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

NameHQFactory nameParent companyProduct typeWorker numbersOARRBI membership
adidasGermany✓✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC, PST
AlchemistNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
ASICS CorporationJapan✓✓✓✓SAC
ASOSUK✓Committed to alignment in 2020✓✓SAC, ETI
BabyfaceNetherlandsCommittedCommitedCommittedCommittedAGT
BenettonItaly✓✓✓✓SAC
C&ANetherlands✓Committed to alignment in 2020✓✓✓SAC, ETI, PST
ClarksUK✓✓✓✓✓
Cotton OnAustralia✓✓✓✓
Dare to Be (Marlies Dekkers)Netherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
De BijenkorfNetherlands✓✓✓✓AGT, SAC
Eileen Fisher Inc.USA✓✓✓✓✓SAC
EspritGermany✓✓✓✓✓AGT, SAC, amfori, FLA, PST
Essenza HomeNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
FanaticsUSA✓✓✓✓FLA
Fruit of the LoomUSA✓✓✓✓FLA, amfori
G-StarNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT, SAC
H&M GroupSweden✓✓✓✓✓SAC, ETI, PST
Hanesbrands Inc.USA✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
HEMANetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT, amfori
KappAhlSweden✓✓✓✓SAC, ETI
Kings of IndigoNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓FWF, AGT
Kontoor BrandsUSA✓✓✓✓SAC
KuyichiNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
L. Ten CateNetherlands✓✓✓✓AGT, amfori
LacosteFrance✓✓✓✓
LevisUSA✓✓✓✓✓SAC
LindexSweden✓✓✓✓ETI
LululemonCanada✓✓✓✓SAC
MissguidedUK✓✓✓✓ETI
Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)Canada✓✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC, FWF
New BalanceUSA✓✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
New LookUK✓Committed to alignment in 2020✓✓✓
NEXTUK✓Committed to alignment in 2020✓✓✓ETI
NikeUSA✓✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
O'NeillNetherlands✓Commited✓✓AGT, amfori
OkimonoNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
PatagoniaUSA✓✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
Pentland BrandsUK✓✓✓✓✓SAC, ETI
PVH CorporationUSA✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
ReformationUS✓✓✓✓✓FLA
River IslandUK✓✓✓✓ETI
SchijvensNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT, SAC, FWF
Studio AnneloesNetherlands✓✓✓✓AGT
TomsUSA✓✓✓✓FLA
Under ArmourUSA✓✓✓✓FLA, SAC
VaniliaNetherlands✓✓✓✓AGT, amfori
VF CorporationUSA✓✓✓✓✓SAC
We FashionNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT
ZalandoGermany✓✓✓✓✓SAC
ZeemanNetherlands✓✓✓✓✓AGT, ETI, FWF

Close to aligning

NameHQFactory nameParent companyProduct typeWorker numbersOARRBI membership
Aldi NorthGermany✓X✓✓✓amfori, PST
Aldi SouthGermany✓X✓✓✓amfori, ETI, PST
Arcadia GroupUK✓X✓✓✓
BestsellerDenmark✓X✓✓SAC, ETI
ColumbiaUSA✓XX✓SAC
DebenhamsUK✓X✓✓ETI
Gap IncUSA✓X✓✓✓SAC, ETI
GildanCanada✓X✓✓FLA
Hugo BossGermany✓X✓✓✓FLA, PST
John LewisUK✓X✓✓✓ETI
MANGOSpain✓X✓✓amfori, SAC
Marks and SpencerUK✓X✓✓SAC, ETI
Mizuno CorporationJapan✓X✓✓
Morrison’sUK✓XX✓ETI
OlympGermany✓X✓✓FWF, amfori
OVS S.p.a.Italy✓✓✓XSAC
PrimarkUK✓XX✓SAC, ETI, PST
PumaGermany✓X✓✓✓FLA, SAC, PST
Rip CurlAustralia✓X✓✓
Sainsbury’sUK✓X✓✓
Shop DirectJapan✓X✓✓ETI
TchiboGermany✓X✓✓✓PST
Ted Baker plcUK✓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

Fair Labor Association

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)

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 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 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)

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 Apparel Registry platform. However, there is no requirement for member companies to publish individually, or even aggregated.

zero progress

amfori

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

Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)

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