2015 Timber Scorecard

What's the Scorecard?

In July 2015, we released our first Timber Scorecard, which assessed 128 UK retailers, manufacturers and traders that buy timber and timber products on their publicly available timber buying policies, and performance from 2013 onwards. The scorecard awards each company a score from zero trees (no apparent progress on sustainable timber and timber products) to three trees, (sourcing over 70% certified sustainable wood and have policies and control systems in place). The scorecard provides a snapshot of company action across size and sector.

In September 2015, this scorecard was reviewed, giving companies a window to improve their scores since the main report out was released. The good news is that 23 companies successfully responded to our call for greater transparency on policy and performance.

We’ll repeat the timber scorecarded in 2017 and 2019, giving companies an opportunity to demonstrate they are taking action and communicate improvement on their buying policies and practices over the longer term.

Sector results

The findings of the review are as follows:

• The construction sector continued to have the highest scores, will all companies scoring either “two trees” or “three trees
• Four furniture companies have made improvements to their scores. However, 10 furniture companies remained at zero
• Three poor-scoring publishing companies in the July 2015 scorecard improved their scores in this review. However, there are still a number of publishers that remain at zero and need to take action
• More than a third of companies still scored zero trees. A high proportion (83%) of the musical instrument companies were in this category. 

Company Results - September 2015 Review

Below you can go straight to the result tables showing the companies classified by their tree score. These tables have been updated to reflect any improvement to scores since the review in September 2015. Please note that smaller companies are made anonymous in this report, and do not appear on the tables below.