One world, one market, one objective:
Identify and work to eradicate modern slavery in our supply chain and aligning our sustainability strategies to better our carbon footprint through cleaner production processes and improve the environment of the workers and the communities we operate in.
As a global retailer of leading brands, and a manufacturer of our own Private Label products throughout the Group, we recognise that a major step in our commitment to the eradication of modern slavery is to identify all parties involved in our manufacturing supply chain - both directly, and indirectly. This transparency and traceability will bring opportunities to allow us to affect positive change to thousands of people worldwide.
Developing our sourcing strategy was key to the success of achieving transparency and better relationships with the indirect value chain beyond the factories with whom our contracts are placed. Reducing our supply base enabled us to identify and engage the lower tiers and adopting the consolidation approach, improve economies of scale, encouraging closer collaboration and partnerships aligning our shared values whilst improving the environmental impacts the products we manufacture can have on workers and the communities we work in.
We have completed the full mapping of our supply chain to our fourth tier private label manufacturing base, which we categories as:
- Tier 1 Finished Production Assembly - Cutting/Sewing/Finishing
- Tier 2 Material Production - Spinning/Weaving/Knitting
- Tier 3 Wet Processing Sites - Dyeing/Laundry
- Tier 4 Enhancement ToProduct - Printing/Embroidery *
*Transient process due to variable techniques across products.