who's aligned?

Apparel Brands
& retailers

Since 2016, when the coalition first developed the Transparency Pledge and began outreach, numerous companies have committed to and implemented the Pledge standard. The status of company commitments and implementation is captured in the tables below.

Aligned or committed

Name	HQ	Factory name	Parent company	Product type	Worker numbers	OAR	RBI membership
adidas	Germany	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC, PST
Alchemist	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
Allshoes	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓
ASICS Corporation	Japan	✓	✓	✓	✓		SAC
ASOS	UK	✓	Committed to alignment in 2020	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
Babyface	Netherlands	✓	Commited	Committed	Committed	✓	AGT
Barbour	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓
Basic Pleasure Mode	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Bel&Bo	Belgium	✓	✓	✓	✓		FWF
Benetton	Italy	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Bestseller	Denmark	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
C&A	Netherlands	✓	Committed to alignment in 2020	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI, PST, AGT
Claes Retail Group (JBC, Mayerline, CKS)	Belgium	✓	✓	✓	✓		FWF, PST
Clarks	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Colosseum Athletics	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
Columbia	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Cotton On	Australia	✓	✓	✓	✓
Damson Madder	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dare to Be (Marlies Dekkers)	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
De Bijenkorf	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, SAC
Deckers Brands (UGG, HOKA, TEVA, Sanuk, KOOLABURRA)	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ducky Dons Nederland BV	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
Eileen Fisher Inc.	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
ELK	Australia	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Esprit	Germany	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, SAC, amfori, FLA, PST
Essenza Home	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
Everlane	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Fanatics	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA
Femme Luxe	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fruit of the Loom	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, amfori
G-Star	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, SAC
Gap Inc	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
Gildan	Canada	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
Gorewear	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA
Gymshark	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC
H&M Group	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI, PST
Hanesbrands Inc.	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA, SAC
Helly Hansen AS	Norway	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
HEMA	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, amfori
KappAhl	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
Kings of Indigo	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FWF, AGT
Kontoor Brands	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Kuyichi	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
L. Ten Cate	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, amfori
L2 Brands	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
Lacoste	France	✓	✓	✓	✓
Levis	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Lindex	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓		ETI
Lululemon	Canada	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Missguided	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓		ETI
Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)	Canada	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC, FWF
N Brown	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	ETI
NA-KD	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, amfori
New Balance	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC
New Era Cap Co.	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
New Girl Order	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
New Look	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEXT	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	ETI
Nike	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC
Nordstrom	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Nudie Jeans	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FWF
O'Neill	Netherlands	✓	Commited	✓	✓	✓	AGT, amfori
Okimono	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
PANGAIA	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Patagonia	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC
Pentland Brands	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
Prana	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
Pretty Lavish	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Prénatal Moeder en Kind B.V.	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, amfori
PVH Corporation	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC
Ralph Lauren Corporation	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Reformation	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	FLA
River Island	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	ETI
S.Oliver	Germany	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA, PST
Salewa	Italy	✓	✓	✓	✓		FWF
SanMar	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		SAC, FLA
scandale éco-lingerie	Hong Kong	✓	✓	✓	✓
Schijvens	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, SAC, FWF
Scotch & Soda	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	amfori
Studio Anneloes	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
Ted Baker plc	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Toms	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA
Toteme	Sweden	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Under Armour	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓		FLA, SAC
Vanilia	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, amfori
Varner (Cubus, Dressmann, Bik Bok, Carlings, Volt, Junkyard)	Norway	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC, ETI
VF Corporation	USA	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
We Fashion	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT
Zalando	Germany	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Zeeman	Netherlands	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	AGT, ETI, FWF

