Oiconomy Pricing

Verstegen – Real price of white pepper

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Company Verstegen Spices & Sauces B.V.
Location Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Product 1 jar of ground white pepper 
Currency Euro
Results This assessment identified negative hidden cost of € 1,03 along the value-chain of a jar of white pepper from Verstegen.

Oiconomy Assessment  Oiconomy Sustainability Assessment Tool v1.08 
Timeframe  Data from 2020 
Included impact categories  Pollution & Climate, Depletion of scare resources, Land use, Biodiversity & land degradation, Waste, Labour, Various social responsibilities, Economic responsibility
Case description  Verstegen is a spices & herbs manufacturer from the Netherlands. Verstegen sells white pepper sourced from Indonesia, where the pepper is cultivated by smallholders and sold to the pepper exporter. Verstegen has been initiating various projects to improve the sustainability of the pepper supply chain but has not yet quantified the externalities associated with white pepper.
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