Our Mission

To bring global food and beverage supply chains into the 21st Century with social responsibility and purpose.

100% traceable = 100% transparent = 100% trusted.

“You never change anything by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller

Architect, Inventor, Philosopher

Large-scale Tea Estates (Aerial View), Kericho, Kenya

101 Partners is a purpose-driven firm specialising in driving transformational change to bring large-scale food/beverage supply chains into the 21st Century.

Through direct investment and/or strategic advisory support, we help strengthen supply chains for existing brand-owners and build trusted supply chains for emerging brand-owners.

Our company name represents our mission and values: “101” (pronounced ‘one - oh -one’). 101 stands for:

100% Transparency

We are committed to being transparent and to collaborate with all stakeholders as one community for mutual profit and mutual benefit.

Zero Carbon

We take ‘zero carbon’ as a baseline for supply chains to help to create a sustainable planet. We strive to build ‘carbon positive’ businesses.

Embedded within our ‘zero’ is the ‘eternal knot’ – a symbol of the intertwining of wisdom and compassion.

100% Compliance

We are committed to building and operating businesses that are not only 100% compliant with local legal requirements but also meet global human rights obligations (such as paying a living wage to all staff and ensuring “free, prior and informed consent” (‘FPIC’) of local communities for the use and/or transfer of community land).

Some of the companies that we have worked with over the last 30 years.

We have also provided advisory support to government bodies and pro bono support to non-governmental organisations. Recently, this has included the Kipsigis Community in Kericho, Kenya in their path to acquiring tea estates on ancestral land.