APPAREL INDUSTRY TRENDS - Free2Work

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Introduction | Apparel Industry Trends A <strong>Free2Work</strong> grade indicates the extent to which a company has traced its suppliers and established systems throughout its supply chain that can enable it to prevent and address modern slavery. “Overall” grades are not primarily a representation of supply chain worker rights, though they take these into account. Below is an overview of companies’ performance in <strong>Free2Work</strong> categories by supply chain level. Each bar corresponds to one Cut-Make- Trim Inputs (Textiles) Raw Mat. (Cotton) Traceability Monitoring Worker Rights Traceability Monitoring Worker Rights Traceability Monitoring Worker Rights COMPANY: Ambercrombie & Fitch Aéropostale adidas Alta Gracia American Eagle indicator; for details on these indicators see the rest of the report. Note that “A” companies like Maggie’s Organics score well in multiple levels. For simplicity, later pages focus mostly on companies’ management of the cut-make-trim level, but note that grades take into account management of the cut-make-trim, textiles, and cotton phases equally. KEY: yes partial no Aramark Arc’teryx Armor Holdings Blauer Bob Barker Carter’s Cintas Disney EILEEN FISHER Elbeco Esteam Express Fechheimer Brothers Forever 21 Fruit of the Loom Gap Garan Gildan Good & Fair H&M HAE Now Hanesbrands Inditex Lacoste Levi’s lululemon Maggie’s Organics New Balance Patagonia prAna Propper PUMA Phillips Van Heusen Quiksilver Robinson Textiles Rocky Russell Skechers Solidarity FTUSA Line Spiewak Timberland Tompkins Pt FTUSA Line UniFirst VF Walmart Grade: D D B A B D C F D D D C C B C B D C D D B D B A B A A A F B C A B B A D B C D F D C F B F A B C C D 2
Introduction | Wage Impact: WAGES COMPANIES GUARANTEE TO WORKERS, BY PERCENT ABOVE LOCAL MINIMUM There is no direct way to measure the existence of child or forced labor in a supply chain. However, we do know that where workers are treated fairly-- where they have a voice about their conditions and receive adequate pay-- modern slavery is by nature far less likely to exist. Beyond this, wages are a critical measure of the decency of a supply chain Cut-Make- Trim Level Inputs (Textiles) Level Raw Mat. (Cotton) Level WAGE: Min +300% Min +200% Min +100% No Guarantee/ Local Minimum Min +300% Min +200% Min +100% No Guarantee/ Local Minimum Min +300% Min +200% Min +100% No Guarantee/ Local Minimum COMPANY: Ambercrombie & Fitch Aéropostale adidas Alta Gracia American Eagle +238% because they are of chief concern to workers. 1 Interestingly, our data finds that while a handful of the CSR management systems we assess correlate with a known improvement in wages, most do not: only a small number of brands report guarantees of higherthan-minimum wages at the factory level. Aramark Arc’teryx Armor Holdings Blauer Bob Barker Carter’s Cintas Disney EILEEN FISHER Elbeco Esteam Express Fechheimer Brothers Forever 21 Fruit of the Loom Gap Garan Gildan Good & Fair H&M HAE Now Hanesbrands Inditex Lacoste Levi’s lululemon Maggie’s Organics New Balance Patagonia prAna Propper PUMA Phillips Van Heusen +15% +10-25% +15% +15% +8% +8% +0-15% +8% +8% +10-25% +10-25% Quiksilver Robinson Textiles Rocky Russell Skechers Solidarity FTUSA Spiewak Timberland Tompkins Pt. FTUSA UniFirst VF Walmart 3
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Page 3: Introduction | Apparel Industry Tre
Page 7 and 8: Methodology | Companies & Grades CO
Page 9 and 10: Methodology | Grading Process A com
Page 11 and 12: Child & Forced Labor in Cut-Make-Tr
Page 13 and 14: Child & Forced Labor in Cotton Prod
Page 15 and 16: Policies | State of the Industry: O
Page 17 and 18: Policies | Good Practice Highlights
Page 19 and 20: Traceability & Transparency | State
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Page 23 and 24: Monitoring & Training | State of th
Page 25 and 26: Monitoring & Training | Good Practi
Page 27 and 28: Worker Rights | State of the Indust
Page 29 and 30: Worker Rights | Good Practice Highl
Page 31 and 32: Index | Rating Scopes Most ratings
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