OUR STAKEHOLDERS
RETAILERS As we continue to grow our co-op, we have expanded to working with additional retailers outside of our cooperative membership. We work closely with these retailers to ensure that we are meeting their quality and service expectations, and that they are safely communicating information about our products in their stores.
SOURCING PARTNERS Our co-op sources raw materials from over 50 countries around the world. This means we have to be vigilant when it comes to ensuring our suppliers have a positive impact on their people and the environment, but it also means a great deal of responsibility in ensuring that we’re treating every supplier and farming family with honesty and integrity.
INDUSTRY As members of the Organic Trade Association, the Sustainable Spice Initiative, the American Herbal Products Association, and American Spice Trade Association, we work closely with our industry counterparts to identify and address risks, and develop industry-wide solutions to challenges as they arise.
MEMBER-OWNERS Our 50,000 cooperative member-owners are the retailers who purchase and resell our products in their stores. We have a responsibility to our mem- bership to not only maintain the financial stability of our company, but ensure that in all we do, our company is living our shared mission every day.
SURROUNDING COMMUNITY We firmly believe that our co-op’s social
EMPLOYEES We have more than 550 employees between our four Iowa facilities, our Boulder satellite office, and our remote sales team spread across the US. We firmly believe that fulfilling our responsibility to this team is one of the most important things we do as a company, from our Breaking Down Barriers to Employment initiative to ample personal and professional growth opportunities.
responsibility extends far beyond the four walls of our facilities. Because of this, we’re dedicated to contributing 5% of our profits each year to non-profits across the U.S. and Canada, and to our sourcing communities around the world.
CONSUMERS At Frontier Co-op, we’re dedicated to sourcing only the highest quality ingredients and botanical products from around the world. We are committed to full ingredient disclosure in all our products, maintain stringent standards for ingredient safety, and never treat our products with irradiation or chemical pasteurization like ETO.
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