Close to aligning

Name	HQ	Factory name	Parent company	Product type	Worker numbers	OAR	RBI membership
3Freunde	Germany	✓	✓	✓	X	✓	PST
Aldi North	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	amfori, PST
Aldi South	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	amfori, ETI, PST
Arcadia Group	UK	✓	X	✓	✓	✓
Boohoo PLC	UK	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	SAC
Debenhams	UK	✓	X	✓	✓		ETI
Hugo Boss	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	FLA, PST
John Lewis	UK	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	ETI
Kiabi	France	✓	✓	X	X	✓	amfori
Lodenfrey	Germany	✓	X	X	X	✓	PST
MANGO	Spain	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	amfori, SAC
Marisa	Brazil	✓	X	✓	✓
Marks and Spencer	UK	✓	X	✓	✓		SAC, ETI
Mizuno Corporation	Japan	✓	X	✓	✓
Morrison’s	UK	✓	X	X	✓	✓	ETI
Olymp	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	FWF, amfori
Outerstuff	USA	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	FLA
OVS S.p.a.	Italy	✓	✓	✓	X	✓	SAC
Primark	UK	✓	X	X	✓		SAC, ETI, PST
Puma	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	FLA, SAC, PST
Rip Curl	Australia	✓	X	✓	✓
Sainsbury’s	UK	✓	X	✓	✓
Shop Direct	Japan	✓	X	✓	✓		ETI
Stella McCartney	UK	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	ETI
Tchibo	Germany	✓	X	✓	✓	✓	PST
Vaude	Austria	✓	✓	X	X		FWF, PST
Zalora	Singapore	✓	X	✓	✓	✓

A fuller database, with sorting and filtering, can be found here

Responsible Business
Initiatives

In June 2018, the coalition wrote to and began engaging with seven widely known company-backed responsible business initiatives (RBIs) in the apparel industry that purport to promote more ethical practices among their corporate members.

The coalition urged these RBIs to require as a condition of membership that companies individually and publicly disclose information about their supply chains, at a minimum in alignment with the Transparency Pledge standard. Prior to the engagement by the coalition, none of the seven RBIs had firmly linked the transparency of individual corporate members’ supply chains to their membership requirements.

The section below summarizes what the RBIs have done or committed to do through November 2019. For more detailed information and the coalition’s full assessment, take a look at the coalition’s 2019 report, Fashion’s Next Trend.

full alignment

None reported

For an RBI to be in full alignment, the following conditions must be met: 1) the RBI requires all member companies to align with the Pledge as a condition of membership; and 2) all member companies are in compliance (i.e., disclosing in alignment with the Pledge).

significant progress

In November 2019, the FLA announced a requirement that all of its member brands and retailers must publicly disclose supply chain information, aligned with the Transparency Pledge standard, and make the information available in accessible open data formats by March 31, 2022. The Fair Labor Association estimates over 50 brands and retailers will be required to follow this new policy and, from April 2022, may be subject to a special board review if they do not comply.

some progress

Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textiles (AGT)
AGT has not made supply chain transparency of individual members a condition of membership, but requires its members to disclose information about their supplier factories to the AGT secretariat that is made public in aggregate form through the Open Apparel Registry. The Open Apparel Registry is an easily accessible and searchable database that provides information about factories’ affiliation to brands and RBIs.

little progress

The UK Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
The ETI does not make publicly available even an aggregate list of production locations of all its members. The UK ETI appears to be considering tier-1 supply chain disclosure as a requirement for only its upper levels of membership. In late October 2019 the ETI stated that their transparency recommendations would be implemented from October 2020 and spanned three areas, including “ETI members’ own transparency.” However, the ETI declined to provide other details, and without more information the coalition is unable to assess the potential impact of ETI’s decisions for its corporate members in the apparel industry.

The Fair Wear Foundation (FWF)
The FWF committed to make available on its website a searchable database of manufacturing units (aggregate only) that its corporate members disclose to the FWF secretariat. The FWF stated that this aggregate database would reveal data as required in the Transparency Pledge standard and that it was expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2020. But at the end of 2020 the database only included 10% of their facilities. The FWF also outlined plans to make available a standalone aggregate list of information about all "disclosed factories" of FWF corporate members. However, the FWF also wrote that it would allow its corporate members to opt out of having information about their supplier factories appear in the searchable database and the standalone aggregate list.

German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST)
the Partnership has published an initial aggregated list of suppliers with a total of around 6,900 production facilities from 23 member companies on the Open Supply Hub platform. However, there is no requirement for member companies to publish individually, or even aggregated.

zero progress

amfori
No measures taken or commitments made to link supply chain transparency to membership requirements.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)
No measures taken or commitments made to link supply chain transparency to membership requirements.