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Nike Publishes List of Global Contract Factories in Push for
Greater Transparency and Collaboration to Improve Footwear and Apparel Industry
Labor Conditions
Move Coincides with Release of Company's Second Corporate Responsibility Report
Highlighting Programs, Progress and Challenges Around Contract Factories,
Employees, Environment and Community Investment
BEAVERTON, Ore., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a move toward greater
industry transparency and collaboration, Nike, Inc. today voluntarily
disclosed, in conjunction with the release of its new corporate responsibility
report, the names and locations of the more than 700 active contract factories
currently making Nike-branded products worldwide. Both the contract factory
list and the report are publicly available on the company's website,
http://www.nikeresponsibility.com/.
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Nike becomes the first major company in the global footwear and apparel
industries to disclose publicly its contract supplier base. This level of
transparency is something trade unions and non-governmental organizations have
been asking of many major companies to bring greater visibility to
industry-wide conditions and to support collaborative efforts to resolve
systemic labor, health and safety challenges in contract factories.
Nike's rationale for deciding to disclose its contract factory base is that the
potential benefits to the industry and factory workers significantly outweigh
the possible competitive risks of revealing the contract factories that produce
the company's Nike-branded products.
"We hope that full disclosure, if also followed by other companies, will lead
to more sharing of industry monitoring and resources for factory monitoring and
remediation, where legal," said Hannah Jones, Nike's vice president of
corporate responsibility. "The current system has to evolve fundamentally to
create broad, sustainable change for factory workers. The goal is for greater
transparency and collaboration to help everyone devote more time to promoting
the remediation of compliance issues by factories rather than just uncovering
them."
Nike's new corporate responsibility report is its first since October 2001. In
October 2002, the company decided to stop reporting its efforts while
petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Kasky v. Nike First Amendment
case. The case was settled in September 2003.
"We've been fairly quiet for the past three years in corporate responsibility
because of the Kasky lawsuit, but our public silence should not be interpreted
as a sign of inaction," said Nike Founder and Chairman Philip H. Knight. "We've
been hard at work, so we're using this report to play a little catch-up and
draw a more complete picture of where we're at. It makes for a long report, but
I urge you to read it from cover to cover to see the progress we've made and
the challenges and opportunities that remain."
The 108-page report provides a comprehensive review of Nike's corporate
responsibility priorities, programs, progress and challenges. Areas covered
include contract factory labor conditions, the company's employee benefits and
diversity programs, environmental initiatives and community investment. The
report, which primarily covers Nike's activities in its 2004 fiscal year (June
1, 2003 - May 31, 2004), relies heavily on the guidelines issued by the Global
Reporting Initiative.
Report Review Committee
For advice in preparing the report, Nike invited experts from the trade union,
NGO, academic, investor and business communities, acting in their capacities as
individuals, to serve on a Report Review Committee. Chaired by Ceres, a
coalition of investment funds, environmental organizations and public interest
groups, the committee provided feedback that helped establish the scope,
coverage and focus for the company's report. The committee's unedited comments
on the content of the report and the reporting process are included in the
report.
The Committee's statement says in part, "We recognize Nike for this candid and
comprehensive report ... The report's candor on the significant challenges of
addressing labor standards within its global supply chain is welcome, and may
facilitate discussion on how to tackle these challenges. While noting that
monitoring is not a sufficient or long-term solution to raising labor
standards, the report presents Nike's extensive and evolving efforts to manage
monitoring, integrate compliance into its business strategy through the
Balanced Scorecard, and pursue multi-stakeholder initiatives that could lead to
more systemic industry-wide improvements."
The Review Committee also provided some recommendations for further
improvements in reporting. The committee encouraged Nike to report its progress
as it integrates corporate responsibility into the business, expand coverage of
the report to include the performance of subsidiaries and improve data
collection and information management systems.
Commenting on the review process, Jones said: "Working with an external
corporate responsibility report review committee accelerated our learning
process, and we are deeply appreciative of their time and contributions to this
report. While we've been quiet, we've been busy since our last report, and the
breadth and depth of this report reflects that. Reporting is essential to
driving continuous improvement. We now need common reporting standards so
stakeholders can compare companies within and across industries."
Report Highlights
The report highlights include:
* A summary of the company's in-depth audits conducted in Nike-branded
contract factories in FY03 and FY04 that highlight four ongoing noncompliance
challenges: hours of work, freedom of association, wages and harassment.
* A review of the company's environmental programs, including its progress in
reducing the quantity of volatile organic compounds used in making footwear;
reducing CO2 emissions from owned facilities and business travel; eliminating
PVC from its products; and recycling old shoes and factory waste.
* An outline of the programs Nike has implemented to help it become an
"employer of choice" and make diversity a competitive advantage.
* An overview of Nike's total FY04 community investment of $37.3 million in
cash, product and in-kind services to community and nonprofit organizations
around the world.
"Going forward, our challenge is to integrate corporate responsibility more
fully into our decision-making process in order to effect positive change,"
Jones said. "We've learned we need to focus less on activity and more on
strategic impact that will bring about company and industry innovations that
create long-term value for our business, and ultimately on communities and the
environment."
About Nike
NIKE, Inc., based in Beaverton, Oregon is the world's leading designer,
marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and
accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Wholly owned
Nike subsidiaries include Converse Inc., which designs, markets and distributes
athletic footwear, apparel and accessories; Bauer NIKE Hockey Inc., a leading
designer and distributor of hockey equipment; Cole Haan, a leading designer and
marketer of luxury shoes, handbags, accessories and coats; Hurley International
LLC, which designs, markets and distributes action sports and youth lifestyle
footwear, apparel and accessories; and Exeter Brands Group LLC, which designs
and markets athletic footwear and apparel for the value retail channel.
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