192 PART 8 Contextualizing BUSINESS EIUS a ETHICAL DILEMMA 9 A beautiful deal? Your work as a procurement manager for a large European retaling company that is in the process of revamping its line of own-label cosmetics. This tine is important to your business, and as your com pany has expanded, own-abel cosmetics have gradually occupied an increasingly prominent role in the product mix in stores. Your existing supplier of own-label products, Beauty To Go, has supplied your company for ten years and over two-thirds of its business is accounted for by your company's orders. You have a good relationship with the account manager who, like yourself, has been in her role for a number of years, and has become a good friend, As you are considering how to proceed with the revamp, a competing supplier, Real Cosmetics, contacts you offering virtually identical products to Beauty To Go, with what appear to be equivalent supply arrangements, but at a slightly lower price per unit. Over a year this would work out to ap proximately 200,000 savings-not a huge sum for your company, but quite a substantial saving of about 2% on your costs. In addition, Real Cosmetics also highlights in its sales pitch that it goes well beyond the industry standard for non-animal testing of the products' ingredientsagain a significant improvement over what Beauty To Go has been offering you. QUESTIONS 1. What are the ethical issues at stake in this situation? 2. Which ethical theories do you think might be of help in deciding an appropriate course of action? 3. What are the main considerations that these theories raise? 4. How would you proceed in this situation