chains. We are determined that Sedex provides these.rnrnIn LDC we’ve chosen an investment partner whose purpose very much aligns with our own. Their support will allow us to accelerate our growth plans while maintaining our focus on driving tangible improvements and positive change.
该交易由路易达孚伦敦投资总监Joe Tager、投资经理Dan Gluckman和投资主管Francesca Speke领导。 路易达孚支持Sedex现有的管理团队，Joe Tager、路易达孚首席执行官Toby Rougier和软件专家David Murray将加入Sedex董事会，担任非执行董事。 Steven Esom 将继续担任 Sedex 的主席。
We are incredibly proud to partner with Sedex. We have known the management team for over 18 months and through our portfolio have experienced the significant benefits of becoming a Sedex member.rnrnSedex operates in a high growth market, with ESG monitoring and reporting requirements increasing exponentially for businesses of all sizes. The company’s longstanding experience in developing robust, site-level tools, including the world-renowned SMETA audit, make it perfectly positioned to help companies meet these sustainability-related demands, and embed responsible practices deeper into supply chains. We look forward to supporting the management team as they build on this success in the next stage of their journey.
路易达孚将ESG绩效纳入其业务的各个层面，包括确保到2030年实现净零运营，以及与投资组合公司的管理团队合作，成功向低碳经济过渡。 他们还通过与王子信托基金会的合作，推动了英国未来商业领袖的多元化。
关于路易达孚
路易达孚是一家私募股权投资者，隶属于劳埃德银行集团。 它由金融行为监管局授权和监管。自 1981 年以来，他们已与超过 675 个管理团队合作，并在英国拥有 90 多家企业。他们在英国经济的所有主要领域进行了投资，并积极支持商业服务、消费者、医疗保健、信息通信技术、工业、媒体和技术等行业的企业。路易达孚总部设在英国，并承诺在未来五年内在全国范围内投资至少100家企业。
